Big Head Todd & the Monsters at the Fillmore, January 26, 2019

Big Head Todd & the Monsters at the Fillmore, January 26, 2019

Live Nation presents Big Head Todd & the Monsters; with opener, the Main Squeeze
the Fillmore
1805 Geary Blvd, San Francisco, CA 94109-7217 USA
8:00 PM, Saturday, January 26, 2019

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Set One: the Main Squeeze

[7:59 PM lights down, band out]

[8:01 PM] Dr. Funk >
[8:05 PM] Where Do We Go
[8:13 PM] Only Time
[8:18 PM] Have a Cigar
[8:25 PM] Sweat »
[8:33 PM] ? (unidentified tune; lyric snippets: “Let Me Get on Down” / “Dance with Me”)
[set ends 8:39 PM]

Performers

the Main Squeeze

Corey Frye: vox;
Reuben Gingrich: drums;
Max Newman: guitar;
Ben Smiley Silverstein: keyboards;
Rob Walker: 5-string bass, Waldorf kb37 keybass, Prophet (5?) keyboard.

Set Two: Big Head Todd & the Monsters

[9:16 PM lights down, announcements, band out]

[9:17 PM] New World Arisin' $
[9:23 PM] Resignation Superman
[9:28 PM] Secret Mission
[9:33 PM] Poor Miss
[9:37 PM] Please Don't Tell Her
[9:43 PM] Hidden Charms
[9:47 PM] Ellis Island
[9:52 PM] When I'm Kissin' My Love
[9:57 PM] For All Time
[10:02 PM] Damaged One
[10:06 PM] Long Coal Train
[10:10 PM] The Moose Song $
[10:18 PM] Bittersweet
[10:24 PM] Hey Delilah >
[10:29 PM] Broken Hearted Savior
[set ends 10:36 PM; all off for just a minute]

Encore
[10:37 PM] Circle »
[10:42 PM] I Want You (She's So Heavy) & »
[10:47 AM] I Wanna Be Sedated
[show ends 10:50 PM]

Performers

Big Head Todd & the Monsters

Jeremy Lawton: keyboards, $ steel guitar, & guitar, harmony vox;
Brian Nevin: drums;
Todd Park Mohr: guitar, lead vox;
Rob Squires: bass guitar, harmony vox.

Notes

Heavy traffic tonight – everyone wants to go party in San Francisco on a Saturday night, right? – but we get to the Fillmore eventually, smash a parking spot, and walk in about 15 minutes before show time to stride right up to the rail. Damn! Guess no one else is interested in the Main Squeeze. I'm curious, and Ting likes being up close, so we're both pretty pleased with the result.

8 PM and as the opener comes out, the girls around us are whooping it up … must be friends of the band, right? I enjoy the Main Squeeze, and they do a creditable job of getting the crowd loose and ready to rock for BHT. If I'd done my pre-show homework, I would have known not to be surprised by Have a Cigar; as it was, I was gob-smacked. Hard to see how that tune was supposed to fit in with the disco/funk tilt of the rest of the setlist; maybe it's a prog-funk thing? Anyways, 40 min was just about right.

By setbreak the house had really filled up, but happily, things didn't get too crowded in our zone. Nice to have room to shuffle the feet and dance, right?

After opening with a relatively new tune, then following it up with a twenty year old hit, Todd promised that he and the Monsters were going to play “a long time,” with tunes selected from their 30+ years together… and then proceeded to do exactly that.

Overall, I was pretty happy with the show, and recognized about 2/3 of the tunes – my scratch notes for the others being useful enough to correctly identify titles once I could sit down and research lyric snippets on the Internet. Good one guys!