The Black Keys
Aragon Ballroom, uptown Chicago, new years eve.
Dan Auerbach takes the stage and he represents with a shave and a haircut.
Thickfreakness
Girl is on my mind
10AM Automatic
The Breaks (I knew it)
(Intro)Stack Shot Billy
(Another beautiful intro) Busted
Act nice n' gentle
Everlasting Light
Chop n' change
Midnight!!!!!! Balloons drop, Patrick gets off the drum kit and Dan pops champagne into the first row, etc. Next girl
Howlin' for you
Tighten Up
She's Long gone
Ten cent pistol
I'll Be Your ManStrange Times
Encore
Sinister Kid [also from "Brothers"].
Your TouchI have seen the Black Keys play twice before, once as recently as July in Philly.
Unlike July, however, my date and i were on time for the opening band and, though the "line ride" took around 20 minutes, nabbed a good spot upstairs and stayed in the same spot for the entire two hours. We did not purchase drinks or visit the lavatory.
The two men, and the party that later joined them, were on-stage from 1120PM until 1230. This show really belted me with the new material. The setlist from their Penn's Landing show in July reflects a similar order to the plugging of the songs from their May 2010 release "Brothers" on Nonesuch Records. They were, again joined by two additional gents playing bass and organ, as they were in July (denoted in text). From my 6'3" visibility i agonized as the opening band nailed their instrumental responsibility, and still offered not one appetizing verse with regard to vocal integrity. It sounded bad, and what's more, the singer/guitarist wore his hair long and unshaven looking very much like Dan Auerbach's shaggy unshaven self. After the act departed, the Black Keys were onstage in less than 20 minutes, a great courtesy that i would like to thank them for.
Dan walks out on stage clean shaven with short hair, stopping me in my thoughts before i spoke of the irritable similarity i associated to the opening singer. And then they ripped a hole in the night.
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