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Your correspondent travelled to Oakland yesterday to attend Marianne’s show last night at Yoshi’s Jazz Club. It was a duo show with Doug Pettibone. She played for 80 minutes and was in good voice. The place holds 450 people and it was packed. We chatted after the show; she is very friendly and has a great sense of humor. I’m going back to see her again tonight and will return home tomorrow and will be going to see the band X on Thursday!
Exene and Marianne F in the same week: lucky guy. Did you get to chat with Doug and friend too, Tony?
Stoger, Liz didn’t make the trip. Went shopping with Doug today.
Second show tonight. X on Thursday.
Sheila E. hosted a birthday party for herself at Yoshi’s after the MF show. Major crowd and craziness.
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Stoger, Liz didn’t make the trip. Went shopping with Doug today.
Second show tonight. X on Thursday.
Sheila E. hosted a birthday party for herself at Yoshi’s after the MF show. Major crowd and craziness.
Hope you and Doug had a fulfilling retail experience, Tony. 😀
It was a grueling retail experience on the streets of San Francisco.
The show last night, Tuesday December 13, featured the same set list. Great performances again. Marianne had a toothache and spent the morning at several dentists. She was a trouper though and sang great and was in good humor. Maria Muldaur was in the audience but I did not meet her, as was the chief executive of the Oakland Raiders, another person I did not meet. Marianne’s very nice manager Francois told me the Raiders guy was a huge fan. I wished I was wearing my Patriots shirt. I got a coveted seat right in front of the stage.
About to board a flight back to hopefully sunny L.A. Marianne and her crew are off to NYC this morning for 3 shows at The City Winery. Anyone in the area should attend. They will be full band shows.
In preparation for my X show tomorrow night, I saw a John Doe performance on KCRW from yesterday, featuring Cindy Wasserman, and the Great Val McCallum on lead guitar, doing Never Enough from John Doe’s new CD.
I always “enjoy” reading how The New Yorker summarizes an artist’s career. From the “Night Life/Rock and Pop” section of the December 19&26 issue…
City Winery
155 Varick St. (212-608-0555) — Dec. 18-20
The British chanteuse Marianne Faithfull first rose to fame in 1964, when her rendition of the Rolling Stones tune “As Tears Go By” became a Top Ten hit in England. In time, though, she became a tragic emblem of Swinging London, owing to her tortured romance with Jagger, her struggles with drug addiction, an attempted suicide, and, for a period, homelessness. Since her first big comeback, in the late seventies, her voice has taken on a dark, husky quality that’s well suited to her powerful renditions of cabaret standards like Brecht and Weill’s “Alabama Song” and Edith Piaf’s “Les Prisons du Roy.”
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