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@Stan wrote:
The lyric book is a non issue to me.
Besides…how can you be sure who has lyrics up on stage?
Are they taped to the floor? Taped somewhere on the guitar? Taped to the monitor cabinet that faces away from the audience? Taped back where they go to get a drink between songs?
Who knows, who cares?
This lyric book may not be simply lyrics..it could be a set list, or an amusing anecdote she wants to remember to relate. maybe it’s a slight variation in the chord changes that Doug Pettibone suggested during his solo? ( You know..like play half the verse, then go into the chords of the chorus for his solo?)
I’m a great admirer of Ray Davies…a prolific and talented song writer. If you’ve ever seen his “StoryTeller” show…he uses a big over stuffed notebook on stage to relate early stories of the formation of the Kinks.
If anything, it adds to the show…and Ray was the basis for the creation of the VH1 Storyteller series, so obviously it became popular.
Would any of you criticize classical musicians because they have sheet music in front of them? “How dare they not have the music memorized!! They’re losing the inspiration, and ruining my enjoyment of the symphony!!”
BS
Big fat notebook on stage? Non-issue. Get a life, people.
You obviously haven’t seen the performance, so until then, your opinion on the subject is absolutely worthless to me.
Actually, it became worthless the moment you compared a classical composer who reads sheet music to a blues singer who can’t remember the words to her own songs.
To answer your first question of how do you know: Because it was literally placed on a table within plain view of every camera angle and she literally looked down at it at the beginning of every line of every song and then would look up and get into the song only to look down again at the beginning of the next line etc etc etc…this went on the entire show and with her constantly looking down, it broke up any rhythm of the performance.Music is a big part of my life and have only seen this a couple times throughout my careerand the times I did, the musician was “mentally exhausted”. Which is precisely why I came here and went registered to ask if anyone knew if everything was Ok with Lu.
I understand the nuances of live shows and teleprompters and sheet music placed on the floor for Guitarists etc, but there’s a reason why things like that are placed in a “convenient” place as to not give the audience any reasons you don’t care. To be so blatant about it, is something Ive never seen before. Touring is a very strenous thing and it’s impossible to be into the perfromance every single night and to forget lines to songs every so often is understandable , but every line of every
song?I’m a fan of Lucinda’s and I just got done watching the ACL performance and came over here to register specifically about this very topic.
I wanted to know if everything is ok with her that she would need a lyric sheet for songs that she performs or has performed, a thousand times.
If the reasoning behind it is simply because, she’s “forgetful” or that she’s just an “average girl” then I have to admit, it bothers me that she can’t take the time to remember the lyrics to her own songs, especially on a nationally televised performance. Her performance seemed disingenuous to me. I love Lu for her lyrics and can relate to her because of her lyrics. I consider her more of a poet than a song witer and to see her having to constantly look down at her lyric sheet and lose any genuiness of her performance and not to get lost in her performance and her words, annoyed me and as a viewer, I had a hard time getting into her performance.
As a fan, I took it personally actually and if I would’ve paid to see that perfomance, I would’ve felt cheated. You expect that out of performers during recordings of the actual CD but being so blatantly obvious about it during an actual performance, on stage ()on National TV) no doubt effects the performance. There is no doubt about that.
