Rae's live music appreciation thread

[Audio Girl]

I wish I had participated in this thread right after I saw the following artists (too much time now to be specific):

(1) Lindsey Buckingham -- January 30, 2007 -- Bass Performance Hall

(2) Rickie Lee Jones -- March 30, 2007 -- Lakewood Theatre

For those who are fans of these artists, I would highly recommend attending one of their latest concerts, emphasizing that Rickie Lee Jones absolutely blew the doors off the joint in Dallas. She is as amazing in 2007 as she was when I saw her in the late 1970s. Lindsey did a nice job too but the day following RLJ's concert, I was reading everything about her latest release I could get my hands on. That's always a good sign.

[nobody]

Saw Morrissey this week...great show.

Wife and I were both talking about how we didn't know if he'd still have his voice and all, but he was fine and he's got a nice big catalog to choose from. He opened with the Queen Is Dead (a great Smiths tune) and followed that up with ome of my favorites of his newer material, First of the Gang to Die. Show was heavier on Ringmaster of the Tormented than I would have liked, but the band was absolutely top notch (two full time guitarists plus a third who went from guitar to keyboards to trumpet, etc...and an excellent rhythm section) and he trotted out old hits like Boy With The Thorn In His Side, Girlfriend In A Coma and capped off the night with a killer version of How Soon Is Now. I was a bit surprised to hear him do Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want on one of the encores, and the whole night was a bit special as it was his 48th birthday and the crowd sang to him to get him out for the encore and he was getting presents passed up to him throughout the night.

I was skeptical about springing the $35 bucks they wanted for this show, but did it since the wife is such an old Smiths fanatic. But, in the end, it was a great show and may just have been close to worth it.