From: owner-sycophant-digest@smoe.org (sycophant-digest) To: sycophant-digest@smoe.org Subject: sycophant-digest V8 #73 Reply-To: sycophant@smoe.org Sender: owner-sycophant-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-sycophant-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk sycophant-digest Thursday, June 12 2003 Volume 08 : Number 073 Today's Subjects: ----------------- sycophant Lisa at Cafe du Nord [Juvenilia@aol.com] Re: sycophant Lisa at Cafe du Nord [StelthBear@aol.com] Re: sycophant Lisa at Cafe du Nord [TRman2323@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 12:21:05 -0400 From: Juvenilia@aol.com Subject: sycophant Lisa at Cafe du Nord Last night, I went to see Lisa at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco's Castro district. I had never been in this particular venue before, but it had a strangely pleasant, old ambience and immediately I knew this was going to be a great place for Lisa to perform. Lisa started around 11pm and played for about an hour. Maybe a bit more. She seemed very happy to be there and judging from her setlist, I think we were being rewarded for it. The highlight (other than the overall experience) was when Lisa was performing "Guillotine" and forgot the lyric "...a love, deeper than deep..." I shouted out the lyric to help her out and she was like, "Oh yeah, thanks!" Made me smile anyway. Also, "Angels Turn To Devils" was awesome to hear live and I'm so surprised she performed it. After the concert, I chatted with her a short bit and she remembered me from her last month performance in Montpellier, France. I asked about her website and she is still having problems with Earthlink and it doesn't look like her site will be operational in the near future. After a few minutes of thank you's, I shook her hand and made my way home. - -Robbie THE SETLIST (best of my recollection): ...two songs I can't remember Miamo-tutti Messages From Sophia Nobody's Playing Liquid Pig Pearls Candy It's Party Time Dream Glasses Off Lullaby For Liquid Pig From A Shell Paper Doll Into The Night To Dream* * = Lisa told us that "To Dream" was written ten years ago and only due to her mother's insistance, was it put on the album. encore: Wood Floors Angels Turn To Devils Guillotine Victoria's Secret The Darkest Night Of All - ------- The Ectophile's Guide to Good Music: http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/ - ------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with the message: unsubscribe sycophant If you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of computers, they would all get AOL accounts and send unsub messages to the list address. AOL users please read the instructions six lines up before unsubbing. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 12:47:19 -0400 From: StelthBear@aol.com Subject: Re: sycophant Lisa at Cafe du Nord I was there last night, too. She put on a great show, and it was really cool to meet her and chat with her beforehand. I explained that every time she has been to SF since that last solo performance at the Bottom of the Hill a few years ago, I've either been ill or out of town or SOMETHING has happened to prevent me from coming. She said, "Then I'll play for you tonight!" You've got a good memory! I had to write everything down. Those first two songs are, I guess, new ones. I wasn't familiar with them either. For the benefit of those who weren't there, she also performed "Reptile" before launching into all twelve "Lullaby for Liquid Pig" songs. - -- Tim - ------- The Ectophile's Guide to Good Music: http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/ - ------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with the message: unsubscribe sycophant If you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of computers, they would all get AOL accounts and send unsub messages to the list address. AOL users please read the instructions six lines up before unsubbing. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:21:10 EDT From: TRman2323@aol.com Subject: Re: sycophant Lisa at Cafe du Nord I was there too. I've seen her four times now (not counting her playing as a side-person with the Eels and Neil Finn) and this was the best show. She was ON. Robbie and Tim did a good job describing the show, but naturally I have to add my two cents: 1. She didn't have a bass player this time, just a little help from Denise Bonis on electric autoharp and keyboards. It actually enhanced the show in some ways--as Sean-www.guillotinelove.com-Barrett (he was there too) pointed out, it allowed her to go down to the bass end of the piano now and then when she wanted to build a song. Very cool effect. 2. The first song she played was not new--it's on the "Rare, Unusual or Just Bad" album. I forget the name though--the lyrics are something like "Giggle one, giggle two...". 3. The second song was new. At least I've never heard it before. There was some line in it like "one of us" and some metaphor about a heart rusting or some such. 4. "Messages from Sophia" contained the variant replacement of "We haven't talked for a while" by "We haven't fucked for a while". I heard her sing it that way once before, but thought I might have misheard it, especially after hearing her do it another time without that variation. Now I know she did it that way (Sean confirmed it). I guess it depends on her mood. 5. She introduced the "Lullaby for Liquid Pig" portion of the evening by saying that the album was about one long night she spent laying awake thinking about how lame her friends were (they'd let her down somehow) and how lame she was for having such lame friends, or for letting there lameness bother her so much--the album is about the downfalls of "needing things beyond yourself"--like friends, or alcohol, or recording, or whatever. Unfortunately Sean asked me something in the middle of this and I missed some of it...can anyone add any detail to the above paragraph? 6. Robbie wrote: 'The highlight (other than the overall experience) was when Lisa was performing "Guillotine" and forgot the lyric "...a love, deeper than deep..." I shouted out the lyric to help her out and she was like, "Oh yeah, thanks!" Made me smile anyway.' I recall it as her saying: "Shit, what's that line?" Robbie: "Love" Lisa: "No it isn't...oh, yes it is..." 7. She initially said she wasn't going to play "Into the Night" (she had the wrong guitar for it) but people asked her to do it anyway and she gave in. "I'm easy tonight," she explained "I had a cognac...just one though!" So it sounds like she hasn't quite given up drinking. Maybe that's the right dosage, one cognac a night... 8. Robbie wrote: 'Also, "Angels Turn To Devils" was awesome to hear live and I'm so surprised she performed it.' I was glad she did...it was my request! 9. Robbie wrote: 'Lisa told us that "To Dream" was written ten years ago and only due to her mother's insistance, was it put on the album.' Because "into the night" would be too depressing a finale. She started to say something else about "To Dream" and then said "Never mind". My impression was that she meant to say "I guess I wrote less depressing songs back then." But I'm speculating. 10. In conclusion, a great concert. Very generous encore--when I've seen her before, she wouldn't do an encore, except the most recent time at Largo when she played as song she had tried to play earlier and hadn't been able to finish. - --Tom Lucas - ------- The Ectophile's Guide to Good Music: http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/ - ------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with the message: unsubscribe sycophant If you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of computers, they would all get AOL accounts and send unsub messages to the list address. AOL users please read the instructions six lines up before unsubbing. ------------------------------ End of sycophant-digest V8 #73 ****************************** ======================================================================== Please send any questions or comments about the list to sycophant-owner@smoe.org