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Tj Sundown

"The most popular suggestions will form the basis the set"

...Or not as the case may be.

I'de decided to keep it quite from my best mate that Moon Over Kentucky had been voted equal first. I couldn't wait to see the look of surprise on his face when they played it.

In the end it was me who got the big surprise.

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lazysunbathers · Groupie Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 181

The best gig of all time and you're nit-picking ...? ;)

Seriously though, looking at the Top Ten as voted, there was no way that was going to be played as a second set. And didn't Russell say at various Islington gigs that he and Ron were going to influence the decision a little?

I believe everything they played WAS voted for... just that some of the songs were a little lower down the voting order than others.

Dal · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:31 pm Post subject:

If R&R are intending to make a commercial release of the Shepherds Bush gig they may have wanted to avoid the need to have one track which has songwriting credits beyond "Ron and Russell Mael".
I'm not sure but I think "Moon Over Kentucky" also had "Mankey and Mankey" credits, didn't it?
It might be why they also also chose to omit any of the "No.1 in Heaven" tracks. I'm fairly sure that "Moroder" shares the songwriting honours for some of those.
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Alex Robertson · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:52 am Post subject:

Just to point out.."form the basis of the set"..to my mind always meant..that the songs FROM the top selection would be considered for inclusion,(nothing was guaranteed)and played with other tracks(as chosen by the band..or maybe just Russell...lol).The tracks chosen may have been selected for their suitability to gel together as an encore set.....

..........I might be wrong though...

Dal · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:53 am Post subject:

Alex Robertson · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:24 pm Post subject:

Pretty good going indeed...they could've just played the top one and it would still "formed the basis" of the encore...Still I'll bet TJ's mate was blown away by Big Boy anyway.