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My second row vantage point by David Sutton should be great viewing for my 3rd Lu show at this historic venue.
I’ll try and snag a setlist.
Viv’s and others reporting from the Beacon have painted such a great picture of the show including the KBB which unfortunately will not be in Toronto.
4 nights in a row for this segment of the tour starting in Boston.
Sure hope the weatherman is kinder for the 10 hour drive to Toronto unlike Buffalo”s blizzard of the century yesterday.lwj
Here we go FF.
Great almost sold out show. (Massey Hall seating is approx. 2,800)
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I met singer / songwriter / merch. guy Matt Blake from Austin. I bought his CD “All the dirt in Town” which has Lu on track #3 and was produced by Doug Pettibone.
His price was $15.00 but since I mentioned knowing Roger (aka stoger) I got it for $10.00
Matt told me the tour bus had to veer way up north near Lefty’s area to enter Canada since all roads in Buffalo area were shut down. Stoger, my guess earlier about KBB was correct-2 members lacking proper passports to enter Canada.
Lu and David returned to the stage for the first encore with their glasses of red vino.
Not much onstage banter, Loved Stu and David’s riffs and the harmonica.
About when Joy came on a swarm of young gals came to stage level and started dancing up a storm. This continued to the rousing conclusion of NEIL’s Rockin’Most enjoyable evening. Now off to work and later I may add more comments.
By the way just before the usual Love, Peace…..Lu stated she loves to come to Canada and we Americans can learn a thing or two.lwj
Great report, long-distance friend. Sorry I missed your call last night. Sounds like it was a GOOD time. Way to pull the “stoger card” for that 33% discount! I may try that at the bowling alley this weekend!
@tonyg wrote:
Knowing Stoger finaly paid off!
How did you post that setlist? I was unable to do so. 😕
tonyg I brought it home with me and stroked off the alternates not sung.
Lu’s stage hand with the long black beard gave it to me at show’s end.
I then scanned the list in my computer, posted to tinypics images and pasted it into the forum.lwj
@Lefty wrote:
Great report, long-distance friend. Sorry I missed your call last night. Sounds like it was a GOOD time. Way to pull the “stoger card” for that 33% discount! I may try that at the bowling alley this weekend!
bowling alleys no, but my moniker is good as gold at most pool halls in North America, Lefty.
Great report, lwj, and nice bartering, eh! I had issues with purchasing one of Matt’s CD’s in Lexington. At first, the mobile CC machine wasn’t working, and when I returned, there were no CD’s available in the front of the house, boxed elsewhere. I’ll have to stop by the merch table in Nashville and perhaps score on that 33% discount.
Here is a review from ‘No Depression’, with mentions of the red vino encore, the dancing women (our Lexington show, several rows in front of us, had 3 women up at Joy), AND the reviewer was sitting with Neil Young’s brother, Bob.
http://nodepression.com/live-review/lucinda-williams-still-too-cool-be-forgotten
Lafayette, Imagine the discount you could get by showing up at the merch table with Stoger in the flesh!
@Lafayette wrote:
Great report, lwj, and nice bartering, eh! I had issues with purchasing one of Matt’s CD’s in Lexington. At first, the mobile CC machine wasn’t working, and when I returned, there were no CD’s available in the front of the house, boxed elsewhere. I’ll have to stop by the merch table in Nashville and perhaps score on that 33% discount.
Here is a review from ‘No Depression’, with mentions of the red vino encore, the dancing women (our Lexington show, several rows in front of us, had 3 women up at Joy), AND the reviewer was sitting with Neil Young’s brother, Bob.
http://nodepression.com/live-review/lucinda-williams-still-too-cool-be-forgotten
Thanks Lafayette.
The No Depression article is spot on. I did see Ron Sexsmith in the bar area at intermission. I’ve seen him once in concert. His hometown is St. Catharines, ON (where I currently work part-time.)
I think he opened years ago for Lucinda.(I’m sure stoger can confirm that.)Here’s a HQ video of NEIL’s encore song with the “conservative” Canadians up on their feet and arms held high.
I have to save this vid as a momento of a great Lu gig.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHKFxpnLCkI
p.s. enjoy Nashville.
lwj
From Tom:
Long Drive and an early border crossing at the Thousand Island station—good thing we didn’t have to go all the way to Bleu Cheese—but we made it to Toronto and the fantastic Massey Hall. Another great show -Lu and the band are just hitting on all cylinders. One person commented that he’s been seeing Lu since the early days and he’s never seen a show where it feels like a cohesive band as one unit-versus Lu playing in front of a backing band. It made sense at the time.
Tour debuts of Ventura (excellent) and I Just Want To See You So Bad. Great great crowd.
Now back to the US of A.”Maybe 2 Kool was a tour debut also? Or perhaps not.
Yeah, lafayette and I were close to scoring Matt’s CD in Lex, but it didn’t work out. In addition to the Pettibone and Lu components, former Love Band members Taras Produniak, Phil Parlipiano (sp?), and Jim Christie play throughout.
I’ve seen Sexsmith open for Lu in Memphis in ’01, also a couple of his headlining shows in the States, which draw considerably smaller crowds than his Canadian outings, I suspect. I believe Ron and his wife are tight with Lu and Tom.
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