Review by Josh

November 30, 2002
 

Fingertight's singer was extremely creepy, vulgar, and definitely on something. During one song he licked his freaking microphone, and he could barely get from one song to the next without swearing in between. Fingertight's balance was poor, the bass was way too loud, and in the first song they had technical difficulties with the guitar. This was pretty cool, though, because while the guitar player was working on getting his equipment working again, they did a drum and bass jam, and the singer made up lyrics on the spot, which were began with something like, "We're in Eugene, Oregon/And we're having technical difficulties." The Technical Difficulties Song was definitely the highlight of Fingertight's performance.  

Raine talked and interacted with the audience more than at the last OLP concert I went to. He gave a long introduction to Bring Back the Sun instead of Whatever. After Whatever, they played a new song called Our Time Is Fading, which was very cool to see. Raine did something interesting with Is Anybody Home? After the new intro, he sang the lyrics "Goodbye, the future sold out, there's no use screaming / who thought we'd ever get this far" half the speed they're normally sung, while the guitar part was played twice at the regular speed. The Wonderful Future is as beautiful live as it is in the studio, and I'm very excited to see that they're playing that song live. The concert was overall very good, and I thought the crowd seemed to be interested in the music without a lot of moshing or crowd surfing, which I thought was good.