Bad Religion -- Echo Park, CA -- January 23rd, 2013

[christopher]

Bad Religion played a one off show at The Echo in Echo Park on Wednesday night. This was seriously a dream come true for me because The Echo is a tiny fucking venue that only holds less than 300 people at capacity. When my friend told me about the show, I knew it would sell out instantly. The tickets went on sale and less than a second later they were sold out. I was lucky enough to get one. I had been curious to see who the opener for the show would be all week, but there was no word of anyone playing. Finally, on the night of the show, The Echo posted on facebook that doors were at 8pm and that Bad Religion would start at 9pm with no openers. I would have liked for them to get some cool OC punk band, but I was happy the show would end early so I would have time for homework afterwards/

Bad Religion went on right at 9pm. I was hoping for some awesome old school songs since it was a club show, but nope, we got one song from How Could Hell, one from Suffer and two from No Control. That was a big let down. We were lucky to get Anesthesia due to some guy in the crowd yelling it many times between each song. It wasn't on the setlist, but they decided to play it so that the guy would shut up. I yelled out for The Positive Aspect of Negative Thinking early on and Jay started laughing for a minute straight because it was kind of a ridiculous request. I then proceeded to yell for Frogger but he just played the bass line real quick. It was amazing seeing BR in such a tiny venue! The stage was too small for all of them! I was kind of surprised they didn't play more songs from the new album since it just came out on Tuesday, but I was happy with what we got. It would have been nice to hear In Their Hearts is Right, but oh well. Also, I kind of wish they would have played 6 more songs to make it the even 30 I got to see them do during the 30 years of Bad Religion in 2009. I doubt I'll go see them again unless its at the House of Blues in Anaheim. I know they're playing the Palladium in a few months, but going from a tiny venue to a giant venue is no bueno.

Suffer
The Past Is Dead
We're Only Gonna Die
New Dark Ages
True North
Robin Hood in Reverse
Fuck You
Supersonic
Los Angeles Is Burning
Wrong Way Kids
Vanity
Dept. of False Hope
Nothing to Dismay
Anesthesia
You
I Want to Conquer the World
Modern Man
Epiphany
Dearly Beloved
Heroes & Martyrs
Sorrow
American Jesus
Punk Rock Song
21st Century (Digital Boy)

[Onioner]

Not so bummed I missed out on this show then, I am still kicking myself over missing them in 2010 though. Glad to see New Dark Ages and Heroes and Martyrs, I don't know if it's because New Maps of Hell came out when I got into BR, but I really love that album. I would probably go bonkers if I got to see them play Requiem for Dissent.

[elturtleboy]

Pretty decent setlist. Still jelly!

[TheNobleFaceHumper]

They, they didn't play Infected? Not that it's anywhere near their best song, but I just figured it was a setlist staple.

[christopher]

Originally Posted by TheNobleFaceHumper

They, they didn't play Infected? Not that it's anywhere near their best song, but I just figured it was a setlist staple.

They didn't do Fuck Armageddon or No Control and those are more like staples than Infected.

[The Colonel]

I've seen them 5 times and have never seen them do Infected. However, there are some staples missing, No Control, Generator, Recipe For Hate, and Do What You Want have been played at every show I've seen.

[Sinister_Chalupa666]

Well...lets hope we get a little more of the oldies on this headlining tour coming through.

[ijwthstd]

I tried for a ticket, didn't get one, wasn't motivated enough to try anyway.

Now who's got the Help Mike setlists?

[TheNobleFaceHumper]

I wish they'd play " Let Them Eat War" live

[The Colonel]

Originally Posted by TheNobleFaceHumper

I wish they'd play " Let Them Eat War" live

They definitely played that last tour.