Hey,
I'm thinking about checking these guys out, but it's a two hour drive is it worth it?
-Mark
do you like guitar?
given the right conditions, these guys can melt face......
and the real question is......
are you willing to drive 2hrs to take a chance and live a little?
i think i might live a little and make the drive. i'm kinda tried of everything i've been listening to lately. there's nothing that can really get me movin' like phish. i'm looking for a new phish but that's just not gonna happen.
we won 2 tix to see them in boston and still didn't dig it.
where's the show?
GO! These guys rule, is it worth the drive? Put it this way I had a big job interview today at 10:00 and I still hit last nights show. I cut out early because I had to crash, but they were tearing it up!
I wish I could go see them tomorrow in Eugene, another two hour drive, but its not meant to be. If I didn't have to work I'd go down there in a second though.
little club in l.a. this saturday. boston huh? i use to go to high school on the north shore. i'm moving back in the spring.
word. where are you moving to?
I'm trying to get a job teaching high school photo in Beverly. Where are you at?
yeah, I went last night with Hicks, and it was pretty sick. They keep getting better and better. I have probably seen them @ 20 times, and some times are better than others for sure, but they are killing it lately. I'd say go for sure...I told Nab he should go to the Missoula show, but I don't know if he went or if he liked it. I think they are way better than any of the other 'jam band' scene bands out there. I mean, Panic is playing here tonight at the Coliseum and Raq played to 100 people last night? Something's wrong here....
you couldn't drag me to most jambands shows. I really like seeing Raq though.
I saw them last week and enjoyed the hell out of myself despite going alone to a bar full of Heads That Don't Know S@#&.
yes. go!
I just checked them out recently. an alright first set and then a 2nd set face melter
I remember the first time I saw these guys back in like 98-99.....
West Side Cheers in Bingo.....prolly, 20 people there.....they tore my face off, showed it to me, and put it back on my skull before the night was through.....
theres was 107 people at the raq show i just went to.
I don't want to come off as a hater...I've only seen them once. At Berkfest 2001 I believe...they were playing the small side stage next to the hillside...it seemed like a frankenstein of phish jams...I remember distinctly thinking, wow this is like a little mash-up of an uncle penn's jam with a bit of fluffhead thrown in...and then there was a VERY distinct maze jam...to be fair I was just starting to spin a bit and needed to get out of there and walk for a bit...I def. had fun and danced, but I felt like I was seeing a different kind of cover/tribute band...I'd check them out again if they were in Providence.
Left after the 1st set
Quote from: edemille on October 03, 2007, 04:19:10 PM
I don't want to come off as a hater...I've only seen them once. At Berkfest 2001 I believe...they were playing the small side stage next to the hillside...it seemed like a frankenstein of phish jams...I remember distinctly thinking, wow this is like a little mash-up of an uncle penn's jam with a bit of fluffhead thrown in...and then there was a VERY distinct maze jam...to be fair I was just starting to spin a bit and needed to get out of there and walk for a bit...I def. had fun and danced, but I felt like I was seeing a different kind of cover/tribute band...I'd check them out again if they were in Providence.
Back then that's what I though too. When I went to their early shows (they started in 2000 as Shadraq) I went because I have been friends with Jay for a long time. I would go and it would be like, oh, this is their down with disease jam song, or oh , this is their Llama type song. It was really Phish-like, so I wasn't into at all. But I kept going, and after they switched keyboard players (01 or 02) they just took a huge leap. Plus Chris stopped playing exactly like Trey. I mean when Phish was playing Eyes of the World and Scarlet->Fire in '85, a lot of people probably felt the same way. but you have to start somewhere and grow from there, and they have. I am not a huge fan of their studio output, but live, they bring it.
None of their albums are available here.
I like some of their covers:
Carolina Hardcore Ecstacy
Cult of Personality
Jump
some ZZ Top
i know what you mean by similar Phish jams. seems like a tinge of Prog through heavy synthesizer has altered that association slightly. (to me)
Quote from: nab on October 04, 2007, 12:20:08 AM
None of their albums are available here.
they have one on itunes.
RAQ was sick last night. I might not even mind doing a string of shows with them. Anyone going to the vegas show tonight? wish i was...
do kids tour with these guys at all?
Quote from: MarkDavidson on October 07, 2007, 03:03:32 PM
do kids tour with these guys at all?
not full on, but back east, people do strings of shows. Plus people travel for their NYE and summer fest gigs....I am sure some people will be tarvelling to Halloween gig in Ashville
I don't dig them but if you do they have a couple hundred shows for download here:
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Aetree%20AND%20creator%3A%22Raq%22
-t
Saw Raq for the first time NYE in Knoxville.........
WOW! I was really blown away...they played 3 full sets (almost four hours), and I think they only played 2 covers that whole time...When they broke out Tennessee Jed, the whole crowd was singing along. They also played an interesting version of Billy Jean.
I think that they have developed their own sound, as they were not coming off as very "Phishy" to me...they were ragin' heavy and funkadelic...It was probably the best $20 show I've ever seen (I'm too young to have seen Phish that cheaply!)
I would certainly check them out again, and maybe would even drive a couple or three hours to do it!
nice....wish I was closer to TN, and was rich and didn't have a baby...then I would have gone for sure....glad it was good....how many people were there?
Quote from: MarkDavidson on October 07, 2007, 03:03:32 PM
do kids tour with these guys at all?
My Buddie is about to go on tour with these guys, but only like 4/5 shows
Quote from: caravan2001 on January 03, 2008, 09:44:42 PM
nice....wish I was closer to TN, and was rich and didn't have a baby...then I would have gone for sure....glad it was good....how many people were there?
Ya, this was probably the first time in the last 10 years that my wife and I have gone out for NYE (due to kids and $$)...We were lucky to have an good, inexpensive show dropped at our doorstep! (They played the 30th too, but we could only do one show)
The place was not sold out, there were maybe 300-500 people there, but they all seemed to be loving it...We talked to a lot of people who had traveled from the NE just for the 2 days of Raq.
Quote from: keeb333 on January 04, 2008, 09:13:46 AM
Quote from: caravan2001 on January 03, 2008, 09:44:42 PM
nice....wish I was closer to TN, and was rich and didn't have a baby...then I would have gone for sure....glad it was good....how many people were there?
Ya, this was probably the first time in the last 10 years that my wife and I have gone out for NYE (due to kids and $$)...We were lucky to have an good, inexpensive show dropped at our doorstep! (They played the 30th too, but we could only do one show)
The place was not sold out, there were maybe 300-500 people there, but they all seemed to be loving it...We talked to a lot of people who had traveled from the NE just for the 2 days of Raq.
nice.....
Quote from: MarkDavidson on October 07, 2007, 03:03:32 PM
do kids tour with these guys at all?
i have done short runs (3-5 shows). they have come a long way in just a few short years and are the only band out there right now that keeps me wanting more (kind of like how I felt with Phish). went to Knoxville for their NYE shows and had a great time. plus most of the people I have met are really good folks
Did you make the show at The Other Side this fall?
Quote from: nab on February 04, 2008, 11:26:10 PM
Did you make the show at The Other Side this fall?
i did. not the best turnout, to say the least. did you?
Sure did.
I got the go ahead from the wife for a night out. I showed up at what I thought was the start time according to the posters. I was there alone; I didn't know anyone who wanted to go or was free to. I showed up early expecting a good turnout and got really good and drunk before the show started an hour and a half after when it was supposed to. I really enjoyed the Brother From Another Mother opener and the Push the Little Daisies cover, but alas, I was too drunk by the end of the first set to stick around for the second. I'd definitely catch them again though, but I don't know if they will be coming back around here again after the turnout they got. Too bad.
They were supposed to play Buffalo first show of the tour, but it got rescheduled to march 15