Thursday, Sep 22, 2005

The White Stripes

Date
Thursday, Sep 22, 2005
Show time
7:30 PM
Venue
The Opera House
City
Boston, MA
Seating
Orchestra Left Center
Face value
$42.50
Sold by
Ticketmaster

539 Washington St. Get Behind Me Satan tour.

What they played

  1. Blue Orchid
  2. When I Hear My Name
  3. Party of Special Things to Do Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band cover
  4. Passive Manipulation
  5. Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
  6. Hotel Yorba
  7. The Hardest Button to Button
  8. The Nurse
  9. My Doorbell
  10. Lord, Send Me an Angel Blind Willie McTell cover
  11. Broken Bricks
  12. Jambalaya (On the Bayou) Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys cover
  13. Astro
  14. Jack the Ripper Clarence Stacy cover
  15. Death Letter Son House cover
  16. Red Rain
  17. Jack on Fire The Gun Club cover

Encore

  1. Forever for Her (Is Over for Me)
  2. As Ugly as I Seem
  3. Do
  4. Small Faces Public Nuisance cover
  5. Hello Operator
  6. You Belong to Me Pee Wee King cover
  7. Little Ghost
  8. Seven Nation Army
  9. Boll Weevil Lead Belly cover

26 songs, from setlist.fm. Contributed by whoever was standing there taking notes.

The moment

The third and final White Stripes stub in the archive, and the strangest chapter: Get Behind Me Satan traded the riffs for marimba, piano, and paranoia — a #3 album that confused radio and won the Grammy anyway. The setting matched the pivot: a restored gilded opera house instead of a rock room. Two years later Meg's anxiety took them off the road for good. Roxy, arena, opera house — John's three stubs turned out to trace the entire public arc, first ascent to final act.

From the time

The stub

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