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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Eagles get cheers

After 35 years, The Eagles are smart about playing to a Philly crowd.

During Tuesday's concert at the Wachovia Center, Joe Walsh popped on a Phillies cap for "In the City," which included video scenes of the city of Philadelphia and Brad Lidge throwing the final out in the World Series, the on-field celebration shots and the parade. And the crowd went wild.

The band also announced midway through the opening set that a portion of the proceeds from the night would be going to the FOP Memorial Scholarship Fund to benefit the families of our fallen police officer, and in a show of emotion before dedicating a song to the Philadellphia Police Department, they read the names of the five officers who died this year.
Posted by Michael Klein @ 5:01 PM  Permalink | 1 comment
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:52 AM, 11/27/2008
    In general good sound and performance but the set list was horrible! The first 4 songs were ALL in a row new material from the latest album(???MIX IT UP). Finally they got into the stuff that quite obviously the crowd was there to see. Good stuff really got rocking, jamming "In the City" every one up and dancing then on that note, really the high point so far.....Set break????????WTF!!!!! Second set, after a short break they give us no less than 1 full hour of very slow(but good)mellow acoustic new material. No one was up, people chatting on cell phones, people actually dozing off, very boring... then what the people wanted for the rest of the night. The band credits were void of any short solos which would have been nice with the horns etc. IMO great sound, good performance but I felt like they were force feeding me the new stuff and I was held hostage waiting to experience what we all came to see. It was weird, they could have very easily inserted the new stuff in between the hits to make it a great night. Was it just me or does anyone else feel the same??? Please reply.
    — BADMOTHERUPPER


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Michael Klein, the editor/producer of philly.com/Food, writes about the local restaurant scene in his Inquirer column "Table Talk." Have a question? Email it! See his Inquirer work here.
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