Word: orpheums
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Amidst the distribution of numerous Santa hats courtesy of WBCN, three bands took the stage for charity at the radio station's annual X-Mas Rave at the Orpheum. Dust For Life, Fuel and Collective Soul gave a concert that was full of energy and enthusiasm despite a relatively small audience. Listeners were rewarded with glimpses of all three bands' new albums, a chance to meet Dust For Life and a series of intense performances...
...thrilled the audience with "Shine," the hit single off Hints, Allegations and Things Left Unsaid. An encore cover performance of AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" ended things on a much louder note, and left a raucous audience fighting for Santa hats from the WBCN deejays immediately outside of the Orpheum's doors...
...want to wish Jimi a happy birthday," Chris Wood told the audience at the Orpheum Friday night before he and bandmates Billy Martin and John Medeski launched into a blazing version of Hendrix's "Crosstown Traffic." Belting out Jimi's funky lines on bass, drums, and organ, respectively, Medeski, Martin and Wood finished off a night that had been a whirlwind tour of jazz, funk, rock and pure abstract experimentalism...
...stage at the Orpheum, the musical mix tended to flip between head-bobbing, butt-shaking funk and loose soundscape jamming. The crowd, a mix of dreadlocked Berkelee students and buttoned-down middle-aged jazz fans, divided along the expected lines on whether to get up and shake it or keep to their seats and just enjoy the atmosphere during the first set. Once the second set dropped, though, it was clear that anyone not willing to get up off of that thing was going to be stuck looking at someone else's, and most everyone took to their feet...
...Orpheum...