From: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org (support-system-digest) To: support-system-digest@smoe.org Subject: support-system-digest V7 #148 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 Sunday, August 29 2004 Volume 07 : Number 148 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [support-system] chicks w/ attitude [Dan MacDonald Subject: [support-system] chicks w/ attitude well...saw Chicks w/ Attitude last night in Royal Oak MI. Now I know sometimes people get pissed off when someone expresses a discontent with regard to Liz - but this was different. I understand she changed and made an album "she wanted to make" (i'm sure it had NOTHING to do with what capital wanted, right?) but whatever....I'm over the Matrix...I don't give a shit. BUT. I have a complaint about last night's performance. It sucked. It wasn't that Liz was having an off night - she was in a great mood, chatty - made lots of eye contact w/ the audience, smiled....i mean, in that sense - sure she was as charming as ever. BUT. Her sound was possibly the worst I have ever heard at any show - ever - including seeing local bands play in shitty bars in my neighborhood. seriously. i don't understand how someone so intelligent could make such a stupid mistake as using the headset. i don't even care how cheesey it looks - it is not good for acoustics and people can argue this until they are blue in the face - but this is twice i have seen her now with the headset, and both times it sounded like she was singing into a toilet. while flushing it. Charlotte Martin, Katie Rose and The Cardigans all had flawless vocals.... The Cardigans were perfect...i had high hopes for liz, thinking whoever was doing sound was totally on. i was wrong. Liz - sounded like she was singing in a bathroom, with the door shut and the blowdryer on. Supernova may as well have been an instrumental version. who is her sound person? for real. i know this is not her fault - but for crying out loud - this is HURTING HER. if this is how it is going to be from now on, I don't want to see her again. the sound was shitty in Toronto too, due to that ridiculous, disfunctional headset. lose it already. i don't understand why she is playing with it. and...last night...for the first time...i don't know, it rubbed me the wrong way. everything. she came out gyrating, she rubbed her crotch, simulated masturbation during "the underwear song" - and near the end, walked up to the crowd, undid the belt buckle of her jeans and pulled out her pink underwear. i know, funny. but you know what - i don't care about liz's underwear, honestly. i just want to hear her play her REALLY GOOD music (including stuff from the new album) and have it sound good. i don't give a shit if she gyrates and masturbates...the attention is directed TOTALLY on her body, rather than her music, and this is what sickens me. Comments from the crowd outside the theatre: "Dude - she wasn't fuckin' wearin' a bra man, damn...I saw Liz Phair's tits dude..." "Oh man...I'd fuck that chick so fuckin' hard" and the best: "I'd give her some hot white cum alright..." all from different guys...and no one seemed to care...like - this was the MAJORITY of people's thoughts...it was like she was gyrating to a bunch of frat boys. don't get me wrong - the nigh had it's good moments....i was actually impressed by Why Can't I, Glory, Help Me Mary, Bionic Eyes, but for the most part....all the gyrating, sex-looks and thong-showing combined with horrific sound - made for a boring show and it just made me wonder - seriously - who is her manager? who is marketing her this way? is it Liz? because if it is - she's so unbelievably OFF with everything she's doing. i know i'm going to get lots of "Fuck off dan, liz can't stay the same forever" - but i'm so not talking about her new sound...i'm talking about the fact that she doesn't have any sound and she's being pimped out to horny frat boys and 14 year old girls who are only going to ditch her after catching the next marketing wave next year. i don't know...sorry to vent on this - but that's what this list is for right? my friends weren't as harsh about the show as i was, but they did admit it was easily the worst liz performance (sound and show) they had ever seen - and i drag them to plenty of liz shows. i just hope this is a phase and not the direction liz is moving towards, because it doesn't work for her and it's obvious whoever is pushing this new stupid image doesn't give a shit about her music. that was obvious by the way her sound was ignored that night - and i have heard so many similiar complaints about her sound on this tour. either fire the soundman, or get a new mic, Liz. dan ------------------------------ End of support-system-digest V7 #148 ************************************