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Time for a thread about this show. It will be in Irvine CA at 8:15 at a park near where the 5 and 405 freeways meet. Free show. Parking is $10. Outdoors. Orange County.
I’m going to attend. Anyone else?
http://www.ocgp.org/2011/06/lucinda-williams/
I’m going…….how long will the set be, you think?
This will be my 4th show this year…..Viper Room, Seattle, Boise. The Portland and B.C. shows I had to miss.Awesome. I expect it will be a full length show. Meet us for eats in their food pavilion thingy before the show.
I just learned that the site of this show is the former site of El Toro Marine base that was decomissioned in 1999, I think. This was a major military base in WWII and Vietnam. It was also the airport Nixon used when he travelled to the Western White house in San Clemente, probably to plot and scheme out his nefarious crimes against the nation. It took the city 10 years to figure out what to do with the site.
Anyway, carry on.
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I just learned that the site of this show is the former site of El Toro Marine base that was decomissioned in 1999, I think. This was a major military base in WWII and Vietnam. It was also the airport Nixon used when he travelled to the Western White house in San Clemente, probably to plot and scheme out his nefarious crimes against the nation. It took the city 10 years to figure out what to do with the site.
Anyway, carry on.
Sounds like this might “cover,” in a sense, those phantom Fort Blank military shows that were once slated for Georgia and North Carolina. At any rate, here’s hoping the lawn chair situation is solid, Tony. . .
There is limited seating somewhere but I don’t know where. We are locked in to comfortable lawn chairs. I think they may even have built in cup holders. I haven’t used them since an EmmyLou Harris concert in Ventura last fall. We will be the envy of all. No word from Paul. I could bring him a chair, but it will be a dinky little stoopid one.
I believe this was the proposed site for a much-needed major airport for the Southland that was fiercely fought against by locals and cancelled. It already has the runways, but the noise would affect property values and quality of life.
Yuppity yup yup. The people who lived near John Wayne airport wanted this place to become a comercial airport to relieve the traffic and noise near them. The people in Irvine wanted no part of their skies being torn to shreds every 2 minutes by a new airport. They fought so long the military wanted to move back in but by then it was too late, the developers had it all sewn up.
I look forward to checking out the site.
Your Accuweather forecast for Irvine today: a high of 74. 65 at showtime. Low 60s by show end. With the marine layer, bring a sweater.
80 at my house right now.
Home at midnight. Getting up to golf in 6 hours. Setlist tonight, remarks after golf and hopefully a nap.
Can’t Let Go (false start)
Can’t Let Go
Buttercup (false start)
Buttercup
I Lost It (insert irony here)
Pineola
Fruits of My Labor
Ventura
Born To Be Loved
Ugly Truth (lLu and Blake)
Hot Blood
Real Live Bleeding Fingers
Essence
Changed The Locks
I Live My Life (Fats Domino)
Joy
Honey BeeBlessed
It’s Not My Cross To Bear (Gregg Allman)
Get Right With GodAnyone who has tried to play with crummy monitors will understand what
Lucinda was dealing with tonight. Crazy things can happen between soundcheck
and showtime. I am not sold on in-ear monitors.
The show was great nonetheless.
I’m hitting the links early as well.Muy buenas noches a todos, y muchas gracias por el buen show, Lucinda.
Sorry I missed you Los Doyers. I hope you golfed better than I did.
Etienne and I arrived at the park at 6:30 and met Stoger for dinner in the dinner hangar. Famed website member Paul From Los Angeles joined us halfway thru. The park website said there was limited seating but there must have been 40 rows of crummy folding chairs in front of the stage, where Paul sat. The 3 of us were to the side of the stage sitting in comfy lawn chairs on a lawn next to a recently planted tree.
Lu hit the stage at 8:17, all smiles and waving to the audience. The black cloud arrived at the end of the first verse of the first song; she stopped the band and told them to start over. She spoke to the sound guy about her ear monitor. They made it through the song and then a false start on Buttercup brought the misery. Lu was pissed, stopped the band, yelled at Butch when he kept playing, and grossed out the sound guy. Lu said “I can’t cheat the crowd, the band is too loud, I can’t hear myself”. The sound guy suggested some monitor repair but Lu shook him off, telling him “I’m fu.ck.ed”. They resumed and survived Buttercup, after which Lu told the crowd, “Sorry I suc.k”. I hope the sound guy has a good supply of Pepto Bismol handy. I thought I might hang myself from the nearby tree if she didn’t make it through the next song but concluded the tree was not strong enough. After each song she huddled with him, making hand gestures. Not good times.
I will point out that this was a free show in the park’s summer series and a lot of the crowd were regular park goers, not Lu fans, although there were a ton of Lu fans. Not everyone was digging the start and some of the children I suspect will not be allowed to go to any concerts for a few years. After one song Lu announced “Don’t worry, I’m not going to walk off the stage”.
Onward we went while an angry Lu belted out I Lost It, aptly named, and there were no smiles or good vibes until she introduced Blake before their duo on Ugly Truth. Hot Blood was next and Lu started to get into the groove and after Real Live Bleeding fingers she was smiling and laughing, asking the crowd “Have I redeemed myself?” The answer was yes.
During Essence, at the point where Lu sings she wants to get “f.uck.ed up”, the couple in front of me exchanged frowns and by the end of the next song they were gone. After Joy Lu announced that the power of music had healed her and a raucous Honey Bee followed. Off the stage at 9:30
After the encores Lu apologized for the false starts and the show was over at 9:50.
All in all a decent show. I hope Lu either solves her sound problems or finds a peaceful way to deal with them. This was my second show where Blake was the sole guitarist. Blake seems determined to play all new guitar parts on most of the songs, which is great on one hand but if you are looking to experience one of Lu’s songs with the guitar part you remember from past performances, you are out of luck. In this deranged fan’s opinion, a few of the songs could have strayed less from the tried and true arrangements. This is not a knock on you Blake. I greatly enjoyed your playing on the Fats Domino and Gregg Allman songs.
I look forward to more So Cal shows.
Good job, Tony. I’ve just come from five sets of tennis to approximate your 36-hole morning on the links, so I’ll add a few comments.
Once we got Tony off the balloon rides and Etienne away from the lead horse on the carousel, things moved smoothly in the Orange County Great Park toward an 8:15 walk-on, sans opener.
The “not going to walk off the stage” sequence was in contrast to the Kings of Leon apparently taking a hike in the Dallas heat.
Lu used the verb “disconnected” to describe herself vis-a-vis the audience during all that mess you capture around the second or third song.
She said she was made nervous by the “hard and fast curfew” she had been told to honor–and I believe I’m right that she added a labor union tag at that point. What the curfew hour was (if any) was never clear to me, as she ended not at the top or the bottom of a given hour.
Good to see Paul from LA at this “rock concert,” though as Tony points out, he had a third row chair with his name on it, to our huddling with the masses further back (no complaints though: it was a fine perch).
So let’s call that show summer capstone, a good if not great evening, and look forward to the fall slate. Nice to see Etienne, Tony, and Paul–though other Forum members were missed. As for lafayette, probably just as well you didn’t try it, as here’s a quote from the Orange County Great Park website: “There is no currently no physical address to the Great Park. Please do not rely on GPS.” Ha!
Facebook comments in regards to this show look to be very forgiving about the rough start. Two thumbs up.
@Stoger I knew there was a reason I didn’t attend this show, and that whole * there is no currently no physical address to the Great Park. Please do not rely on GPS* thing just verified as such. 😆
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