Last week’s blog teased about this week’s commentary. Cool for Cats is one of the signature songs by Squeeze; and the eve of the appearance last week’s blog found us with friends Jarmine and Eric at Mohegan Sun to see that wonderful band. It was basically a co-headliner situation with Boy George (Anyone remember Culture Club?) but we were there for Squeeze. We made a weekend around this concert with a (Sunset Hills) winery visit and dinner (La Llorona Progressive Mexican Cuisine) the day and eve before and breakfast ("The Shack" in East Lyme) followed by a stroll along the Niantic Bay Boardwalk the afternoon of the show. We dined ("The Lansdowne Iris Pub & Music House”) at the “Sun” before the show. The concert in Connecticut was was the first of five straight eves out. Citi Field Monday and Wednesday eve; a reprise of sorts of Sunday eve’s entertainment at Central Park Summerstage Tuesday eve; capped by the music of Yes and Emerson Lake & Palmer (“ELP”) Thursday eve at the Capitol Theatre in Westchester.

The concerts were all top flight and I attended many great shows this year – as detailed in past blogs. Squeeze opened at Sun and closed at SummerStage where Marisa joined her parents (She posted so to Facebook. The major difference in the sets involved Boy George joining Squeeze for T. Rex’s “Get It On” to close the SummerStage shows (See the set lists below.).

Portchester which Marisa attended with me featured Yes founder and lead singer Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks performing classic Yes tunes and one of their own (enjoy this brief snipper of ("And You and I."). The opener was (ELP drummer) Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy. I only saw Yes (with Jon Anderson) and ELP in large venues back in the day. It was amazing to experience those sounds in such an intimate venue. Marisa’s Bar Mitzvah Mixtape opened with “Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Part 2” so of course she took a video when Carl opened his show with his bandmates of blessed memory joining him virtually on that classic tune. She also posted Anderson and his mates performing “All Good People.”

And of course the Mets prevailed Monday and Wednesday eves! 

A very nice run.

I chose the title from the new song, "One Beautiful Summer," Squeeze performed both eves.

Setlists:

Squeeze at Mohegan Sun, September 15:

Take Me I'm Yours

Hourglass

Up the Junction

One Beautiful Summer

Someone Else's Heart

If I Didn't Love You

Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)

Another Nail in My Heart

You Get the Feeling

Trixie's Hell on Earth (Glenn Tilbrook song)

Goodbye Girl

Slap & Tickle

Is That Love?

Tempted

Cool for Cats

Black Coffee in Bed

Boy George at Mohegan Sun, September 15:

King of Everything

Watching the Lotus Bleed

Karma Chameleon (Culture Club)

Are 'Friends' Electric? (Tubeway Army cover)

Grossly Overrated

I'll Tumble 4 Ya (Culture Club)

It's a Miracle (Culture Club)

Church of the Poison Mind / I'm Your Man

The Crying Game (Dave Berry cover)

Kylie T-Shirt (Vangelis Polydorou cover)

Faster

Do You Really Want to Hurt Me (Culture Club)

Mrs. Blame

Victims (Culture Club)

Get It On (T Rex cover)

Purple Rain (Prince cover)

Squeeze at Central Park SummerStage, September 17 (entire concert)

Take Me I'm Yours

Hourglass

Up the Junction

One Beautiful Summer

Someone Else's Heart

If I Didn't Love You

Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)

Another Nail in My Heart

You Get the Feeling

Trixie's Hell on Earth (Glenn Tilbrook song)

Goodbye Girl

Slap & Tickle

Is That Love?

Tempted

Cool for Cats

Black Coffee in Bed/ After Hours (The Velvet Underground cover)

Get It On (T. Rex cover) (with Boy George)

Boy George at Central Park SummerStage, September 17

Mind Your Own Existence

Are 'Friends' Electric? (Tubeway Army cover)

Grossly Overrated

King of Everything

Watching the Lotus Bleed

Church of the Poison Mind / I'm Your Man

Faster

Do You Really Want to Hurt Me 

Kylie T-ShirtT Vangelis Polydorou cover)

The Crying Game (Dave Berry cover)

Bigger Than War / You Can't Always Get What You Want / Walk on the Wild Side

Karma Chameleon (Culture Club)

Purple Rain (Prince cover)

YES Epics, Classics & More ft. Jon Anderson and The Band Geeks at The Capitol Theatre Carl, September 19:

(Intro/The Firebird Suite)

Yours Is No Disgrace (Yes song)

Close to the Edge (Yes song)

Shine On

Heart of the Sunrise (Yes song) (followed by band introductions)

And You and I (Yes song)

Your Move/ I've Seen All Good People (Yes song) (including snippet of John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance")

Starship Trooper (Yes song) (Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd tease during outro)

Roundabout (Yes song)

Carl Palmer's ELP Legacy atThe Capitol Theatre Carl, September 19:

Intro (Abaddon's Bolero)

Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Part 2 (Emerson, Lake & Palmer cover)

Hoedown (Aaron Copland cover) (followed by band introductions)

Knife-Edge (Emerson, Lake & Palmer cover)

From the Beginning (Emerson, Lake & Palmer cover)

Carmina Burana (Carl Orff cover) >Drum Solo > Carmina Burana (reprise) (Carl Orff cover)

Paper Blood (Emerson, Lake & Palmer cover)

Lucky Man (Emerson, Lake & Palmer cover)

Fanfare for the Common Man / America / Blue Rondo à la Turk