Sneakers - Reunion Shows, NYC & NC 2007-'08

Sneakers were one of the early bands that Chris, 
Will & Mitch Easter were in

audience recordings (sound quality VG-) 

Highlight: The B&G Pies ad, of course!

BIG THANKS to the tapers, apologies to CS, and LOTS OF THANKS to dB’s Fan for the share!
 

SAMPLE: "On the Brink (Cat's Cradle 2008)"

Cat's Cradle

Carrboro, NC

May 2, 2008*

01 intro

02 On the Brink

03 Decline and Fall

04 Condition Red

05 Driving

06 Nonsequitur (of Silence) [WR]

07 Story of a Girl

08 Ruby [RK]

09 B & G Pies ad

10 Quelle Folie

11 Walk Upon the Water (Move cover)

12 No Wonder

13 (Love's Like a) Cuban Missile Crisis

14 S'Il Vous Plait

15 What I Dig

The Bowery Ballroom

NYC

Jan. 13, 2007**

16 S'Il Vous Plait

17 Ruby [RK]

18 Decline and Fall

19 (Love's Like a) Cuban Missile Crisis

20 Nonsequitur (of Silence) [WR]

21 Quelle Folie

22 On the Brink

23 Condition Red

Chris and Mitch take turns singing lead for most of these. Will and Robert Keely each sing lead on 1 song: Will on “Nonsequitur” and Robert on “Ruby.”

*Opener for The Pressure Boys at a Cystic Fibrosis Foundation benefit 2008-05-02 (the 2^nd Sneakers reunion show).

**Opener for dB’s reunion show (the 1^st Sneakers reunion show), 2007-01-13. A reporter at the NYC show wrote, “For Sneakers’ last two songs, Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley joined in to contribute tambourine and cowbell.”

MP3@320 (2007 show is MP3@192, best avail. bit rate)

Alt. Link
  

AH, the good ol’ days — when Chris had his own label...

 
Sneakers:

Mitch Easter - guitars, electric sitar, vocals

Chris Stamey - guitar, vocals

Will Rigby - drums, vocals

Robert Keely - bass, vocals

Chris Stevenson - drums, percussion

Wes Lachot – keyboards

NOTE: above is 2008 Carrboro show lineup, which was slightly different for 2007 show in NYC…
 

One more from the NYC reunion show - photo by Edutourist via Flickr

FOR FURTHER READING: brief history of Sneakers from Trouser Press is HERE; a longer feature story from IndyWeek is reproduced HERE; a review of the Bowery Ballroom 2007 show in NYC (with The dB's & Let's Active) from the No Depression archive is HERE; nearly shameless plug: Mick Dillingham's guest post about the many connections between Mitch Easter and The dB's is one of this blog's special pages, found HERE.