1. And so it ends: the concert I've been waiting to attend for so long. Eloise and Son and Weiss and I were standing there maybe 10 people from the stage. And alas, it was rather anticlimactic...
2. I never thought I'd write this, but the setlist was rather short on hits.
3. I mean, it was great to hear "Winterlong" dusted off and all, but when you unveil self-indulgent 15-minute long instrumentals (though the last one before the encore just rocked) about two and a half hours into the concert -- with the blood sunk way down into my ankles -- would it really have killed Billy to throw in "I Am One" or "Cherub Rock" or "Mayonaise" into the whole three-hour set?
4. "Zero" was great though. And so was "With Every Light" early in the set. And "Muzzle" in the first encore.
5. The highlight of the show for me, I think, was the slow-burning "Starla".
6. But jeez -- not even "Bullet with Butterfly Wings"?
7. Was that Ummagumma playing while the Black Angels were clearing their stuff?
8. And that light show was pretty amazing.
9. Plus the longest will-call line I've ever seen at the Fillmore -- all the way down the city block and down past the KFC on Geary and Steiner.
10. And yeah, the new folks were great and all, and Billy and Jimmy were fantastic, but... I think I want my D'Arcy and James back.