Melissa Etheridge Report
Jul. 14th, 2003 11:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walbournI doubt there is anyone in my LJ friends-list as rabid a fan of MLE as I (although I suspect ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tavalon and jeliza would give it the 'old college try'), but I did say I'd post more about the MLE concert @ the Pier last week...
When I went to her concert last year at the St Michelle Winery, it was mostly 'lesbians in gortex' sipping wine, eating cheese, and sitting on neat little folded tarps with their lawn chairs. The fact that it was an outdoor venue in the fall meant it was primarily hardcore fans, and in fact it was raining the majority of the set. Lots of sing-along participation, great energy as I have come to expect.
The Pier attracted a much more mainstream audience. It was her first date of the summer tour and she hadn't been on tour for nine months, so there was lots and LOTS of her famous babbling. It was cute as always. She had a new headset mic that caused her to fidget for the first half of the concert, and the venue's view of the sunset distracted her a few times during her set. She played a mix of old 'classics' from her self-titled and Brave & Crazy, a fair number of songs from her latest album Skin, and a few from other albums.
She started right at 8pm--tavalon and I showed up near the end of the opening act around 7:30p. She played through the first encore ending right at 2 hours, then came back again for another song or two. Her shows have a predictableness to them with the songs she plays, and the woman is prompt. Still, fans always get a great show from her...
The mainstream nature of the audience was telling when she did her usual solo-acoustic number while her band took a break. She did You Can Sleep While I Drive and I think I was the only one singing along. In a hardcore audience, its an audience participation number ala Indigo Girls. Then again, I wasn't in the expensive reserved seats in the first dozen rows, so maybe that's where all the hardcore fans were.
She also did a song from her up-coming album, which sounds a lot like her older stuff so I'm really looking forward to it. Angsty, love-obsessed, hopeful romantic song like the 'old days'. She also mentioned that her label is re-releasing her original self-titled debut album, along with some live tracks.
All in all, a great venue and a great show. No piano on stage, so she skipped the cover of Weakness In Me, which is one of my all-time favorite songs, but definitely enjoyable. I kinda missed the hardcore lesbian fan energy, but at least most people seemed to be into the show...
tavalon and jeliza would give it the 'old college try'), but I did say I'd post more about the MLE concert @ the Pier last week...When I went to her concert last year at the St Michelle Winery, it was mostly 'lesbians in gortex' sipping wine, eating cheese, and sitting on neat little folded tarps with their lawn chairs. The fact that it was an outdoor venue in the fall meant it was primarily hardcore fans, and in fact it was raining the majority of the set. Lots of sing-along participation, great energy as I have come to expect.
The Pier attracted a much more mainstream audience. It was her first date of the summer tour and she hadn't been on tour for nine months, so there was lots and LOTS of her famous babbling. It was cute as always. She had a new headset mic that caused her to fidget for the first half of the concert, and the venue's view of the sunset distracted her a few times during her set. She played a mix of old 'classics' from her self-titled and Brave & Crazy, a fair number of songs from her latest album Skin, and a few from other albums.
She started right at 8pm--
tavalon and I showed up near the end of the opening act around 7:30p. She played through the first encore ending right at 2 hours, then came back again for another song or two. Her shows have a predictableness to them with the songs she plays, and the woman is prompt. Still, fans always get a great show from her...The mainstream nature of the audience was telling when she did her usual solo-acoustic number while her band took a break. She did You Can Sleep While I Drive and I think I was the only one singing along. In a hardcore audience, its an audience participation number ala Indigo Girls. Then again, I wasn't in the expensive reserved seats in the first dozen rows, so maybe that's where all the hardcore fans were.
She also did a song from her up-coming album, which sounds a lot like her older stuff so I'm really looking forward to it. Angsty, love-obsessed, hopeful romantic song like the 'old days'. She also mentioned that her label is re-releasing her original self-titled debut album, along with some live tracks.
All in all, a great venue and a great show. No piano on stage, so she skipped the cover of Weakness In Me, which is one of my all-time favorite songs, but definitely enjoyable. I kinda missed the hardcore lesbian fan energy, but at least most people seemed to be into the show...
