I didn't really do much when I got back from the Moose Run apart from watching some TV and sleeping. On the friday I got up early, so I could organise a few things for the rest of my trip as well as some tickets to see Dave Lee Roth that night at the Orpheum Theatre. I then decided to take a little walk around town and in the afternoon thought I'd go and see if I could find Granville Island Brewery as they do tours and tastings. Anyway I ended up walking a couple of miles up Granville Street after going over the Granville St Bridge, turns out that Granville Island is pretty much below the bridge. So I decided I'd pop back there the next day as there wasn't a conveniently timed tour. I headed up to the Orpheum to collect my ticket for the show, but was told the time I'd previously been told was too early, so I wandered about and watched a free rock concert on the corner of Granville and Georgia, I have no idea who the band were, but they were quite good. After a quite detour by a bar I headed down to the concert. Beer and Cider were the same price, but as I discovered Cider is sometimes a little different over here, i.e. pink and fizzy. After talking to a local I found out that Cider is what they call a Wine Cooler. Anyway enough of the moaning, the support act were the Flairs who were reminiscent of Veruca Salt but they clearly hadn't been allowed a decent sound check. So onto Diamond Dave, the man's still got his showman flair even if he is looking a little past it, the show was billed as playing all the old favourites - this translates to play mostly Van Halen, three solo songs, the rest covers and completely forget about the DLR Band ever existing. The set list was:
Hot For Teacher
Mean Streets
Just Like Paradise
Running With The Devil
Eruption
You Really Got Me
Ad Lib + Jam
You Really Got Me Reprise
California Girls
Somebody Get Me A Doctor
The Cradle Will Rock
Just A Gigolo/Ain't Got Nobody
Unchained
Jam
Unchained Reprise
Crazy From The Heat
Shh Bop (New but still a cover)
Theme From Shaft
Panama
Dance the Night Away
????? May have been another song here
Yankee Rose
Encore 1
Ice Cream Man
Everybody Wants Some
Aint Talkin Bout Love
Encore 2
Jump
So all in all it was a pretty good show.
On saturday I didn't do much except go to the Brewery for the tour (not worth it) and the tasting (well worth it). I then watched the rugby before grabbing some dinner and some sleep before the Bigfoot Run started the next morning.
Posted by Alexis at July 5, 2003 12:53 AM