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Did you see the Devin Townsend Project at the Oneonta Theatre in Oneonta, NY?

Please post your reviews, setlists, photos and video links here!

Thanks,

Mikey
hevydevy.com

I met Devy before the show and he was a cool dude. He signed some pictures and my ticket.

The set was

Addicted
Supercrush
Kingdom
Deadhead
Truth/OM
By Your Command
Life
Gaia
Bad Devil
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Bend it like Bender (brought people up to dance with him, I was one of them)
Color Your World
The Greys
Deep Peace

The VIP session was amazing. Devin spent so much time answering questions as telling such great stories. It was so relaxed. Could not have been a more amazing experience. He played Coast, Terminal, In-Ah, Sister, Lady Helen and Solar Winds.

The show itself was a great experience. There was one massive complaint that seemed to be the feelings of everyone in the crowd, and that was the audio of the venue we were at. When the openers played, they had amplifiers on stage which allowed for a stronger force of sound in the front of the crowd, but with Devin's set up, all audio was only coming through the two speakers which were on the top two corners of the stage, so we could barely hear some of the music. I easily recall right when the set started with Addicted, I could hear the actual sound of Devin's strings when he was strumming on stage.
The stage was peculiar since there was a pit for an orchestra between the band and the crowd, with theater seats behind a small floored area for the crowd. Again, with the audio being off, it was hard to get into at first, which is why I would figure that some fans couldn't get into it, but with it being Devin, it only took until Deadhead to really get into the grove of it all. The band was just as into it, it was just difficult for the crowd on certain songs, (During Gaia, Devin's solo couldn't be heard at all from our standpoint) During Life Devin took a fan's "Bunny Hat" and proceeded to jam out rocking the ears.
Following the first set, with the crowd being so small (There couldn't have been more than 125 of us), Devin proceeded to come down to the orchestral pit area and thank each fan in the front for coming to the show. A fun intimate moment for everyone who showed. He proceeded to speak about how odd this gig was with it being a massive venue and so few of us in the little place and how happy he was that we were all so into the music.
Again they had Mark from Addicted at the venue, and Devin, following up with how peculiar the gig was, asked if he could have fans on stage to dance to Bender. He had about ten of us, myself included on stage to do a chorus line to the entire song. Amazing.
As fun as that was, my highlight was the last three songs. Colour Your World is just too epic, and to see him close with Deep Peace just made the world a better place.
All in all. An odd gig. An awesome gig.
Pics!


Devin and myself in an "Awkward Conversation" Pose












Image I took while on stage during Bender

And, though I didn't take the video, i find it epic. So thanks so who ever may have done so!
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dang that vid is awesome

First time seeing Devin, it was a blast! He's the nicest, funniest, and most humble musician I've ever had the pleasure of seeing.
I've been a devoted fan since his early SYL days and it's great to see him touring again and clearly loving what he does. Despite
a kind of small turnout and the cold theater, this ranks as one of the best shows I've ever been to. Thanks Devin! \m/

Apparently video of the entire gig is coming. As a teaser, the taper posted this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd8mQhBefqY

Love of Socks wrote:Apparently video of the entire gig is coming. As a teaser, the taper posted this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd8mQhBefqY

That'd be me

What a show...I'll have it up as soon as I can, hang in there!

Oh, and Miek, I'm one of the two guys who walked in from soundcheck and talked to you before Dev came in. You might also know me as the douche with the camera haha.

Jack8the8Ripper wrote:

Love of Socks wrote:Apparently video of the entire gig is coming. As a teaser, the taper posted this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd8mQhBefqY

That'd be me

What a show...I'll have it up as soon as I can, hang in there!

Oh, and Miek, I'm one of the two guys who walked in from soundcheck and talked to you before Dev came in. You might also know me as the douche with the camera haha.

Hahaha awesome! I'm still quite jealous of that...

Hey, is there any way I could get a copy of the recorded show? Even just the video files? It was such a rad show, to have a copy of it would be freaking amazing...

Yeah man, I was at that show and it was awesome. I even saw me on stage. If I could get a copy I would appreciate it so much.

Wow, looked like you had a helluva time, awesome!

Miek wrote:

Jack8the8Ripper wrote:

Love of Socks wrote:Apparently video of the entire gig is coming. As a teaser, the taper posted this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd8mQhBefqY

That'd be me

What a show...I'll have it up as soon as I can, hang in there!

Oh, and Miek, I'm one of the two guys who walked in from soundcheck and talked to you before Dev came in. You might also know me as the douche with the camera haha.

Hahaha awesome! I'm still quite jealous of that...

Hey, is there any way I could get a copy of the recorded show? Even just the video files? It was such a rad show, to have a copy of it would be freaking amazing...

Yep I can do that, I can burn you a DVD or send you files. I'll also post audio up on Tyronehood along with the videos.

Meantime here's some samplers for ya:

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My friend (who indirectly introduced me to Devin waaay back in high school by watching SYL videos in my presence) and I got into New York an hour and a half before the acoustic set was to start, and we'd heard somewhere that the acoustic set and actual show might be in different venues so we decided to check the venue out. We got to the building which had a huge Devin Townsend marquee, however there were no lines and it was dark in the building. It was one of the first cold days of fall so we decided to try the door. Lo and behold who's in the lobby but Devin who was talking to a sound man. After about a half minute of standing there they walked out of the room and we decided to follow them, which took us to the main theater. The DTP were all hanging out on the stage and there were only about 3 sound men working, so we were virtually alone with the band. The bartender walked back after a while and told us we weren't allowed in the theater for soundcheck however was doing his acoustic soundcheck back in the lobby so we couldn't leave the room just yet (he said he'd come back to escort us out, which he never did ). We sat there until 530 and witnessed Addicted! live all by ourselves.






That in itself pretty much made our day, but now it was time for the acoustic set. My friend and I talked to Miek until Devin came out. He played Coast, Terminal, Ih-Ah, Sister, and Lady Helen. Somewhere in there he played a Ghost song that I recognized the tune of but I don't know the name of. In between he answered questions about writing your own music, his family, progress of Ghost and Decon, the tour, etc.


My friend meets Devin


He started signing people's whatnots so I ran to my car and back to get Hummer, Alien, and Infinity signed and got back all out of breath. My friend told Devin how important he is to his music, and had a show flyer signed. While Dev was signing the Hummer REPLACE above the radio telescope, I blurted out that I was going to college for astronomy, which I was somehow trying to thank Dev for all the inspiration as far as being a musician with similar philosophical interests (chaos, infinity, Mandelbrot, SETI, Contact (aliens farting into cosmic microphones), etc). Devin was nice enough to talk to my little sister on my phone, I had told Devin that my Grandad died the Friday before and my sister was very upset she couldn't make it to a show (thanks again Devin! you made her day). Thus began the waiting in line.

Before Dev even started, things were crazy. An awesome fan sporting a mullet provided the whole venue with entertainment dancing to Ziltoid Radio's "crusing metal" tracks. The whole theater cheered when he tore his shirt off for "Stayin Alive." Dev's set began with Addicted!, and he kept making comments about how he "couldn't see shit" and he knew there were "ten thousand fans" out there even though he couldn't see them. Dev played "Life" wearing a bunny hat, and thus was born a new genre: BUNNYCORE. All hail! After playing Gaia and (unexpectedly) Bad Devil, he left the stage temporarily before climbing in the orchestra pit and taking the time to shake everyone's hands in the front (row. Must've been an odd experience for him to shake hands upwards . He also found a door under centerstage that he broke into to our amusement. He retook the stage for Bend It Like Bender! and the flow of humanity went the opposite direction through the orchestra pit. The ensuing bacchanalia was a classic moment to say the least. Mark was a guitarist for this song and suggested the chorus line (which Dev even joined in with). After this it was back to Ziltoid, followed by a jam where he wore a fan's orange scarf, and finished off with Deep Peace. He walked off the stage drinking coffee (tea?), which we could see was putting off tons of steam because of how damn cold it had been all night.

The crowd remained up front, and cheers of "one more song" quickly became "10 more songs." Fans were requesting songs (I considered requesting a Death Of Music acapella) and shouting "nobody's leaving!" before Devin had to come out front (it was an old fashioned movie theater complete with red curtains) and tell people DTP was done and he had to go help pack up.

Dev tweeted after the show that it was a bizzare night in Oneonta, and coming from him you know the show was really strange I can only agree, but it was an absolutely amazing night.

As a sidenote, I've been (nonprofessionally) filming shows for a website for the last year and a half, and I'm the resident Dev fan so I always make it the point to be at Dev shows. Thanks Devin for tolerating the camera, I tend to feel bad filming bands I like but I would've been there regardless of whether I was filming. Thanks for not kicking the camera out of my hands! But I hope now more people will get to enjoy the show as I did.

Thanks for filming. Part of me is always like "wooo let us document this to serve the scene!" Then the rest of me goes "eh fuck that. Damned kids. WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE."

Thanks for taping (memorycarding?) on behalf of these people who have thin chance of seeing Devin live for various reasons (money and/or geography, for example). It's hard to depend on non-existent pro-shot material innit.

this is the first banner I've ever made for a show lol...click it or ticket!