Rockers Bush and Live are out on their ALTimate tour to celebrate the 25th anniversaries of their respective breakout albums Sixteen Stone and Throwing Copper along with openers Our Lady Peace. The 33-date run hit Concord, California’s Concord Pavilion on a warm but breezy evening for what would prove to be an epic celebration of two of the biggest albums of the ’90s.
The evening kicked off about 30 minutes late as the venue and crew wrestled with some technical issues, but the silver lining was that it gave the fans some additional time to fight their way through the Thursday night rush hour traffic in time for Our Lady Peace’s opening set.
Live wasted no time pulling out material from Throwing Copper, launching right into “All Over You” which got the Concord crowd on their feet. In an unexpected twist, Live chose to use part of their 60+ minute set to plow through covers of R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion” and The Rolling Stones’ “Paint It Black” to complement the band’s classic material.
Bush took a similar approach to Live, launching right into the one-two punch of “Machinehead” and “The Chemicals Between Us.” In spite of the co-headlining status, the tour seemed to have saved the electricity for Bush … the lighting over-the-top as frontman Gavin Rossdale bounded around the stage. In a bit of a bizarre move, Rossdale pulled out a pair of chefs knives before introducing “This is War,” but otherwise the set was flawless and those in the back greatly appreciated Gavin’s adventure into the crowd during “Little Things.”
Those tunes from Sixteen Stone and Throwing Copper were practically unavoidable in the mid-90’s and after twenty-five years the ALTimate tour has proven that they have all held up incredibly well.
OUR LADY PEACE
LIVE
BUSH
OUR LADY PEACE SETLIST
Drop Me in the Water
Superman’s Dead
Innocent / Maps
Clumsy
Starseed
Somewhere Out There
LIVE SETLIST
All Over You
Selling the Drama
Losing My Religion (R.E.M. cover)
Shit Towne
The Dolphin’s Cry
Paint It Black (The Rolling Stones cover)
Lakini’s Juice
I Alone
White, Discussion
Heaven
Turn My Head
Lightning Crashes
BUSH SETLIST
Machinehead
The Chemicals Between Us
This Is War
Everything Zen
Swallowed
Body
The Sound of Winter
Bullet Holes
Little Things
Glycerine
Comedown
