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sycophant-digest         Friday, May 16 2003         Volume 08 : Number 059



                               Today's Subjects:
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  sycophant Lisa's Performance in Montpellier, France     [Juvenilia@aol.com]
  sycophant Lisa's Performance In Montpellier, France     [Juvenilia@aol.com]
  Re: sycophant Lisa's Performance In Montpellier, France  [Christe Respess ]
  Re: sycophant Lisa's Performance In Montpellier, France  [TRman2323@aol.co]
  sycophant Lisa in London         ["Myles Cochran" <myles@mylescochran.com>]
  sycophant video from Morning Becomes Eclectic  [Sean Barrett <buzzard@noth]

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Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 09:02:54 -0400
From: Juvenilia@aol.com
Subject: sycophant Lisa's Performance in Montpellier, France

I don't know if I posted to this list before or not, but I figure now is as good a time as any.

I just arrived home from a month-long vacation in Europe and even made a special trip to Montpellier, France to catch Lisa's performace at Le Rockstore.

My friend and I arrived early since we weren't sure of how to find the venue, but it was a lot easier than we thought.

The show was to start at 8:30pm with Eleni Mandell, but everything seemed to be running a bit late. While people started to filter in, I noticed that Lisa was a few feet behind me drinking a beverage and just mingling with the crowd. Being that this was my first concert experience with Lisa, you could imagine how jazzed I was that I was able to see in person for the first time.

I walked over to her, introduced myself and shook her hand. I told her was I was from California and mentioned how strange it was that I was seeing her in France. She smiled and we talked for a short bit about France. She said she has been to France many times and loves it there, although this was her first time in Montpellier. We also chatted briefly about websites and I asked her to check out my Lisa site at waybelowtheradio.net (should be running soon). She wrote down the URL and immediately started to talk about lisagermano.com and how Earthlink (her internet provider) billed her $1200 in one month because of exceeded bandwidth and how pissed off about that she was. It was actually pretty cool to see her so personable with a fan.

I tried to keep my excitement down to a tolerable level and simply asked for her autograph on my CD and a quick photo opportunith, which she seemed happy to oblige me with. By now, it was 9pm and she told me she was going to figure out what was going on with the show since it was already running a half hour late.

Soon afterward, Eleni Mandell took the the stage. I wasn't very familiar with her stuff, as "Pauline" is the only song I've heard. She was good and her band played well, but I think Eleni was singing a bit too close to the microphone, as it was difficult to understand exactly what she was singing about.

About ten minutes later, Lisa took the stage with a guitar and a keyboard graciously borrowed from Maria McKee. She was very warm onstage and played a 45 minute set with one encore. One overzealous French fan started to profess his love to Lisa by the end and I could sense her discomfort, but she seemed to respond pretty well. Her performance was great; her voice was clear, and every song was played beautifully.

After about fifteen minutes, Maria McKee was next. I've heard a lot about her and know a bit of her history, but "Life Is Sweet" is the only album I'm half-familiar with so I suppose this was my first 'real' exposure to her. But she too, was awesome. Her voice is explosively powerful and her songs, while different from Lisa's, were awesome. She did play one song I loved, but never heard before. The chorus was something like, "We are all connecting dots..." If you're a Maria fan and know which song I'm talking about, let me know will ya?

Anyway, a great time was had that night and it made my first trip to Europe that much more special.

The setlist (as far as I can remember):

Stars
Miamo-tutti (dedicated of course)
Messages From Sophia
Nobody's Playing
Liquid Pig
Pearls
Candy
Paper Doll
It's Party Time
From A Shell (Lisa said she wrote this about Sept. 11)
To Dream

ENCORE:
Wood Floors
The Darkest Night Of All (a request from the audience. Lisa seemed surprise to hear it requested. Said she was inspired to write it when Lisa's grandmother was in a coma. She said it was about how easy it is to confess your true feelings when it's too late for them to be heard. Very good performance.)


Robbie
waybelowtheradio.net



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Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 08:59:37 -0400
From: Juvenilia@aol.com
Subject: sycophant Lisa's Performance In Montpellier, France

I don't know if I posted to this list before or not, but I figure now is as good a time as any.

I just arrived home from a month-long vacation in Europe and even made a special trip to Montpellier, France to catch Lisa's performace at Le Rockstore.

My friend and I arrived early since we weren't sure of how to find the venue, but it was a lot easier than we thought.

The show was to start at 8:30pm with Eleni Mandell, but everything seemed to be running a bit late. While people started to filter in, I noticed that Lisa was a few feet behind me drinking a beverage and just mingling with the crowd. Being that this was my first concert experience with Lisa, you could imagine how jazzed I was that I was able to see in person for the first time.

I walked over to her, introduced myself and shook her hand. I told her was I was from California and mentioned how strange it was that I was seeing her in France. She smiled and we talked for a short bit about France. She said she has been to France many times and loves it there, although this was her first time in Montpellier. We also chatted briefly about websites and I asked her to check out my Lisa site at waybelowtheradio.net (should be running soon). She wrote down the URL and immediately started to talk about lisagermano.com and how Earthlink (her internet provider) billed her $1200 in one month because of exceeded bandwidth and how pissed off about that she was. It was actually pretty cool to see her so personable with a fan.

I tried to keep my excitement down to a tolerable level and simply asked for her autograph on my CD and a quick photo opportunith, which she seemed happy to oblige me with. By now, it was 9pm and she told me she was going to figure out what was going on with the show since it was already running a half hour late.

Soon afterward, Eleni Mandell took the the stage. I wasn't very familiar with her stuff, as "Pauline" is the only song I've heard. She was good and her band played well, but I think Eleni was singing a bit too close to the microphone, as it was difficult to understand exactly what she was singing about.

About ten minutes later, Lisa took the stage with a guitar and a keyboard graciously borrowed from Maria McKee. She was very warm onstage and played a 45 minute set with one encore. One overzealous French fan started to profess his love to Lisa by the end and I could sense her discomfort, but she seemed to respond pretty well. Her performance was great; her voice was clear, and every song was played beautifully.

After about fifteen minutes, Maria McKee was next. I've heard a lot about her and know a bit of her history, but "Life Is Sweet" is the only album I'm half-familiar with so I suppose this was my first 'real' exposure to her. But she too, was awesome. Her voice is explosively powerful and her songs, while different from Lisa's, were awesome. She did play one song I loved, but never heard before. The chorus was something like, "We are all connecting dots..." If you're a Maria fan and know which song I'm talking about, let me know will ya?

Anyway, a great time was had that night and it made my first trip to Europe that much more special.

The setlist (as far as I can remember):

Stars
Miamo-tutti (dedicated of course)
Messages From Sophia
Nobody's Playing
Liquid Pig
Pearls
Candy
Paper Doll
It's Party Time
From A Shell (Lisa said she wrote this about Sept. 11)
To Dream

ENCORE:
Wood Floors
The Darkest Night Of All (a request from the audience. Lisa seemed surprise to hear it requested. Said she was inspired to write it when Lisa's grandmother was in a coma. She said it was about how easy it is to confess your true feelings when it's too late for them to be heard. Very good performance.)


Robbie
waybelowtheradio.net



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Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 10:39:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christe Respess <indiasbelly@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: sycophant Lisa's Performance In Montpellier, France

Wow - what a nice recap.  :o)  I didn't know about the
origins of From A Shell and The Darkest Night of All.

Thanks!

- --- Juvenilia@aol.com wrote:
> From A Shell (Lisa said she wrote this about Sept.
> 11)
>
> The Darkest Night Of All (a request from the
> audience. Lisa seemed surprise to hear it requested.
> Said she was inspired to write it when Lisa's
> grandmother was in a coma. She said it was about how
> easy it is to confess your true feelings when it's
> too late for them to be heard. Very good
> performance.)


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Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 14:39:22 EDT
From: TRman2323@aol.com
Subject: Re: sycophant Lisa's Performance In Montpellier, France

In a message dated 5/15/2003 10:41:23 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
indiasbelly@yahoo.com writes:

> 
> Wow - what a nice recap.  :o)  I didn't know about the
> origins of From A Shell and The Darkest Night of All.
> 
> Thanks!

Yeah, now all we need is an explanation for that Starfish Song!

Too bad about her EarthLink bill...makes me feel guilty for all the times I 
logged on to that thing...

- --Tom



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Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 22:36:53 +0100
From: "Myles Cochran" <myles@mylescochran.com>
Subject: sycophant Lisa in London

Sorry to be so late in posting this - went to see Lisa and John Doe last
night at the 100 Club in the west end - it was excellent.  The club was
nice, looks like it has a history as a jazz place, it reminds me a little of
the Bottom Line in NY but without the long tables.  It was crowded but not
too crowded, and you could drag around plastic chairs to put yourself where
you wanted to be.

The show was advertised as 7:30, but things being things, didn't start until
9.  Which was cool, because, surprise, Lisa played first, no opener.  She
just sort of strolled onstage and started playing.  For guitar geeks in the
crowd, on the guitar songs (maybe 15 - 20%) she was playing a Jerry Jones
Danelectro baritone (tuned a 4th [5th?] below a regular guitar)
longhorn copy through a blackface Twin, which sounded great, and was
interesting in that she sings a lot in a low register.  Her piano playing is
her strength, though, and was really solid.  She's a very good musician.

I just got Liquid Pig, so I don't know the songs well enough to really
remember what she played by name.  She started off with Guillotine (the last
song on Slide), which was pretty cool.  Then miamo-tutti (not dedicated),
then a whole string of songs from Lullaby.  She talked about how the songs
came about, and was pretty straightforward about a drinking problem.  She
said before she started that she was going to try to play them one after the
other, and we could meow or bark between songs, but please not to clap.
This, of course, led to a wide variety of animal noises as the set went on,
which was pretty funny.  And, as Robbie said, her playing and singing were
absolutely great.  She had talked at the in-store on Tuesday that her voice
works great on a mic, but around the house sounds pretty small.  It does
work on the mic amazingly well, even live, which I thought with the
breathiness would be a problem.  And her pitch is very, very good.

The audience was very much into the show, and brought her back for an encore
(Wood Floors).  She seemed genuinely touched by the response, said that
she'd had a shitty day and this was helping.

After she left the stage, John Doe came out and started, then Lisa played
piano and sang harmony on a tune, then came off stage.  At this point I had
to leave, but I saw her talking to someone on the way out, and said
something like "you were great!" as I passed, which seemed completely
insufficient, but that's all I could think of.

Myles



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Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 00:52:54 -0700
From: Sean Barrett <buzzard@nothings.org>
Subject: sycophant video from Morning Becomes Eclectic

I hadn't noticed this before and I don't think anyone
mentioned it, but the Lisa show from April 15th on
Morning Becomes Eclectic has a video links as well
as an audio link.

I can't link to the MBE page itself because the links don't
work (and I can only find the page by browsing, not using
the search), but I think the link to the video file itself will:

   http://www.kcrw.org/smil/mb030415Lisa_Germano.ram

If you don't have broadband it probably won't be too
useful.



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