Definitely not in order, but these were played:

I Would Be Sad (opener)
Paranoia
Colorshow
Distraction
Salina
Ballad of Love and Hate
Murder in the City
I and Love and You
January Wedding
Head Full of Doubt, Road Full of Promise
The Perfect Space
Ten Thousand Words
Kick Drum Heart
Slight Figure of Speech
Denouncing November Blue
Will You Return
Go To Sleep
I Killed Sally's Lover

i would love to have heard denouncing november blue live...one of my old school favs
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What more is a rainbow, than colors out of reach.

more importantly, did anyone get any video?!

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Burn the questions. Burn the shame.

Setlist, yes.
Review, yes.
Video, yes.

Patience...it'll come. I'm driving home today & will post a thorough review tonite.

If you follow me on Twitter, you can see my tweet-by-tweet review of the show. I took one new fan, and we were about halfway into the first song when she looked at me and said "Angi, I'm a BELIEVER!!!"

I know Rick Rubin was there last night, pretty sure Dolph was, too.
The setlist was great, but I couldn't help but feel the atmosphere was off and they raced through the first several songs. They were obviously pumped up and going strong, but that oh-so-important connection with the audience was not there, in my opinion.

Why? Well, it was L.A., for one (sorry L.A.). Secondly, they felt sooo far away on that big stage, with an empty orchestra pit between them and the first row (like a lowered pit). And it was a seated show. Plenty of folks were up singing & dancing along, and then, thankfully, sat back down to really listen to the slower songs.
The crowd wasn't bad, per se, just different. It felt...just not the same as the shows elsewhere.

Now, I say all that after a hell of a run in May, and the fortune to have attended shows in the past with more folks who really got into the show. 110%. So I do believe I'm quite spoiled.

Still, a little less than halfway through, something did change in their energy, and they were more into it...or the crowd was. (?)

I'll post more later and re-order that setlist, too.

There were several other board members present. HeyKyle, thepinckpunk (rocking a homemade Team Crawford tee!), alyx & avettconvert, and I ran into new boardie spikethecat in the front row, too.

(That's your cue to post your own reviews, buddies!!!)

For now, I'm hitting the road. Have a great day.

I attended the Orpheum show having never seen nor heard of this band. I was immediately astounded by the audience's instant reaction to the bands presence on stage and realized I have been missing something special for some time now.

This is one true 'solid to the core' group of artists; honest and passionate lyrics set to both hard driving, foot stomping romps as well as sensitive and emotional musicianship.

L.A. is always a hard venue for almost any performer; rarely is 100% of an audience ever wholly there for the artist- which is truly sad. My take is that the band handled it all reasonably well.

For a newbie, I thought the show was a blast- not perfect, but a hell of a lot of fun.

Peace

best l.a. show ever hands down. and i met angie. im glad you were taping by the way.

SETLIST, PLEASE!!!!

Looks like they played most of the new album and I wanna know in what order.

PLEASE ME!!!!

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Orpheum Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
September 5, 2009

This is a play-by-play as I noted it via Twitter. Hope it's not too lengthy/annoying...it was wonderful to hear so many songs from the new album.

1) I Would Be Sad The music started, THEN the curtain came up to reveal the Scott's in his huge feathery cowboy hat with Bob & Seth also in cowboy casual attire (no Joe Kwon yet)

2) Paranoia in Bb Major (still just SSB)
I spot Dolph in the wings with Dane, & before the song 3, out comes Joe Kwon lookin' dapper as ever!
Seth announces they're about to play a new song for the 1st time. Crowd sits down and LISTENS.

3) January Wedding (1st time played live, ever !!!)
Can't believe how many people are singing along to this and exchanging glances with friends. I sit gape-jawed.

4) Distraction #74 - featuring Joe & Bob rocking out back-to-back crazy-style!
And then Scott heads to the keys...

5) Head Full of Doubt, Road Full of Promise = "Decide what to be and go be it" - sigh...

6) Till the End of the World Rolls 'Round total hoedown style

7) At The Beach

8 ) Ballad of Love and Hate
(Seth solo - intensely quiet w/ lots of respect from the crowd for this one. who all sat back down again)
For the second time I think to myself 'they are really racing thru this set' Also despite many folks up dancing & singing along, the theatre feels big tonight & the band seems so far away...it's a notable difference from what I'm used to.

9) Salina (near the end, the teardrop backdrop floats up to reveal the bridge backdrop)

10) I & Love & You

11) Colorshow

12) More Of You "I get your numberrr!"

13) Denouncing November Blue "I drove my Jag-you-ar around the world..."

14) 10,000 Words (1st time played live?!? * this was THE highlight for me, & probably "most people" too. The chorus hits hard, and it really seemed like they were trying to make a statement with this song. They were literally singing their lives up there.")

15) Will You Return (ok, now even the people too-cool-to-do-so are up and into it)

16) Perfect Space

17) Go To Sleep

18) Murder In The City (Scott solo - my daughter, her mother)

19) Kick Drum Heart "this will be our last song"

*encore*
20) Slight Figure of Speech (slower than on the single...awesome to see live, but it didn't seem to fit in with the rest of the set...or is that just because no one knows it yet?)

21) I Killed Sally's Lover

Here's some video from LA. I was in the front near the bass speaker which was cranked up high and created a large amount of reverb for me... or perhaps I was just too close. Was anyone else's recordings affected by this? Here's what I've uploaded so far. Good to meet other fans at the show.

Ballad of Love and Hate
Murder in the City
January Wedding - Removed for now

Sully,
You seem new enough around here to not know, but the Avett Brothers prefer that unreleased songs not be posted on YouTube. Not that we don't appreciate your kindness and effort, it just goes against the band's wishes to post that January Wedding video.

Sully, sent you a PM.

We started with a burrito off a truck and then visited the beautiful Broadway Bar. What an awesome bar! We played the replacements and x on the juke box, and then entered the Orpheum. Really nice seats, nice neighbors (hi Kyle and Michelle!) and Sally Ford was surprised at the standing ovation we all gave them at the end.

The brothers blew us away. We couldn't possibly get enough, our songlist wishlist was probably three hours long, but they managed to kill us along the way with:

January Wedding -- the most beautiful song. I haven't heard the studio recording yet but I will never hear it another way. Seth said he was sorry for having to play songs off the new album that we didn't know. The audience reacted so warmly, he glowed and I think that's when the mood changed that Angi described earlier. They were totally surprised at how much the audience knew their new songs.

St. Joseph's, Distraction, Kick Drum, Ballad were my favorites.

We're already looking at the schedule, finding the next concert we can go to. New York, quit calling, New York leave me be.

Thanks for letting us sign the banner, angi!

~spike~

They said I hope that you will never change
I went and cut my hair
They said don't take your business to the big time
I bought us tickets there

Does anyone else think that maybe they played those 2 new songs for Rick Rubin since he was in the audience? Favorites of his, maybe?

Oopsy, I'm silly! I meant to say Murder In the City, of course, my hubby got a nice video of that one and we've been watching it obsessively. Wishful thinking maybe?

~spike~

Well, the fact that Seth said "We're sorry, but we HAVE to play a couple songs you guys have never heard before" led me to believe they were specifically requested by someone in attendance. But I realize that's a stretch.

Blasto, please don't quote my memory directly, that's obviously flawed. Does anyone else remember more accurately what Seth said? It was something like 'we're a little nervous playing the new songs you don't know yet,' or something like that. It was endearing, and his reaction to the crowd's cheers was definitely a glow. I'm sure playing a new song for the first time is a little nerve-wracking for any band, then you add in the LA 'industry' people in the audience, but they hit it out of the park, IMHO.

Set list was awesome but my husband was bummed about no PG songs! What's that about?

~spike~

i don't remember his saying that. but its definitely possible. it was cool seeing rick. my girlfriend said, hey that guy looks famous. ha ha.

i like the song by song breakdown.