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A note to tonight’s concert goers, a Facebook posting from The Troubadour has the opening act at 8:30 and Lu on at 9:30. 😀
P.S. Not looking forward to standing all night on my arthritic joints but I will rock on as necessary. 😆
@tonyg wrote:
A note to tonight’s concert goers, a Facebook posting from The Troubadour has the opening act at 8:30 and Lu on at 9:30. 😀
P.S. Not looking forward to standing all night on my arthritic joints but I will rock on as necessary. 😆
Twenty-seven holes of golf this afternoon might well prepare you for the legwork tonight. Be tough.
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Something Wicked
Real Live Bleeding Fingers
Metal Firecracker
Drunken Angel
Those 3 Days
West Memphis
Compassion
When I Look at The World
Lake Charles
Ventura
Are You Down?
Protection
Foolishness
Seeing Black
Come On
Little Rock Star
Essence
Honey BeeChanged The Locks
Righteously w Doug P.
Joy w Doug P.Get Right With God
Rockin in the Free World
Off at 11:56Last night’s show is hard to describe in the usual terms. Here are some one word descriptions: crowded, loud, raucous, celebratory, and magical. Here is a 3 word description of me right now: dragging my ass.
I arrived late as usual to what is my favorite LA venue I think, despite the fact that at least half the time I have to stand for 2 hours in a crowded room. But the place has a lot of history and charm and it has stood the test of time as a performance space. Grumpymama commandeered a plush bench seat in the balcony in a reserved section but I was bounced out of there unceremoniously when I tried to join her. No seating for you! We can’t all be Grumpymama. I encountered Paul From Los Angeles in the enclosed bar room upstairs with seating but no view of the stage so I staggered down the stairs and took up residence way over to the side of the stage where I later encounted Cindy of FF fame. DDinNJ made the scene. We had the place surrounded.
Lu made a grand entrance after the band had started the opening number. Lu treated the show like a homecoming and the crowd responded accordingly. I think the LA crowd are Lu’s most fervent and long lasting fans; I would say that since I live here but no offense to her great fans across the world. But last night the Troubadour was ground zero.
Without going into detail on each song and a couple of technical moments I was pleased to hear When I Look at the World, which has become my favorite song on the new record, even more than Foolishness. The latter song received an even more evangelical reading as Lu made it clear at the outro that she was not suffering fools gladly. Being a fool, I hid until the song was over.
Doug joined for 2 songs and he and Stuart wailed like crazy from opposite ends of the stage. Lucinda was beaming and the crowd went into another level of delerium. Now they know how I feel. Rockin in The Free World brought what was to me the longest Lu show in memory to a close while Lu led the crowd in fist pumping.
I think all of these things happened but I’m not sure since I got home at 1:30 am and woke up at 5:30 so my brain is more scrambled than usual. My “no shows on weeknights rule” took a torpedo right in the engine room.
Great to see the FF members out in full force, representing the internet as best we can. Also great to see Doug, Matt Blake, Peggy French and Robert, and T.O. and band. Rock on with your bad selves.
Thanks, tonyg, for posting the setlist. Although I was seated in the comfortable Loft before the show, I moved downstairs by the stage near Cindy and tonyg for much of the music. Good meeting all the folks mentioned by tonyg.
Note that Wednesday’s show is also sold-out, and that Lucinda’s band will play the opening set. The KBB returns Thursday night in Pomona. Although Lucinda’s band uses the name Buick 6, the Troubadour website links Buick 6 to the European band with that name.
@paul_from_losangeles wrote:
Thanks, tonyg, for posting the setlist. Although I was seated in the comfortable Loft before the show, I moved downstairs by the stage near Cindy and tonyg for much of the music. Good meeting all the folks mentioned by tonyg.
Note that Wednesday’s show is also sold-out, and that Lucinda’s band will play the opening set. The KBB returns Thursday night in Pomona. Although Lucinda’s band uses the name Buick 6, the Troubadour website links Buick 6 to the European band with that name.
Cindy? Cindy? Not our “Lafayette”/cindy?
The other Cindy and you have met her before. She is a lurker in the forum but engages normally in person. So the opposite of me in other words. 😆
Interesting, after the show, sitting upstairs in the Loft at 12:30 AM, enjoying some wine with friends, watching a Troubadour employee diligently changing the marquee–opening two sliding windows, removing the individual letters L U C I N D A W i L L I A M S, carefully storing each letter in its alphabetical box, and newly placing letters for David Cook, the performer of tonight (2/24/15). Knowing the entire process will be reversed in 24-hours, with L U C I N D A W I L L I A M S being restored to the marquee. Maintaining the tradition of the Troubadour since 1957—no electronic marquees here.
Thanks guys sounds like a great time was had by all, so envious…
The Troubadour is certainly one on my wish list.
@paul_from_losangeles wrote:
Interesting, after the show, sitting upstairs in the Loft at 12:30 AM, enjoying some wine with friends, watching a Troubadour employee diligently changing the marquee–opening two sliding windows, removing the individual letters L U C I N D A W i L L I A M S, carefully storing each letter in its alphabetical box, and newly placing letters for David Cook, the performer of tonight (2/24/15). Knowing the entire process will be reversed in 24-hours, with L U C I N D A W I L L I A M S being restored to the marquee. Maintaining the tradition of the Troubadour since 1957—no electronic marquees here.
Poetic post, Paul. I don’t believe I ever found the Loft in my 3 or 4 visits there. I take it you didn’t try for any Harry Dean Stanton sightings down the way at Dan Tana’s?
Dan Tana’s is a guaranteed 2 hour wait unless you have a reservation, which you don’t, or you want to stand at the bar with about 20 people trying to look like they are not trying to look like something. The cool people go a little further down the block to the Indian joint called A Flavor of India.
Just to clarify for stoger and others: the Loft is a reception room upstairs at the south side of the Troubadour, overlooking the side of the stage. On some evenings, the room is private and reserved for VIP’s; however, on other evenings, such as Lucinda shows, the room is open to the general audience, with access by a sticker. When entering the Troubadour, and obtaining your wristband, a staff member may offer you a sticker, or you may request a sticker. The stickers are limited by the reasonable capacity of the room. The Loft has couches, chairs, a private bar, and a private restroom. You can hear the show in the Loft, but you can not see the stage unless you stand up at the glass partition, or move a bar stool to the glass partition. Most folks with stickers do not remain in the Loft, but simply visit occasionally to sit, talk, or drink between sets or songs. After Monday’s show, folks informally moved to the Loft to socialize, as the Troubadour staff worked to clean the main floor. Physically, the midpoint of the Loft is aligned with the marquee, which is why the staff uses the sliding windows of the Loft to change the marquee letters.
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