- This topic has 18 replies, 12 voices, and was last updated 17 years, 5 months ago by
.
-
Posts
-
Lots of my favorite bands use some form of lyric prompting. Margo Timmins of the Cowboy Junkies has a lyric book. Springsteen uses a teleprompter. Dylan uses lyric sheets when playing the organ/piano. Before late 2002, I don’t think Bob used any prompting, but he would also rarely sing the song with all of the original lyrics in the right order.
I think, if anything, it’s Lu’s perfectionist streak that creates issues…I can’t recall any band having as many false starts as Lu does…she should just plow ahead, a lyric flub or two is not a big deal.
Why does anyone care what a performer needs to put on a good show ? Everybody is different and some folks have better memories than others. I myself have written songs (some up to 20 years old) and I’ve forgotten lyrics, melodies and chord patterns when I don’t play ’em for a while.
Ripley, a song can be written in an hour or over years and if you don’t use it, you lose it. Your comments always seem to be negative. Is this because of your affiliation with telemarketing?
@All I Ask wrote:
Why does anyone care what a performer needs to put on a good show ? Everybody is different and some folks have better memories than others. I myself have written songs (some up to 20 years old) and I’ve forgotten lyrics, melodies and chord patterns when I don’t play ’em for a while.
Ripley, a song can be written in an hour or over years and if you don’t use it, you lose it. Your comments always seem to be negative. Is this because of your affiliation with telemarketing?
*sigh* it’s a quote from the movie Transamerica.
I just get negative around “can do no wrong” type fanbases. They frustrate me because they go so far out of their way to defend bullshit things artist can do.
I think it makes Lucinda less of a performer for using such an obvious form of lyric prompting. If she is such a perfectionist than shouldn’t she care more about coming off as stiff and unprepared during her live shows? I mean on half the songs she does she is completely reading the lyrics word for word like shes at some karaoke bar or something.
She’s not that damn old to be this forgetful. And its not like she shakes up her setlist that much she always does the same 2 songs from s/t., SOW, Essence and the same ones from WWT and CWOGR. Even when she does requests they always seem to be staples. Like when she did Sweet Side in Florida, that is a song she does all the time anyway. It’s not like she busts out Like A Rose or Lines Around Your Eyes.
even the first time I saw her at the NO Jazz Fest, the wind was blowing and her sheets were flying and she was in a shit of a mood (damn, she was good that day!). Next time I saw her at the HOB she had a lyric sheet too. I think you watch too much tv and think Songwriters don’t forget. Look how many songs she has and she has to remember what city she is in yada yada. Most of em do it, or they just flub the songs! And why do ya’ll care?
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.