Obligatory who's going to what show? thread

[manho]

that you have to choose between vomit and snot game: woody with his group or interiors?

[david]

Jun 14, 2008 17:11:14 GMT -5 Cat Stevens said:

"And then a film festival starts . . ."


any interesting guests?

The programme's not been released yet. The best guest this festival ever had was Ray Harryhausen. Meeting him rated very high on my cool meter.

[cripes]

1) "I'm gonna go see Woody Allen."
2) "Oh cool! That should be really funny--I love his movies and comic insights."
1) 'Well......"

1) "I'm gonna go see Jonathan Richman."
2) "Oh cool! 'Roadrunner' is awesome--should be good."
1) 'Well...."


1) "I'm gonna go see Bob Dylan."
2) "Oh cool! I remember the Concert For Bangladesh--cool Levi jacket, that trademark curly hair, acoustic guitar....sounds great!"
1) "Well....."

[cripes]

LOL @ myself!!!

I just bought tickets for this:


A ROCKIN' & ROLLIN' EVENING TO REMEMBER
Saturday • November 15 • 8pm
BOBBY RYDELL
"Volare" "Wild One" "Wildwood Days" "Sway"
and
LOU CHRISTIE
"Lightning Strikes" "Make You Mine" "Two Faces Have I" "Rhapsody In The Rain"
"The Gypsy Cried"



I love Lou Christie. I could give two fucks about Bobby Rydell. It's gonna suck, but dammit--I want to be there.

[cripes]

OMG!!! I just got two 7th row tickets for Petula Clark at the Castro Theater next March.....

This'll be me:

I hope she does 'Color My World'


Oh my god....'I Know a Place'!


I bet 'Downtown' is next!


...'when you're alone and life is making you lonely you can always go.....


"I KNEW IT!!!! 'Color My World' first encore! PETULAAAAAAAA!!!!!

[cripes]

Just got back from seeing Lou Christie. Awesome night. We're talking good parking space, nice dinner, and I was able upgrade to 2nd row seats. Lou Christie opened the show, so I didn't have to sit through Bobby Rydell....heh heh.....it's twenty past nine and I'm home.

It was cool being in the same room with 'the voice'. Lou still has the falsetto and he did all the songs in the same key. Great night out.

[manho]

Real men and the high notes
Miranda Sawyer
The Observer, Sunday November 16 2008

50 Years of Little Richard, R4
High and Mighty, R2

Two music documentaries: one on the falsetto voice, and one on Little Richard, who, while not a traditional falsetto, certainly knows how to get up there. A very youthful 76, Richard was warm towards his interviewer, Sarfraz Manzoor, if not exactly confiding. I enjoyed his disdain when Manzoor brought up Pat Boone, the insipid white singer who covered 'Tutti Frutti'. 'Please!' exclaimed Richard. 'He made me want to jump up and take his white bucks off his feet!' He was also funny on segregation in the American South of the 1950s. 'I always demanded my way. I had a lot of mouth.'

Other experts, such as Charles White, his biographer, music journalist Barney Hoskins and Lee Angel, his backing singer, gave insight. But you wanted more from the main man. His drug-taking was skimmed over, his homosexuality unmentioned. I suspect that God took over. Little Richard found the Lord in '57, and the Lord has a tendency to monopolise gospel singers' conversation. Shame.

High and Mighty had a less promising topic, but delivered the goods. Robin Gibb presented, and, while he clearly did none of the interviews, did at least sound engaged with the subject, offering his own take on the Bee Gees' use of high-pitched singing. 'In the 1960s and 70s, all music was a melting pot, it was open season and falsetto was just one of those things,' he said.

The entire hour was about reclaiming the falsetto from unmanliness: 'It's as natural as using fifth gear on the motorway!' exclaimed one interviewee. Well researched and very interesting, the doc stretched back to the time of Charles II, when castrati singers were the pop stars of their day.

As ever, Paul Gambaccini provided some snap, noting drily that Mika's LP was the third best-selling album of 2007, despite none of his tracks being played on US radio. Why? Because Mika sings falsetto and sounds 'too gay' for commercial radio controllers. Mamma mia!

[cripes]

Male vocal cords are stronger than female vocal cords. It's a fact. When you get a good male falsetto singer there is an undeniable power there.

Little Richard can still do it, as can Lou Christie. Frankie Valli, on the other hand has to have younger men do the high heavy lifting in live performance (Brian Wilson too).

[Cat Stevens]

I saw Biohazard from Brooklyn NY last friday, in Belgrade's SKC.

They've kicked some motherfuckin' ass alright.

[dino]

Sir Cliff Richard and The Shadows have announced they are to reform for a final tour.

The legends will play 11 shows around arenas in the UK this autumn.

Richard, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch and Brian Bennett originally split in 1968, after a string of influential hits, including "Move It", often referred to as one of the first British rock'n'roll songs.

[cripes]

Saw You Tube Jukebox star Petula Clark belt out her hits last night.



Anyone who thinks it's gay to go to the Castro and pretend it's 1965...well...if you do, you have a lot of growing up to do.

PS--she was fab-oo.

[david]

Setlist?

[cripes]

The usual...River Flow, Honest With Me....

She did two sets. Fortunately she didn't put any of *my* faves in a dreaded 'medley' section so I got full versions of 'You're The One' & 'Color My World'. I have a sneaking suspicion she likes Steven Sondheim more than Tony Hatch these days. She's also like 94 years old....actually, she's 77. The voice is still all there. 'Downtown' was kinda crap. The wall of harmonies was missing. I have a hard time excusing these people for being sick of doing their 'one big hit' ad infinitum. I'm sure most of us who have jobs have to answer the same stupid questions all the time or do repetitive tasks. We're expected to do these things with good cheer....so sing 'Downtown' like you mean it, you old whore.

[digit]

hehe...every celeb singer needs an ike. "sing you muthafucka, dont gimme non a dat shit"

[cripes]

Saw Smokey Robinson the other night at The Warfield. I even wrote down the setlist--here's a rundown:


Going To A Go Go--great opener
I Second That Emotion--no problem
You Really Got a Hold on Me--yeah boy!
Quiet Storm--Icky Poo
Ooh Baby Baby--Huge…one for the vocal moments forum
The Way You Do The Things You Do--once again, no problem
Get Ready--ditto
My Girl--this song has been played so much on oldies radio…kinda sick of it, but no big thing.
The Tears of a Clown--this was one of my three wishlist songs. Kinda pissed me off. Smokey has two keyboard/synth players on stage but all they can come off with is this assy Farfisa sound…not at all like the record.
Driving (?)--I dunno…some sucky '80s sounding Quiet Storm crap.

Then Smokey speaks the words I always dread hearing at any show I go to--'We have a new album….'. I guess he did a classic covers record…so we get:

Fly Me To the Moon
I Can't Give You Anything But Love

Back to the fucking '80s with:
Being With You
Time Flies
I'll Do Anything(?)

Then the riff starts--my #1 wishlist song:
The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage--the best! Smoke sang the shit out of this bad boy
Tracks of My Tears--Yikes! My other wishlist song right after! I was pretty happy.
Cruisin'--I should've just left after Tracks. He did some stoopid audience singalong thing that lasted way too long….


Smokey is a pro--he just luvs up the audience. Looks good, sings good, all that stuff. Too slick? Maybe, but I kinda expected it. The peaks made the valleys tolerable.

One of the most diverse crowds I ever sat in. Lotsa cool brothers & sisters, lotsa Asians, and lots of Jersey Shore housewife wimmen too.

Another great night at The Warfield.

[manho]

"Driving (?)--I dunno…some sucky '80s sounding Quiet Storm crap.

Then Smokey speaks the words I always dread hearing at any show I go to--'We have a new album….'. I guess he did a classic covers record…so we get:"

clever stuff. he sticks a crap one at the end of the first set so the new stuff doesn't sound so bad.

[manho]

"Another great night at The Warfield"

yep. that's why it pays to get your ass out of the 'burbs and suffer in the city.

[digit]

wow thats beginning and end classic city

i have paulie and boby coming within 2 weeks of each other over here.