From: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org (support-system-digest) To: support-system-digest@smoe.org Subject: support-system-digest V6 #302 Reply-To: support-system@smoe.org Sender: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk support-system-digest Friday, November 14 2003 Volume 06 : Number 302 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [support-system] atlanta show [Valerie ] [support-system] headset microphones [Dan MacDonald Subject: [support-system] atlanta show emil lamented: But here I am (and where are you all? no other show reports? wtf?). slackers, all of us. i meant to post a review of the atlanta show earlier this week, but they've actually been making me work around here. bastards. first off, i have to say that her tour manager is an idiot for booking her at the roxy in atlanta on a sunday night. due to our location smack-dab in the bible belt, businesses within atlanta city limits cannot serve alcohol on sundays unless they serve food. since we'd gone to dinner and stopped to see a friend's acoustic performance at another bar, my friend and i missed the opening band, which was fine. we got to the roxy 30 minutes before liz was scheduled to go on. since we couldn't have a beer there, they tried to send us next door. "next door" is a freakin' sushi restaurant that was PACKED full of annoying people, so we walked up the street to a more palatable location for a pre-show drink. oops...it took too long, so we ended up walking in during the first verse of "mesmerizing." i was pissed that i missed "6'1"," and since the set list as i remember it is pretty much what emil posted (minus the stratford moment, dammit), i guess i missed "johnny feelgood" as well. we were standing close to the front, but right in front of the right speaker, so i had to strain to see the drummer. observations: lots of guitar changes, "divorce song" has no harmonica and i missed it terribly, really liked the arrangement on "flower." there were a lot of annoying girls there, like the ones behind us who screamed "this is our theme song!!!" and jumped up and down when she started to play "F&R." they were also really into "rock me." i'm 32 and the guy i went with is 40, we felt old, but it was interesting to look at the crowd and see who was into what songs. she had the head-microphone thing on, and she talked about it more than once, talked about how liked to sit on her couch at home and play her guitar, and with the head mike, she could do things like that on stage (not that there was a couch). it seemed like she was still getting used to it. her hair was down, she didn't have much makeup on and looked like EIG-era liz. maroon tank top, red bra straps poking out, these AWFUL cargo-hot-pants that looked like something teenage girls would get on delias.com with the button undone so we could see her red underwear (NOT faded pink - speaking of which, that song made me cringe visibly) and sparkly shoes. yes, she's in great shape, but she could have been more sexy in a great skirt. oh well. shame on me for commenting on a woman's clothes, i wouldn't say those things about a man, blah blah blah. it was just like she was trying too hard, and that made me sad because she doesn't need to. overall: experiencing the songs i've grown to love over the years live was amazing, but i really felt most of the new material had no soul, and i had a hard time with the discrepancy. but in the end, "divorce song" and "jealousy" cancel out "favorite" in spades, and i'll go back for more whever i get the chance. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:52:58 -0500 From: Dan MacDonald Subject: [support-system] headset microphones mister emil breton wrote: If you didn't already know, Liz is now using a headset microphone, just like she threatened to do several months back. are you kidding me? the fact that she was even contemplating "wearing headgear" somehow managed to slip by me, so you can imagine my shock. thanks for informing me BEFORE i go see her on saturday in toronto. that may very well have been the end of me. okay - is she using the headset mic for her entire set???? i thought half the glory of being on stage was doing the "rock star head tilt" around the mic, while you look at the neck of your gutar... for crying out loud. the set list looks cool. i'm actually excited to see Friend of Mine performed, i really dig that song. and jealousy!! that'll be cool. other than that - the set list looks pretty much the same as it did when i saw her back in august in detroit w/ jase...right down to the "Okay - real quick..." before Stratford. but - it's still cool - and it was some chick who got to be "the one" who yelled out for stratford, and i was insanely jealous, just as i am insanely jealous of you, mister emil breton - for being "the one" this time around. now i have a goal for saturday. i am however, more excited for the in store signing/acoustic set she'll be doing at Sunrise earlier that day. i'm dying to know what she'll play - - and i'm almost (in a really weird way) kind of excited to hear an acoustic version of Why Can't I - but - i don't want her to waste any precious moments of acoustic time either. and she better have a stand up microphone. aren't stand up mics better for acoustics anyway? u can control your voice level better, can't you? whatever. i am also absolutely PETRIFIED for that day, because the last time i had plans to see liz in toronto, i landed myself in a wheelchair for a few months with a shattered pelvis. and that was fun. dan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 15:29:48 -0500 From: "Michael Kaufmann" Subject: [support-system] Re: support-system-digest V6 #301 Emil you make me wish I'd been there too, but your point about Polyester Bride is the one that struck me. I just happened on it on a local low-powered station and was surprised at how great it sounded. I can't say it was my favorite when it came out, but it does really work. I'll bet even more so, when Liz struts it out in all its electric glory. Mike >>> owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org 11/13/03 01:15AM >>> She played a big fancy acoustic guitar on "Polyester Bride", and it was loud as hell. I can't remember the last time I got so excited over that song. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 12:40:45 -0800 (PST) From: Emil Breton Subject: Re: [support-system] headset microphones Dan wrote: > thanks for informing me BEFORE i go see her on > saturday in toronto. that > may very well have been the end of me. I *know*! That's how I felt when I read about it on the message board. SICK! But it's not as bad as you think, cuz it's not like there's choreography involved. She just feels more at ease not craning to reach the microphone. It does have a bad connotation, though, which the Nashville/Britney Spears crowd perpetuates. > okay - is she using the headset mic for her entire > set???? yes, and I'm so jealous I can't be there in Toronto this weekend for all that stuff. When I lived in northwest PA, I always made it to Toronto, so this is disappointing. I also wanted to say that I, like Valerie, enjoyed checking out the crowd and seeing who was into what songs. There were a bunch of drooling "older" men in the front row who were into The Underwear Song. Whatever. and the teenyboppers liked "Rock Me" -- but strangely enough, I think it was those teens who also started shouting for "May Queen" towards the end (I joined in, too, because I'd heard she'd soundchecked that song a few nights prior). Also, sitting on the floor before the music, I was checking out all the shoes on all the people around me, and there were a ton of Converse Chucks and those shoes that look like bowling shoes, taste like bowling shoes, but brother - -- they ain't bowling shoes! More overeducated, former hipster types -- vastly different from the Jason Mraz "co-headlining" thing. Emil __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 13:33:59 -0800 From: "Nathan Carrera" Subject: [support-system] Re: support-system-digest V6 #301 Emil, Did the 95 show have 'You Have No Idea' on it? Maybe she'll be reminded that it exists. - -Nathan >After the show, I gave her a CD bootleg of her show at >the Wiltern Theatre from 1995. I asked her if she'd >ever heard any bootlegs from that solo electric tour, >and she said she hadn't, and seemed pretty excited to >get this. I hope she listens to it; that tour was >probably the greatest thing she's ever done (apart >from the actual songwriting). >Peace out, >Emil _________________________________________________________________ Concerned that messages may bounce because your Hotmail account is over limit? Get Hotmail Extra Storage! http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es ------------------------------ End of support-system-digest V6 #302 ************************************