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@Towanda wrote:
Tonite is the night … OMG! I cannot believe it. Lucinda Williams is already in my city, Bilbao.
The weather was beautiful in the morning and is getting more clouds as the day goes on. The temperature is still high enough for us here. I guess for Lucinda and the rest of the gang, the temperature will still be agreeable for them.The tickets are ALL SOLD OUT. Of course. Who was doubting it? Not me. This mouth to mouth news work incredible.Lucinda Williams will be very, very welcome. Lucinda is expected anxiously by an amount of people who appreciate music as good as hers.
But, where is Lucinda Williams now? At this hour, at this minute, … No matter where she’s is relaxing for tonight, I know that she will give everything as she usually does.
I will be here after the concert.
Towanda
Glad you are excited, Towanda. I can´t vouch for where Lucinda Williams is at this moment (some three hours before ticket time), but I can vouch that the crew never looked better a few hours ago, at the venue itself. The Kafe Antzokia doubles as a restaurant by day, so I didn´t need a Michelin guide tip for my late lunch choice. . . . There were soundman Kevin, guitar tech Gil, Seth the new monitors guy, etc, pushing and plugging and hammering away. As the restaurant got crowded, a curtain went down and we diners couldn´t see them anymore, but tour manager Eric spied me and said hello just prior. Good omens all round. And since my Basque (erkal?) is no better than my espanol, I call that cancelling out and will just speak English for the duration.
swampdog, “Side of the Road” would bring the house down, don´t be shy as Cat Stevens might say.
Lefty,you´re here vicariously. Maybe a Dylan (Pos. 4th?) but probably no “boots.” And I didn´t mention it in my list of crew members above, but the first one I spotted, working her computer? Note the gender of the pronoun.
Cowboy hat, right Towanda?
@swampdog wrote:
I will attend tonight show in Bilbao but I got two 3-row tockets for Zaragoza. Anyone wants to buy on prize?
Cheers. I promise the setlist in the Bilbao topic. What a thrill! Joserranot if I beat you to it, swampdog! Ha, just kidding. See you there. Joserra is a nice name, but “swampdog” evokes Lucinda´s Louisiana roots more. I´m all for that.
If the “bull skin” is all parts of Spain, bigsubi, then yes, I’m five for five (I hope). Cartagena’s really down there, no? I’ll make it.
Lefty, I “set sail” in about 5 hours from the Memphis airport.
As for the two Toms, I’ll leave you to your little pom pom games: hilarious stuff, really. Who would have thought a photo of Tom Tracy during his brunette days would have been the impetus to get Tom Overby back posting on this Forum? Go figure. And go guys.
@bigsubi wrote:
I hope to buy my Lucinda t-shirt in Zaragoza and dressed with her in Madrid or Barcelona!!! 😉
By the way, where are you from Stoger? 🙂I’m just a humble Tennessee boy, bigsubi, southern USA. I like your posts, and the English phrase “dressed with her” evokes quite an image in my fantasies, yes indeed. Hope to see you in Spain.
Lefty, that “bona fide cheerleaders” phrasing is loaded for Forum readers: rah rah to you for using it.
Sylvia, Thanks for such complete setlisting. I responded to you in the merch stream too.
Countdown. . .
Sylvia, hopefully what you ALSO saw was a perky Carolinian selling said merchandise–perhaps with a “local” assistant? You’re not a waitress originally from Beaumont, by the way, are you?
Atonement, I’ll be in Cartagena too. Hope “The Hotel Habaneros” is not too much of a fleabag choice. By the way, I can’t find Parque de Artilleria or Patio de Armas on my guidebook map. Same thing? Close to city center? Gracias.
@ExileOnVainStreet wrote:
Hello Folks
I’m not a Berliner but I did make it along to the Berlin show. Lu & the band were first on (before Lambchop & Calexico) and played an abbreviated set which started just after 6pm and finished just after 7pm. There were no encores but Lu seemed to be enjoying herself greatly. I did notice what appeared to be a verbal altercation between one of Lu’s crew and another roadie with a lot of pointing to watches. A very enjoyable albeit concise set which was basically a cut down version of the previous night’s in Hamburg.
01. Happy Woman Blues
02. I Lost It
03. Drunken Angel
04. Pineola
05. Tears Of Joy
06. Out Of Touch
07. Changed The Locks
08. Real Live Bleeding Fingers & Broken Guitar Strings
09. Essence
10. Honey Bee
11. Joy
12. It’s A Long Way To The TopThe Hamburg (what a great venue) & Berlin (a great outdoor venue) shows were the first shows I have witnessed with the new band configuration and are actually the first times I’ve ever seen her without Doug on guitar. Chet certainly gets a few more solos and there’s also a lot more interaction between the two guitarists. There were one or two numbers where I missed Doug’s playing but the overall effect was negligible and probably just down to taste. I must say that I especially enjoyed Eric’s arabesque soloing on Essence.
Really looking forward to the UK shows in a couple of weeks time…
Gute Nacht!
Great report, Exile–and bilingual too! That “altercation” and watch-pointing is intriguing; I daresay Lu’s own crew should have been doing it in Santa Fe this summer, in the direction of Messrs. Gilmore, Hancock, and Ely (though their set was great). Anyway, I reckon Lambchop has more sheer quantity of band members than Buick 6. Thanks again.
Appreciate your words, webMASTA. I feel sure you are doing much more good than harm as regards Lucinda, which is what this is all about. And the invites seem to have subsided, for now. Thanks.
OK, I hate to post back to back in the same stream, but I’m now waving the white [cyber]flag of surrender to whomever (or whatever) is generating the approximately dozen-a-day Twitter invitations going into my private e-mail account–all under the same subject line. I give. No more sarcasm, no more anti-twit rhetoric. I love all things tw, truly madly and deeply.
@tntracy wrote:
@snakeman wrote:
any New York City area shows being added ?
thanks !
Given the open dates around the Poughkeepsie & Providence shows, I think the probability is very high. Stay tuned… 😉
Tom
Coy finessing of the NYC issue, Tntracy. . . When do you think some official pronouncement might be forthcoming?
Nice pom-pom imagery, Tony. Arguably, the “real” fans are in a different camp (possibly even a diametrically opposed camp) from the “illusory” or “cyber” fans, if I may parse webMasta’s language (well-meaning language I think, but language which gets under my skin the more I ponder it) a bit. I know there’s some genuine crossover in camps, which is great. Let’s hope no one has a “real” heart attack after getting “cyber” or “illusory” quasi-words from Lucinda. I mean, all that’s fine and good, OK she acknowledges you in cybertime/space, but this talk of being overwhelmed or unworthy is a bit rankling, disingenuous. But I’m a curmudgeon, maybe.
Yeah, that “real fan” challenge gets my attention, webMASTA. I’m still vacillating, though. Tony, did you cave?
@tonyg wrote:
Cave dwellers,
There is a link to LW’s Twitter posts on the News page of this website. You can read everything there, you just can’t post. I think that will work for me.
😛For me too, Tony. But were you able to scroll up or down beyond a limited menu of words? I got “cont.” at top, mid-sentence, and an abrupt entry at bottom also. But maybe that’s the limited-character Tweeter way of things. At least one actual polysyllabic, compound word (“striptease”) was visible to me, should be thankful for such expansiveness I suppose.
Several things (and please know, everybody, that I’m enjoying the hell out of this stream, even though my comments may appear overly sarcastic at some times and overly literal at others because I’ve yet to figure out how to enable the smilies on this Forum):
webMASTA, thank you. Lucinda “calls all [my] shots” too in some sense. I welcome the opportunity to be “patient and kind” with her even further as she “eases her way into” a world I’m not sure I want to enter myself. That image of Lucinda in the Rhineland “learning how to Tweet” instead of, say, visiting the former site of the Berlin Wall or the Hamburg clubs where the Beatles cut their teeth or whatever beer garden might be available to her is a priceless one. I guess it was no big deal that Lafayette gave part of Lucinda’s e-mail address a few posts ago, since you give the same portion here. I’m strongly considering rehabilitating that “Lucinda Williams Wants You to Follow Her on Twitter” subject line e-mail from my deleted file; meanwhile get those “squatters” and “midgets” up to speed (the visuals I got from those words were probably not what Twitter folk got).
Lafayette, you are the Queen of T, truly. Your advocacy alone makes you, unlike that one anonymous Lu-twitting fan, “worthy to follow” Lucinda indeed.
Paul, congratulations on “full-fledged” tweetdom (is there a “half-ass” option?). Now I know what you were doing in the aisles of the local Whole Foods stores by day in certain cities on Lucinda’s tour itinerary: Organic Flax Plus Multi-Bran sounds like a winner. Count me in your real-life “posse” any day, especially when we meet in the UK later in the month.
TN Tracy, can you recommend me a good book? I like that Plato analogy in your last.
That leaves Tony and Lefty, my fellow Cromagnons: keep bellowing proudly, guys.
