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| Free Mae Show = EPIC WIN.
Mae is one of my absolute favorite bands. Free is one of my absolute favorite words. Put them together, and you have a recipe for awesome, ESPECIALLY when it happens to happen at my school. Here's what they played and what they did. | | 1 | Mae
Tisbury Lane
From 'Destination: B-Sides' | | 2 | Futuro
Also from 'Destination: B-Sides'. Opening your set with two b-sides would be a slightly bad idea...if it were any other band but Mae (or System of a Down). | | 3 | This Is The Countdown
First song from a studio LP here. | | 4 | Suspension
I was leaning against the stage (no, really...any further, and David the guitarist would've stepped on my fingers every time he changed effect pedals), and I was the only one jumping during this song. Why do people hesitate to have FUN at these things!? | | 5 | All Deliberate Speed | | 6 | Painless | | 7 | Ready and Waiting To Fall
Again, the only person jumping. I would've felt silly, but I thought to myself, "Why would I stand still while at a concert for one of my favorite bands?" So I kept jumping around. | | 8 | Soundtrack For Our Movie | | 9 | Summertime | | 10 | Just Let Go
For this slow song, they asked all the couples to go on stage and dance to it. Some couples slow danced, some couples went up there and did whatever, one guy performed a legitimate moonwalk. Good stuff. | | 11 | The House That Fire Built
They were supposed to play "A Melody, A Memory" right here, but the band decided right there on stage that they'd rather play this instead. It wasn't on the original setlist. | | 12 | Embers and Envelopes
...Neither was this one. Actually, it was right after this song that the band did something really damn cool. They told us that whoever went and submerged themselves in the fountain (the concert took place in a plaza on Texas Tech campus, and there's a fountain in the plaza around which the audience was situated) would be able to choose the final songs of Mae's setlist. Well, some folks did it, and they got to choose the songs (and though I didn't get wet, they decided to play my shout-out as the final song of the night). Their setlist called for "In Pieces" and "Anything" to end the night; the fountain-divers called out "Crazy 8's," "Sun," "A Melody, A Memory," "Anything," "We're So Far Away" and "Someone Else's Arms." Due to time constraints, they had to cut out "A Melody, A Memory," and "We're So Far Away," but everything else got played. I've never seen a band do this, but it was amazing, especially considering that... | | 13 | Crazy 8's
...their touring bassist didn't really know how to play this song. They literally showed him how to play the song right there on stage in front of us. Also, there's a totally different chorus for this song now. | | 14 | Sun
Very soft; it was just Dave for most of the song. | | 15 | Anything | | 16 | Someone Else's Arms
This was the song that I called out and the band agreed to play. It was inexplicably left off of their setlist, but it ended the night perfectly--the song had more energy than any other song played during the set. | |
Masochist
04.24.10 | No, but really, I felt like I was the only one moving around at this show. Oh, well...at least I enjoyed it. Wish I'd've remembered to bring my 'Everglow' album case for the signing they did after the show.
Also, it's worth noting that this show was Mae's first electric show in six months. I was extremely happy that they played it with a full five-member band; it was awesome.
One more thing: this is my 50th list, and this is my 3,001st comment. Fuck my life. | AnotherBrick
04.24.10 | damnn dude sounds like you had a fucking awesome time | Masochist
04.24.10 | I did! Never been to a show where the band changed the set list to appease the audience...it was awesome! | theacademy
04.24.10 | i love how both me + the attractive female population both like mae. that's like, the extent of our overlap, which sucks. | Knott-
04.24.10 | so fucking jealous, and glad they didnt play loads of stuff from the EPs... but where is the everglow's title-track?! high5 on showing the rest of them how to move at a gig :p i would go crazy at mae too | Oceanus
04.29.10 | Sounds awesome man! | Parallels
04.29.10 | hahah nice stuff. |
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