Long Beach (Queen Mary Park) Show, August 26

@punchdrunklove wrote:

take some photos, tom, if you can.

I’m actually going to try to take a little video if I can get away with it – especially of new songs. I have a little Flip MinoHD video recorder I’m going to try & get into the venue & use (they took it from me at Saratoga – I will be more careful this time… 😉 )

will you be meeting robert/KJR there?

I just spoke to his cousin on the phone (Robert was driving) – they may meet us at the Maya Hotel…

Tom

Tonyg’s setlist is correct; I will, however, repeat it below with some additional notes about Lu’s comments between songs:

“Hey, everybody”

1. I Just Wanted To See You So Bad
2. Big Red Sun Blues
3. Pineola
4. I Lost It

Here, Lu said she wanted to do “a couple of Louisiana songs.” She mentioned the 5 year anniversary of Katrina, and that there are still people in dire need of help in New Orleans. She mentioned the poverty that existed in the city before the hurricane, compounded by existing political corruption and questions about where much of the money donated has gone.

5. Crescent City
6. Lake Charles

Lu here asked if it “sounds OK out there”, followed by an enthusiastic yell from the audience.

7. Blue (David broke out the upright bass for this one)

After the applause died down, I shouted out, “Thank you, Lu!”, as this was the one song request I had made here in the forum in response to TOverby’s post asking for song requests (and he verified after the show it was indeed added “just for me.” Thanks Tom & Lu!). My “shout out” prompted Lu to talk about her recent “discovery” of Facebook, how her fan page has rapidly grown from 10,000 “likes” to 60,000, and how she & Tom had asked for song requests on her fan page. She recommended Facebook as “a great way to keep in touch with a lot of people.”

8. 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten (KJR got his wish! 😉 )

Lu introduces Val as playing with Jack Shit in the LA area & recommends going to see them play. And, she introduces David & Butch. Then she says she wants to play a new song about a “Bad Boy” that she still had “in her system.” She mentions it is the only “Bad Boy” song on the new album, and that it is about the same person “Jailhouse Tears” is about.

9. Buttercup

In introducing the next song, she says it is another “Bad Boy” song off of CWOAGR. She says she could release a “best of the Bad Boy songs” record & it could be a double album.

10. Metal Firecracker

Lu introduces the next song as “one of the most requested songs, if not the most requested.”

11. Drunken Angel

She restarted a verse during “Drunken Angel”, and apologized here, explaining that she has this “obsessive / compulsive thing” about starting songs or verses over that she doesn’t get just right, and that the band “is always on standby” for her to do so.

12. Out Of Touch
13. Essence
14. Real Live Bleeding Fingers And Broken Guitar Strings

Lu says here that “it is hard to rock out outdoors – the sound just disappears”, and asks again if it sounds OK. More enthusiastic yells from the audience to the affirmative.

15. Born To Be Loved
16. Righteously (Val, who had smoked on “Out Of Touch” & “Essence”, hit one out of the park IMHO on the solo here…)

“Thanks again for coming out tonight” & re-introduction of the band members, mentioning where each is from. Also, a big thank you to Chrissie & a mention of what a big influence she has been on Lu’s music.

17. Honey Bee

Encore:

For the encore, Lu introduces “a special guest” – Vicki Peterson Cowsill on guitar, “from The Bangles”.

18. Joy

For the fashion report, Lu wore a lacy, low cut black top, black jeans, and brown boots, 3/4 up the calf, with a strap and brass buckle over the upper and at the top. She wore her glasses the entire show.

The venue was absolutely spectacular (Lu & Tom both mentioned how much they liked it after the show). Right at the water’s edge, with the RMS Queen Mary nearby, a waning full moon, and a perfect evening with temperatures in the low 70’s. There were 20 rows or so of plastic chairs up front, with a generous amount of room between rows (although the chairs themselves were zip-tied together in each row) & with lawn seating to the rear. Oh, and the very nicest porta-johns I have ever seen (the ladies all mentioned their appreciation of this touch). A wonderful evening indeed.

It was great meeting tonyg & KJR for the first time, and seeing West Words, paul_from_losangles & WebMASTA once again. I’m looking forward to tomorrow night in San Diego!

Tom