- This topic has 13 replies, 8 voices, and was last updated 13 years, 5 months ago by
.
-
Posts
-
As this was “A Night With” , the venue chose to have this be a split set like we did in Charlotte. In the end it was a very solid show with Lu being talkative and the band playing great. There was a great moment in the intro to Kiss Like Your Kiss–before the show a man gave Eric The Tour Mgr a $20 bill with a post it note attached to. The note asked Lu to please dedicate a song to his wife and him who were celebrating their 38th wedding anniversary. Lu put the twenty and and the note in her pocket and when she got to KLYK she explained the song andsaid “I’d like to dedicate this to Leonard & Emily (not real names) who are here tonight celebrating their 38th wedding anniversary…” and then a short pause and with a comedian’s precise timing she said “And thank you for the twenty bucks”. She got a good laugh on that one.
Overall It was a great crowd -with a rather unfortunate exception -and I will be as diplomatic as I can with this but it became obvious rather quickly that we were suffering from what is sometimes known as the Gold Circle Syndrome. GCS is what happens when theatres, most often in smaller markets, have long time donors or contributors which earns them the right to sit in all the prime seats. Unfortunately they are also sigificantly older and not alwyas knowing what kind of show they are about to see. I wouldn’t bother to even mention this but last night was an extremely bad case of GCS, and it became more and more disconcerting once we hit the more rocking side of the set and most of the people right in front of Lucinda had their arms crossed and couldn’t summon the energy for a polite clap. Anyway, before I put my fot in my mouth, I think the best way to summarize it is to say that when we finished the encore with Joy and walked Lu off the stage, the entire place erupted with standing ovation -with the exception of the first few rows in front of Lu. Enough said but it was one of the stranger things i’ve seen in a while.
Here’s the setlist:1st set
Side Of The Road (Lu & Blake)
Jackson
Ventura
Something About What Happens
Overtime
Blue
Kiss Like Your Kiss (we had this as an either or with Blue and she did them both)
Born To Be Loved
Fruits Of My Labor
2 Kool
Ugly Truth (Lu & Blake)2nd set
Can’t Let Go
I Lost It
Drunken Angel
Buttercup
Those Three Days
Out Of Touch
Bleeding Fingers
Righteously
Change THe Locks
Honey BeeBlessed
JoyThanks for posting, TO. What you described has the makings of a pretty good music video (uhh, do they still make music videos in the 21st century? 😕 )
Thanks for the update, TO. I look forward to set list updates, and was going into withdrawal knowing the road warrior(s) are in retreat.
@Lefty wrote:
Thanks for posting, TO. What you described has the makings of a pretty good music video (uhh, do they still make music videos in the 21st century? 😕 )
I’ll try not to hijack this thread, but yes, yes they do. Amos Lee’s camp just released a very creative video for “Flower.”
Lu has only made one, as I recall from past forum conversation, and that would be “Passionate Kisses.” I truly love this video.
“Over Time,” according to our setlistfm data, had only been played 11 times prior. Kudos, TO.
“Over Time”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2XRVJJ42Y8terrific, terrific 1st set. but i’m always curious why you don’t mix the rockers with the slowers/softers songs. sets are always clearly divided between amazing & quiet and amazing & loud.
*
to my mind the best live version of over time is from jools holland:
Punchdrunk, while your observation is correct in regards to the “Evening With…” (no opener) shows, many of our sets actually do mix the dynamics around.
Personally, I’ve noticed the theater crowds being more engaged with the mellower tunes up front/hotter tunes closing out style of setlist, while standing crowds and open air venues like the varity.Nice thread, both in-Lu-siders and my fellow fans. I would tend to agree with Blake that the dichotomy between ballads and rockers is (thankfully) not as clear-cut as is sometimes interpreted. That said, I like the Charlotte-Fargo pattern of two Lu sets (though I am also fond of the pattern of yore, one continuous artist/band touring throughout and opening night to night). In this Fargo case, it gave the front row patrons time to come back to consciousness and have another glass of house wine I suppose. No quirky Frances Dormand-character-like presences, I’m assuming. Geez, I thought “Fargo Theatre” might imply gutted seats in former movie palace, gritty floors, but obviously not. At least it sounds like Lu didn’t comment from the stage on front row indifference: or did she? At any rate, here’s to what was no doubt a fine tour debut of “Overtime.” And here’s to hoping Rochester was a rollicking standing house, with no “Mayo Gold Circle” or the like.
you’re right, it’s not always that “obvious” as this time around BUT
i’m weird, so i’m willing to say that “can’t let go”, “right in time” & “pineola” (songs from the 1st half of some recent setlists) are mellow ones, for example. maybe because the first two are from the beloved (by rolling stone, by me, by the world) car wheels album, it’s hard for a rocker song to stay that way after you’ve listened to it a thousand times (joy is a different story). fond memories smooth and soften everything.
and the classic heavy-weighters are always on the 2nd half (honey bee, joy, change the locks, bleeding fingers, buttercup, righteously, come on, unsuffer me, those three days), so i think there’s a division and it’s even more evident now than in the 2009-10 setlists. i can see that not only looking at the setlists but listening to bootlegs.
but i’m not complaining! it’s just curiosity. i can’t imagine how something like…
BLUE
WRAP MY HEAD AROUND THAT
MAMA YOU SWEET
ATONEMENTcould be… uh, fitting.
With the two split set nights in Charlotte and Fargo we did purposely split the sets into the first set of the mellower stuff and second set being the rockier stuff. The split set thing was requested by the venue in Charlotte so we decided to try doing it that way and we liked it so when Fargo wanted to do the same thing we fine tuned it and did it again. There is a lot of things that go into the setlists and we are constantly tinkering with them, and there is quite a bit of thought that goes into them -some nights more than others.
yes, yes. i did not imply that the setlists were “lazy” because there’s a pattern. i’m just curious about why not mixing up everything, i’m not saying that mixing rockers & softers is better than leaving thing as they are. e.g., the albums are more mixed-up (buttercup . . . . . seeing black . . . . . awakening), even though this is not a great analogy.
the setlists from this tour are stronger than last year’s, although i feel that the sweet old world album should be more represented. 💡
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.