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Never even heard any of her albums before, but paid $60 for a front-row seat after hearing how much everyone likes her.

What the heck happened last night???

The show opened with Mr. Louvin’s great performance. He comes across as a true country gentleman, and his band was perfect. Each one working to create the whole, not to trying to impress us with how many effects pedals can fit on one board. A real treat, I’m very glad to have had the opportunity to see him and his guys. Especially infectious was their drummer, who showed true joy at being there. He was singing along and dancing the beat.

Now we get to Lucinda. What happened to her? Does she not own a hairbrush? It shows a complete lack or respect for the audience when a performer can’t be bothered with a change of clean clothes and a quick brush-up in front of the mirror. If she had been toasted or drunk, at least she would have had an excuse.

‘visions’, I was sitting at your right hand. You’re handle is appropriate, your description above is certainly of one of these visions, as it bears no resemblance to the show I experienced last night.

Ray, where were you looking? If you were looking at the stage you would have seen ‘the book’. Unbelieveable. I have never seen anything like that. If you’re a song writer, your songs are like your children. Do you not know the color of your childern’s eyes? I’m the same age as Lucinda, and I can’t imagine how anyone my age could grow up in the good old USA and not know the words to “Riders on the Storm”. Lucinda spoke about having performed the song with Robbie Krieger in LA. She could have used that cross-continent bus ride to learn the damned words or done us all a favor and forgotten about the song entirely. Pathetic.
The most mediocre bar bands in my neck of the woods can manage the words to most of the Door’s hits, this one included.

dsiebenh, the reason the sound guy was startled is that when a show sucks that bad, even the best sound guy can’t help it any. He knew how bad this show was, and he certainly wasn’t expecting any positive comments. He was looking for your lobotomy scars. Being the poor sound man at a a bad show is like looking at garbage through a magnifying glass!

MACCA, I hope you’re right about her never being the same twice. I hope to God that this particular one was unique.

And the band…is her management trying to play some dirty trick on her?
She had one of the ‘california roll’ guitar types, with a pedal board taller than himself, and an ego even bigger. He spent every song waiting for a chance to solo and inflict yet another crappy effects pedal on the audience. He brought 8 guitars onto the stage. That’s the number eight, folks. The best guitar players on the face of the earth rarely need more than two, but then again, this guy bore no resembence to the best of anything.

The kindest thing I can say abut the bassist is nothing.

The real tragedy was her great drummer. He had style and presence, and class too. This guy put on a great show, despite the fact that he had absolutely nothing to work with. I was standing right next to our drooling friend ‘visions’ here when he received the precious drum head. That’s a great souvenir, as the drummer was the only competent member of her band. Actually that isn’t completely true.

Lucinda has a great voice, and her rhythm playing was really good.
I’m a fan of the Gibson Southern Jumbo, and she really made it sound great. It was just so hard to enjoy it when the guitar player kept trying to attract attention to himself.

How sad. I came into the show excited, with an open mind hoping to see what everyone has been talking about. If this is the state of popular music today, count me out.

Gil Cruz – I speak the truth.