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find-your-mind-digest   Wednesday, October 27 1999   Volume 02 : Number 143



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  find-your-mind LJ at House of Blues, L.A.                    [Lim7@aol.com]
  Re: find-your-mind LJ at House of Blues, L.A.  [Miss Propaganda <rubyredd@]

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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 05:13:37 EDT
From: Lim7@aol.com
Subject: find-your-mind LJ at House of Blues, L.A.

Sorry to crash your nest, but thought I'd give y'alls a report from the 
October 25 LJ show at the sold-out House of Blues in L.A. 

First of all, the venue is really cool and intimate.  My first time at the 
HoB and I was not disappointed.  I thought it'd be crappy like the Hard Rock. 
 It was also very nice to see LJ in a close setting (I was right up front) 
than at, say, the Lilith Fair with a million people waiting for Sarah 
McLachlan to come out and sing "Angel" for the umpteenth nauseating time.     
    

LJ came out to a really cute version of "Pele" with Jill and Gabby doing some 
steps together, and then ripped immediately into "Here."  

For those who care about these sorts of things (and I know you all secretly 
do.  Y'all probably bought Britney Spear's CD and blamed the teenyboppers for 
her booming sales), Jill wore some cool olive pants with pockets in the 
front, and these white, strappy sandals that I was wondering how she was 
dancing and moving so well in them since they had a mini-heel.  I was waiting 
for her to fall on her face and thank God she didn't.  She had on a black, 
mid-sleeve shirt with butterflies or something cutesy on them.  The gal 
looked good.  My friends kept noticing her wedding ring.  Don't know why.  
They're odd people, I s'pose.  Gabby wore black cargos and a white tight 
shirt, Tia wore red tight shirt and jeans, and Kate wore a Liberty's shirt 
and black jeans.  Singh and Alex wore man clothes. ;)  Singh particularly 
looked good.  He smiled at me too, with those dimples of his.<sigh>  The 
technicians wore shorts and all had hairy legs.  

Tia, Jill, and Gabby switched off from bass to electrics, with Jill playing 
her semi-acoustic for some songs and Tia going to percussions.  Even Singh 
played electric for 3 songs.  He really did a good slide for (I think) 
"Summer Daze."

Can't remember the setlist completely, but they played "Bam Bam" off of "In 
Search of Manny."   Jill instructed the audience to scream their asses off 
when she said "Go" and to shut up when she'd yell "Stop."  We were very loud 
and obedient.  Jill looked like the proud owner of a potty-trained pet.

They culled songs evenly off of "Natural Ingredients," "Fever In, Fever Out," 
and "Electric Honey."  "Ladyfingers" was the third or fourth song into the 
set, and "Naked Eye" was two songs after that, so they did their "hits" early 
on.  "Nervous Breakthrough" was the last song of their set.  They returned 
for an encore with  "Christine," "Summer Daze," and I think "Devotion."  For 
the last song "Rock Freak," Jill pulled rowdy members from the audience on 
stage with her and they danced during the song with Jill and Kate.  The 
dancers all got to hug Jill and Kate afterwards, which I thought was nice of 
them to do (Some of those dancers were kinda scary).  Before "Sexy 
Hypnotist," Jill explained that she wrote the song in Vegas after fearing Sin 
City for so long.  She basically dedicated the song to dumb whores (not her 
words; she used euphemisms), particularly ones in Vegas.  

Jill didn't talk much before songs, except to say that we were a great 
audience, that she was kind of sick but that we were giving her energy, and 
before "Fantastic Fabulous," said that they had a "friend" in Singh's 
computer (a recorded Deborah Harry).  I was starting to think that LJ shrunk 
the rather large Ms. Harry and stuck her on the end of Singh's keyboard, but 
no, they just had her recorded voice.  Other than that, stage banter was 
limited.  Highlights were "Electric," "Why Do I Lie?"  "Alien Lover," and 
"Water Your Garden."  A great show, with much energy and lots of fun.  They 
performed their songs almost exactly the way they sound on record, but seeing 
them perform was great because they all have such great stage presence and 
they like making the audience pogo.  Any group that can make their audience 
members bounce like their asses are on fire are tops with me.    

A pathetic attempt at a setlist:
Pele
Here
Bam Bam
Ladyfingers
Don't Look Back
Mood Swing
Electric
Under Your Skin
Naked Eye
Alien Lover
Water Your Garden
Soothe Yourself (I think)
Nervous Breakthrough 
Christine 
Sexy Hypnotist
Devotion
Fantastic Fabulous 
City Song
Summer Daze
Rock Freak

I'm missing the songs they did off of "NI" since I rarely listen to that one 
and don't have the songs memorized.  Hope everyone else gets to catch LJ on 
their club tour.  They're quite memorable, I must say.  Ben Lee was also a 
really fun, charming opener (and no, I didn't see Claire Danes there).  

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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:17:32 -0700
From: Miss Propaganda <rubyredd@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: find-your-mind LJ at House of Blues, L.A.

Sounds like it was a good show....

....kicking myself for missing it....but, alas, no one to go with :-(

Anyhow, in sort of related news (this is what happens when I get bored at work),
Ladyfingers was released on karaoke recently.  I saw this listing and about
laughed my head off....I'm trying to imagine drunken folks singing LJ songs...I
think you know you've really hit the big time when there's karaoke cds of your
songs.  So anyhow, I thought this might be of interest to someone on the list
:-)

::::::::::wheeesh:::::::::

- -Sarah

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