Tuesday August 17 – Ventura Theater

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  • #30302
    tonyg
    Keymaster

    Let’s get this started! I’m going to The Watermark across the street for dinner before the show. Have fun tonight everyone!

    #44069
    punchdrunklove
    Participant

    forgot about the time difference between rio and LA (you’re 6 hours behind) and came here fully expecting setlists and photos and links to youtube videos, and the show did not begin yet.

    enjoy yourselves.

    #44070
    tonyg
    Keymaster

    OK its 12:30 am and I am beat so tonight the setlist and tomorrow the report.

    I just Want to See You So Bad
    Happy Woman Blues
    Big Red Sun Blues
    Pineola
    Ventura
    Born To Be Loved
    Metal Firecracker
    I Lost It
    Buttercup
    Drunken Angel
    Out of Touch
    Seeing Black
    Essence
    Righteously
    Convince Me
    Honey Bee

    Side of the Road (with Doug Pettibone)
    Joy (whole band plus Doug)

    #44071
    LWjetta
    Participant

    @tonyg wrote:

    OK its 12:30 am and I am beat so tonight the setlist and tomorrow the report.

    Wow, what a list, looking forward to your report tonyg.
    In the meantime Lucinda is anything but “Out of Touch” on this video just posted.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptGlYrJcPjI
    lwj

    #44072
    Lefty
    Participant

    Thanks, tony. I’ll take that set list any day. Nice to see Doug’s name in the mix, too. 🙂

    #44073
    parkerca
    Participant

    Can’t wait to hear these new songs.

    #44074
    Lafayette
    Participant

    Very good to see Doug’s name on the list. 8) “Side Of The Road” with Doug? I’m breathless thinking about it.

    Thanks, tonyg, for the setlist!

    Many new songs…I’m lovin’ it.

    Looking forward to additional friendly forum members as they report in.

    #44075
    punchdrunklove
    Participant

    watched the video – it was a seated show then? in those cases, can people stand up or they would get in the way of the sitting people? is there a ‘space’ near the stage for the stand-up people?

    i’d find difficult to remain seated during 90% of the songs; terrific setlist, great video/upload, thanks for the link.

    #44076
    Lafayette
    Participant

    @LWjetta wrote:

    @tonyg wrote:

    OK its 12:30 am and I am beat so tonight the setlist and tomorrow the report.

    Wow, what a list, looking forward to your report tonyg.
    In the meantime Lucinda is anything but “Out of Touch” on this video just posted.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptGlYrJcPjI
    lwj

    Which guitarist is playing “Doug’s/Eric’s” slot? He kicked *ss on this song. Thanks for posting, lwj! Lu’s voice? Smooth as silk.

    #44077
    Tim
    Participant

    That was Val McCallum playing guitar.

    #44078
    DavidinMaine
    Participant

    Nice setlist… Wow, Big Red Sun Blues! Nice touch!

    #44079
    tntracy
    Participant

    Well, I just woke up in San Francisco to this set list. Great news! “Side Of The Road” as an encore!

    I can’t wait until this evening!

    Tom

    #44080
    stoger
    Participant

    Great work, Tony. Nice meeting you, by the way. Here are a few embellishments to the excellent posts above.

    “I Just Wanted…” had a few dropped lyrics, but it came out of the gate as a strong walk-on.

    Great to see Lu don her glasses after song two and say “sooner or later” she would have to.

    “Ventura” was done “in honor of the occasion,” but I missed the pedal steel on it.

    “Born to be Loved” is a slow burn of a gem, with lots of antonyms in lyrics for “loved.” She doesn’t play guitar on it.

    “Buttercup” was uptempo, another song about a user; she doesn’t play on it–my fave of the new four

    Before “Drunken Angel,” Lu launched a paean to Facebook and thanked fans for requests on it.

    “Seeing Black” has other colors in it too, tribute to Vic Chesnutt.

    “Convince Me” is rather honkytonk, she doesn’t play on it–“Special guest” was announced for it but never materialized.

    Doug was great, but “Side of” had 2 false starts and a profanity-ridden diatribe from Lu to the new monitors guy on stage.

    The “guitar throwdown” between Val and Doug was great, full of smiles on the stage.

    Chrissie-75 minutes-said Lucinda was “one of my musical heroes.” JP Jones (no Led Zep) was in tow, patrick ? a nice third. They stayed seated, and C occasionally played only tambourine or harmonica, causing her to say “I know now how Stevie Nicks feels” and “I may as well be serving tables out there.” But truly she played lots of guitar and took lead vocals maybe 40%. Yes, the dinner tables were “out there,” but Paul, Tony, I and others skirted them nicely. Good to see WEbmasta in attendance, to chat with Doug and Doug’s son after (Tim, they’re looking good). No Susannah at merch, no merch even until halfway thru evening. The journalistic heart of the weekly independent paper on this show: Chrissie and Lu “even share a hairstyle.” Oh well. Till Saratoga…

    #44081
    bob
    Participant

    What about the fashion report?

    What did she wear?

    #44082
    tonyg
    Keymaster

    Well I woke up still alive and I am ready to post my thoughts on last night, which I’m sure you all breathlessly await. It was very nice to meet Stoger and to see Paul again as always. It was also very nice to meet Cindy and Stoger was kind enough to make sure I talked to Tom O. and Lucinda, who thankfully did not recoil in horror when she met me. Tom O. was gracious as always in hosting the devoted fans, stalkers, and the truly insane on the sidewalk after the show while the Ventura Theatre security tried to shoo us away. I hope Tom is feeling better this morning after his stumble last night and if he isn’t he sees a doctor.

    It was 100 degrees yesterday and by the time I got to the theater, after a delicious dinner with my friend Etienne at the Watermark, I was hot and bothered and the theater was warm and stuffy. Or is it the other way around? The resin chairs were replaced by metal folding chairs and I indeed sat behind Stoger and Paul who themselves sat behind the dinner tables that no one seems to know how to buy tickets for. Chrissie Hynde and friends began at 8:05 and performed a pleasant set, albeit a whopper at 75 minutes long, of songs from their album that comes out next week. They were in good spirits. She and J.P. apparently are an item and the way things were going last night I expect them to be openly making out on stage by the end of the tour. Surprisingly, no one gave them the hook and they played until 9:20.

    Lucinda hit the stage at 9:47 with Butch, David, and the new guy Val. LW, the band, and the crowd were all excited to be getting started. I will defer to Stoger’s song assessments but will add that Lucinda seemed concerned about the sound on stage all night, and Val’s guitar mike was feeding back and ruinig his vocals and harmonica playing. Val gets an “A” for effort for surviving his first night onstage.

    For the encore Lucinda came out with an acoustic guitar and out walked Doug with his electric so I knew we would be treated to Side of The Road, which was awesome once the song lurched into gear finally. Great to see Doug out there with his friend Lucinda and they seemed very happy to be together in song. No Chrissie Hynde in sight for any encores which was a mild bummer.

    There was an insane white haired woman dancing in front of the stage during several of the songs who was also imploring the crowd to do likewise. LW and the band seemed entertained by her antics. I saw her out by the bus after and I thought we were going to have some more fun but she left before LW emerged from her post-show meet and greet.

    All in all a good start to this mini tour and I wish safe travels to our bus bound and train bound friends as they journey north.

    P.S I almost forgot I met Webmasta and he is as pleasant and friendly as he is web talented and we are lucky to have him in our web corner. Way to go Webby!

    P.P.S. The fashion report for Bob: LW is a blonde again and she wore jeans with cowboy boots, a tank top of some sort under a long sleeve blouse worn loosely, no hat, a big silver belt buckle, and the glasses as already reported. She looked nice.

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