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The merchandise available at the Copenhagen show was pretty dissapointing actually. The t-shirts were rather boring and appeared to be of low quality. I think there may have been a baseball cap or something, but nothing really interesting or colorful. I passed on the stuff.
After seeing Doug Pettibone in Copenhagen this week, I can say that he certainly is a very fine guitarist. One of the best ever? Well, that’d be a big stretch. Yes he is very very good, but there are a million other studio cats like him in Nashville, LA, etc, who can do what he does. He supports Lucinda well, but we are not exactly talking about the most complex songs ever written. One thing that’s great about Lucinda is the utter simplicity of her songs. Pettibone subtly adds grace and power to those songs, and plays some stinging leads and sublime lines, many of which were written by other guitarists like Charlie Sexton.
>Best guitarist ever? well, no.
I tell you I saw Buddy Miller play with Steve Earle a few years back, and he’s another one of these brilliant hard core studio guys, that knows how to play behind a singer songwriter type like Lucinda. I think he’s at least as good as Pettibone, if not better. And his solo stuff is good too.
Don’t get me wrong, I was really impressed by Pettibone. He was perfect!
Hey Joe,
I didn’t stick around to try to meet her. Her bus was parked directly in front of the building, so i imagine that you could have met her, or at least, said “Hi” if you stayed around long enough. I know from experience that it can take awhile for the performer to make it out to the bus though.
I have no idea whether she made her self available to the fans, for signing stuff and chatting.
She played a solid two hours and It seemed as though she was willing to play for a lot longer. She kept saying that she would play as long as they would let her. Her stage manager came on and seemed to be hurrying her to finish, however. They are on a pretty tight schedule, i can see, and they have a bunch of shows in a row in places that aren’t exactly that close to each other, so I imagine she doesn’t have a lot of time for hanging around. She talked about having a couple of days to hang out in Copenhagen before the gig, and she said she really enjoyed the city espescially one 24 hour bar near her hotel. (God, I wish I know where that was and had stumbled in on the nights she was there.)
The place was really packed and there were way more than 100 people there, so it wasn’t quite as intimate as your experience with Mary Gauthier.
anyway enjoy the shows that you get to see, and hang out afterwards, maybe you will get lucky.
Dave
Hey Lefty,
I’m actually an American guy living here in Denmark, and while I’m not totally fluent in Danish, i can hold my own.
It’s difficult to translate “Rock on” into Danish. Most Danes would probaly use the English expression.
I still have Lucinda’s tunes swimming in my head the morning after, and my ears are still ringing. I stood pretty much right in front of Pettibone’s amp!
Talk to you.
