Soiled Dove, Denver, CO
This was the fourth time we have seen Carbon Leaf since “discovering” them opening for another fav band ‘Great Big Sea’ back in March at 32 Bleu. Two local bands opened for them tonight and neither were very good at all.
Carbon Leaf finally hit the stage about 11:30 pm. The first part of the set they appeared to being mixing up the tempos, slowing most of the songs down a little. The sound guy was also throwing in a lot of delay and echo, which was very odd. About half way thru the set they were back to playing like I remember. It was a great set overall (I forgot to write down the setlist and hope to find it listed somewhere soon.)
Have you seen that Far Side cartoon “Raymond’s last day as the band’s sound technician” and shows a guy turning up the “Suck” knob? Well this was life imitating art… Near the end of the set the sound guy was really starting to piss the band off with the effects and feed back in the system.
