Found this on another forum from their gig on 19.09.2009 at Club Nokia in L.A.
Review:
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"I saw PT's LA show last night at Club Nokia and they were excellent!
The opening band, Big Elf, took the stage at exactly 8PM and played about a 50-minute set. This band made heavy use of organs and mellotrons. I never heard them before, so IMO, they sounded to me like a combination of the Deep Purple MK 1 line-up (think "Hush"), Uriah Heep and Quartermass. Overall, not bad, and the crowd loved them. They were the opening band for PT's West Coast shows only. Kings X is the opening band for the New York show, so let me know how they were if you see the show this Thursday.
After Big Elf finished their set, their roadies cleared off their equipment and PT's roadies took over. PT's stage setup is pretty much the same since I first saw them in November 2002:
- Projector screen in the background, center rear
- Keyboardist Richard Barbieri rear left
- Drummer Gavin Harrison rear right
- Guitarist John Wesley front left
- Leader extraordinaire Steve Wilson front center
- Bassist Colin Edward front right (does he ever take off that beret?)
PT took the stage at 9:20PM. Here's their set list.
- For the first half of their show, they performed Disc 1 of "The Incident" in its entirety
They were tight and crisp. The sound quality was astounding - clean, clear without being excessively loud. If you see them, you'll see that Steve likes to perform barefoot. Check out the photos of their Seattle show at the Moore Theatre on their website. There's a photo of Steve, barefoot, sitting on a chair playing a very cool-looking acoustic guitar which he used last night; that's him playing "Time Flies" because that was the only time he sits in that chair..
The first half of the show ended at 10:22PM and there was a 10-minute intermission. The house lights came back on and a "10:00:00" digital counter ("mm:ss:hs") was projected on the screen that counted backwards. When it got to "00:10:00" we all screamed out in unison: TEN, NINE,...,TWO, ONE!.. When the counter reached "00:00:00", the house lights faded out on queue, the crowd went wild and PT took the stage again for the second half of the show. Here's the set list:
1. The Start of Something Beautiful
2. The Sound of Muzak
3. <a song that i>
4. Anesthetize (middle section only, not the entire song -- play from 4:55 to 12:10 on the FoaBP CD to get an idea)
5. Lazarus
6. Strip the Soul
7. Bonnie the Cat
Encore #1: Way Out of Here
Encore #2: Trains
The house lights came back on at 11:40PM. My only complaint about the show was they didn't play any material prior to "In Absentia". Maybe they'll shake up the set-list and play some of the older material at the NY show.
All-in-all, another great, solid performance by PT! Can't wait for them to finish the tour, get back in the studios to record their next masterpiece and come back to perform.
EDIT: Missing song #3 from the second set was "Buying New Soul" from the "Recordings" album released in 2001."
GG
