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sycophant-digest       Saturday, April 29 2006       Volume 11 : Number 023



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  sycophant Lisa at Spaceland last Tuesday                [TRman2323@aol.com]

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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 20:06:47 EDT
From: TRman2323@aol.com
Subject: sycophant Lisa at Spaceland last Tuesday

Once again I made the pilgrimage to Silverlake to see Lisa play. Even  got to
talk to her this time, before the show. We didn't say much worth
recounting--I was mainly trying not to act like a star-struck geek (I think  I
was fairly
successful).

She played piano and guitar with Sebastian on bass, Craig "Motorcyle  Man"
Ross on guitar and autoharp-synthesizer (?), and someone named Greg  [missed
the
last name] on pedal steel. All the side people played very well in  that
excruciatingly polite way people always play with Lisa. Sound was  great.

Songs were:
    Miamo Tutti (I think)
    Are You Electrified
    Candy
    Pearls
    Cowboy (dedicated to Sebastian)
    In the Maybe World*
    Out in June*
    I don't Wanna be a Wire*
    Somewhere Someone's Sleeping*
    In The Morning*
    Love is Just a Seed* (she tried to play this one on  the autoharp thing
and couldn't get it to work, had to quit after a verse or  so)
    The World In Wonder* -- a song Lisa said had gotten  her through tough
times. It was written by Craig Ross. Yes! Lisa covered  something!
    Into the Night
    The Red Thread*

For an Encore she did:
    Party Time
    From a Shell

It wasn't the best show I've seen her do (best was a couple of years ago at
Cafi Du Nord in San Francisco), but it was good. She kinda turned up  the
"pretty knob" for the new songs, throwing in a lot of vibrato for her. Her
voice
wasn't at its best though.

Lisa looked pretty happy--the happiest I've ever seen her. Kind of a
betrayal if you ask me**. In fact (not sure this has anything to do with
anything) I
saw her before the show in front of the club and wasn't sure it was  her
because she was waving her arms so much. I don't know why Lisa Germano
shouldn't
wave her arms if she wants (she was probably just stretching)--it just  seemed
out of character somehow.

Abba Rowland (pouty punkish singer-songwriter) and Eleni Mandell (sultry as
all get out and sounding better than ever (though it was at least partly due
to  the sound; I've only ever seen her at the Makeout Room (in SF) before and
the sound is pretty bad there)) opened. Eleni played with a terrific bass
player who took some killer solos.

- --Tom Lucas

* These are from the new album; I'm just guessing at the names.

** joke



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