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Since I have nothing better to do I’ll get this going now. I have seen Sean Rowe, the opener, before, I think people will like him. Awkward sentence structure I know, Mr. S., I am too lazy to fix it. Bill Frisell is on the bill also, I guess as part of the band.
If your going, say so. 😛
Flying in this afternoon!
Very excited about this concert.Hope to see some familiar forum friends there! -Mike
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Since I have nothing better to do I’ll get this going now. I have seen Sean Rowe, the opener, before, I think people will like him. Awkward sentence structure I know, Mr. S., I am too lazy to fix it. Bill Frisell is on the bill also, I guess as part of the band.
If your going, say so. 😛
“on the bill”, Tony????????????????????????? The man will of course be in the band, which should make this night special. You cover this one, I’ll try to cover the majority of the other 32, OK? Not that either of us can count.
…on Winter Break now, so it’s Lucinda time tonight on the West side. LA Kings won last night…. game tomorrow afternoon as well.
Grumpy mama and I are here and are looking for famous people. Los Doyers if you are here look for 2 disturbing looking people. That’s us.
Edit. Mike from Seattle has joined us. Fun!Bummer…we just left. We couldn’t see any part of the stage where people would be. I can’t believe they’d sell tickets to seats like that. I just drove past the Viper Room… scene of a great New Years Eve show. I hope there’s room at the Baked Potato tonight. I figured maybe Butch would be cut off from view, but not the whole act. What a bummer.
Frisell was smoking at the Woodland Park Zoo. Here’s hoping that tonight’s show shows up on Dime.Going to have to wait on the set list. It was a splendid night of music. The band included Greg Leisz, Bill Frisell, and a sax player named Charles whose last name will come to me eventually. Slumber awaits. 😮
P.S. See this note from Tom about Mr. Lloyd. Note humor 😆
Just saw your post -thought you had maybe seen the stuff on FB that we posted -he’s Charles Lloyd -he is a true jazz legend -but he was born in Memphis so at 16 years old he was playing with Howlin’ Wolf, BB King and Johnny Ace. He later was recruited by Brian Wilson and played on some Beach Boys records and also played Roger McGuinn’s first solo record. He is the closest thing that we have to John Coltrane. Just letting you know, because I have nothing better to do at the moment.
Ten messages in this thread and no setlist yet? OK Ok I’m slow sometimes too. But this foreplay for this one-off show is giving me the title of a music fest in Switzerland. Song titles please. Wake up in the west it’s almost 9 a.m. there, right? Tony, save the golf courses for tomorrow. Mike? Grumpy?
After a fabulous dinner with Grumpymama and Polly and Steve from Zoeys in Ventura, site of many immense concerts, we arrived at Royce Hall and had enough time to enjoy a fine wine with Samishseamike! Sean Rowe opened at 8 and played a pleasant set of tunes on his guitar, accompanied by his pal who played piano and drums, simultaneous-like.
Lu hit the stage solo at 9:04. Big crowd. She admitted later in the set that she was nervous. Bill Frisell joined for the second song; with just the two of them playing you could appreciate how awesome his guitar playing is and how he was sympathetic to the tune. I thought he sounded fabulous and he looked like he was having a good time. Greg joined for the 3rd number and he was of course stupendous in the extreme. It was at this point that a gentleman sitting behind me objected to my entering the set list on my phone and tapped my shoulder, actually smacked it really, and said “that’s really very irritating”. To which I replied, “more irritating than you?” He said my phone was too bright. After a brief debate we agreed that if I did not stop he was going to punch me in the face. Hence, no set list last night. I really have a way to connect with people.
Ventura was problematic. Lu was nervous. Rather than abort she rallied by the end and it was quite pretty. With the whole band playing, 3 guitarists, David and Butch, it got pretty loud, especially when Butch was expressing himself. Go Butch! Lu played excellent versions of Overtime, Blue, and Copenhagen, back to back to back. We were having a fine evening.
Charles Lloyd was the sax guy, a legend from Memphis it says here. I guess Lu met him through Greg and Bill as they all play together at some place in Santa Barbara. He added another element to the songs that had not been heard before. I don’t remember a sax at any prior Lu shows. He seemed ultra cool and played great.
When Lu launched into Joy I thought that was a bit premature but she came back with a 4 song encore, including a
lengthy Faith and Grace. She ended with a Sam Cooke cover and the show was over at 11:10.It was great to see the usual people it is great to see, especially Mike, who is going to all 5 NYC shows btw, Peggy and Robert, Eric F. who played tour manager for one night, Mark Humphreys, Matt Blake, Leanne McNeil,and T.O. Sorry we missed Los Doyers. I am now going to go stare out the window until the rain arrives.
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