Steven Wilson, Cleveland 5-2-13

Edited by AmbianceMan - May 07 2013 at 17:52

I went to the Boulder show last night, and I agree with you both. Absolutely stunning! However, there was a slight change in setlist: No Part of Me was replaced by Sectarian, which caught me by surprise. Sectarian was awesome, and the infamous chord changes synchronized with the epic light show, and during the song the curtain put up during the Watchmaker came down, inciting thunderous applause. Before Deform to Form a Star, Adam played a brief but beautiful piano solo from out of the blue. After he finished, a drunken frat boy (Boulder, guys) yelled "BEAUTIFUL" in the ensuing silence. Hilarious. During Steven's Free Bird speech before Raider, everyone was yelling the former while one guy was absolutely screaming his heart out for Salvaging, which is actually one of Steven's tracks. Why, I didn't know.

Steven did mention that he genuinely enjoyed Boulder (not to say he didn't enjoy the other cities... but then again.), and an audience member gave him a finger puppet of a raven that he sort of played with during Raider II. Also, Marco (the drummer) played with a plastic pig during the quiet part of Radioactive Toy, and during the last freak out ending of the latter.... He held his sticks up to hit the last note, put both in one hand and briefly held up the pig, then proceeded to end the song. As stated earlier, the band's chemistry was inimitable. Absolutely brilliant! Nick loved jamming out with Marco, and Steven hung around with Adam during the jams. I loved the few seconds before The Holy Drinker when Steven took Nick's bass and started jamming out while Nick went backstage and grabbed his Chapman stick, tuning it on stage. This was an amazing display of talent to me.

Great sound, great atmosphere, very diverse crowd. Stood next to a nice couple and discussed Opeth's upcoming show (the guy was wearing a Katatonia shirt) along with Steven's material. Just a blast.

Great photos.  They told us before we went in, no cameras, but everyone had their phones in the air none-the-less.  I really wanted to hear Sectarian, one of my favorites.  Incidentally, I picked up the "get all you deserve" DVD at the show and that concert mirrors his raven show in many ways..except the songs were different of course.  The DVD doesn't capture Wilson's concert experience though, not even close.  Live is 10 times better.

Going to see him in a week. Really glad, since I didn't make up my mind on time last year. And yes, I'd rather he included Sectarian in the show I'm seeing.

Going to see him tomorrow!!! But I kind of read something about them changing the drummer... not sure though. Should that be good or bad?

MillsLayne wrote: Dellinger wrote: Going to see him tomorrow!!! But I kind of read something about them changing the drummer... not sure though. Should that be good or bad?   I'd go with bad if Marco isn't drumming.  The guy seems like he did a few lines of coke before going on stage because he's a mad man on the drums!  Very fast, but precise.  Who knows, though, it might not make any difference.   EDIT:  I just read that the drummer is currently Chad Wackerman ( yep, I'm immature) for the next leg of the tour.

I already attended the show, which was really fantastic. Unfortunatley, I'm ashamed to say I don't really remember that well how Marco looks, so I'm not sure if it was or wasn't him on the kit. Still, the drumming was really cool during the show.