I am hoping that someone will have some info for me. Is Meshell not coming to Chicago, because I called the DuSable Museum (where the concert is supposed to be) and they said that her concert there in July, has NOT been cleared and they are not sure if there will be a show there.

this info was posted by boukie69 when i asked her about the chicago show:

question: i am thinking about trying to come to chicago from minneapolis for those shows. do you know if there is a way to buy the tickets on the phone or online?

answer: i called the dusable museum for you. the gift shop is selling
tickets by phone. i'll post the number for you in a minute. they take
visa, mastercard, and american express. hope that helps.

okay, here's the number to call: (773) 947-0600. then you want to
press 5 for the gift shop.

p.s. tickets are $27 each, but for phone orders they charge an extra
dollar per ticket.

Apparently
tickets are only available at Coop's Records, The Silver Room, and the DuSable Museum gift shop.

it's listed at meshell.com, so it should be on.

I bought my tickets on Saturday at the Coop's on 47th Street. I would hope they wouldn't be selling tickets if the show weren't confirmed, though stranger things have happened...

M, as soon as I can get to a scanner I'll send you my tix for the Tour De Funk page.

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M, as soon as I can get to a scanner I'll send you my tix for the Tour De Funk page.

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thank you boukie69... for some reason i only have one so far this year

Thanks all..I am buying my tickets this afternoon. I was getting kinda worried. Good looking out...

Hey all.

The show in Chicago is definitely on. I know because my band, ASCENDANTis opening for Meshell on July 25.

You should know that there are two shows that night. One at 7PM and a later one at 10PM. Those of you in Chicago can purchase your tickets (I'm told) at The Silver Room, 1410 N. Milwaukee, Coop's Records, 47th & Lake Park in Hyde Park (southsiiiiiide) and at the DuSable Museum Gift Shop. (Oh, I just checked, Tasha already said it, you could call the Gift Shop and purchase tix)

I'm also told this venue seats 500 but with two shows most folks who I see at Meshell's gigs should be satisfied (most but not all so hurry hurry)

And yes, I'm very pleased to be opening for an artist whose work I greatly admire. We are going to have a great time. See ya there!

God's Love and Blessings
KM

are you opening for both times? (7/10)

thanks in advance for your reply...

Hey, what's up Matthew?

Yes, we are opening both shows, which is an interesting twist. I think it's because the venue is smaller (500 cap.) and they want to include as many fans as possible. Floetry is performing the week before, July 18. Ledisi is performing the week after August 1. This goes on until September with a new artist each Friday.

And I gotta tell you, it's been awhile since Chicago has had it this good. Those who can should come out and support. I personally would like to see this kind of thing happening every year. Last year: Rahsaan Patterson, Maysa Leak, Amel Larrieux (saw that show, she got many a new fan that night), Fertile Ground, Bilal... all at Chicago's beautiful Skyline Stage on the Lake.

dwele is playing this year too!

if i wanna go to both shows do i have to purchase tix twice, or is it one ticket for both shows?

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dwele is playing this year too!

if i wanna go to both shows do i have to purchase tix twice, or is it one ticket for both shows?

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I paid twice and assume they're gonna clear the house between shows. There is a different colored ticket for each performance. The 7:30 ticket is pink and the 10:15 ticket is green.

aight.

i made the leap... i bought a ticket to the 10:15 show. (the first one was sold out... and the lady on the phone didnt understand how i wanted tickets to both anyhow...she kept being like "so WHICH one do you want????" heh.

anyhow... i forgot to ask, is it reserved seating?

my roommate and i are driving from minneapolis to milwaukee, but does anyone know anything about buying a bus ticket from milwaukee to chitown? and then how to get from the bus station to the show? and then how to get back to milwaukee? this is complicated.

also, if anyone has a ticket they dont need for the first show i'd love to buy it..

greyhound's website should have plenty of information regarding what you were asking (i think...)

it was how i got to the show in san francisco in october of last year... yeah, greyhound sucks but it was either that or stay home... not a hard decision at the time since i was still unemployed...

as for getting into the first show... maybe kt can get you in on the guest list. you've been waiting and waiting for meshell to come to mpls for years... and even though she's finally coming in the fall... even though you've been reading what you've been reading... you're still making that trek to chicago to see her...

it's almost as if you deserve to go to that first show too...

i'm so happy you'll finally get to see a full gig of hers...

even if you aren't able to make it to the first show... at least go hang out way early so you can at least listen to rehearsal... it's my favorite part of the day... i love listening to her and the band work things out (one of the reasons i'm digging the kcrw performance so much...)

hugs...

There are still a few tickets available at Coops Records for both DuSable Museum shows 7:30 and 10:15PM you can call 773-538-5277.

Just a head's Up.

Peace.

Hello, everyone...

My friend, G., and I went to the 7:30 Chicago show. And, we both had a blast! Our only complaint was that Meshell's set was relatively brief (~45-50 minutes long...). However, there were two opening acts + an intermission period, before, Meshell, et. al., hit the stage. And, also, there was a 10:30 show, comin' up right afterwards, at this festival.

Anyway... Although I've respected, admired, and grooved to Meshell & her music since the beginning, about a decade ago, I just saw her, for the first time, in person at that show. On the other hand, my friend had seen her before, with the previous band. That said, I can tell y'all that we (me & my friend), as well as the crowd, had a blast...We were VERY satisfied with what we saw/heard, on stage.

Meshell & the band came out, and after she briefly waved to the crowd, everybody up there proceeded to go to work ... Sista spoke only a couple of times, i.e., somewhere in the middle of the set, when she asked "...Are y'all alright?", and, then, later, at the end of the set (as well as the encore song), when she introduced band memmbers, and thanked us for our time. In the meantime, Meshell & 'em proceeded to put on a show, where there was a seamless groove, movin' through dub, reggae, soul, a bit 'o blues, and just simply some stank funk to the highest power!

Meshell, on stage, had her eyes closed, steppin' from side to side like she was in a "zone" & feelin' that groove within. In the process, she also seemed to be directing the band with subtle hand movements, eye contacts, and other body language. IMHO, it was SOMETHIN' to see/behold/hear! As the set progressed, Meshell also began to turn to band members and smile ... I figured that she musta been happy about what was goin' on. Well, so were WE!

The selections that I recognized, that night, were "Fool of Me", "God.Fear.Money", and "Free My Heart". Since I've heard the sound files offered on this site, I can also say that Meshell & 'em performed "Love Song #1/Come Smoke", and, maybe, "River". Whatever...To us, it was ALL GOOD! At many points during this performance, *I*, too, closed my eyes, and found that "groove" that permeated that auditorium from Meshell & the band, myself ...

Other random observations:

1. The whole show started on time.
2. The auditorium was filled to capacity, with SRO (capacity=500).
3. It seemed to me that many, many of Meshell's real fans were in the house, for that show, as evidenced by the loud, enthusiastic reception for sista, at the beginning, as well as throughout her performance.

I hope that the dates given on this site, for Chi in October, are confirmed, since I want to see Meshell & 'em again, but in a full(er) gig, i.e., not just as part of a festival. I also look forward to her next releases, whenever they drop...

OK, then, that's my report ... I'm new to this site, as well as this board. Just wanna say to Matthew "Thanks!" for this site, this space, and the wealth of information provided here ... IMHO, Free My Heart beats that "other site", hands-down!

Later...

great first post/review Catwoman i'm glad you had such a great time... i'm also looking forward to someone else's review of the show

i know she had a great time too... it's great to hear how far this band has come.

one of the visitors to this forum said they were top notch, they just needed time

well, i didnt get to see her, but my cousin did and her report was great as well. she said it was the 2nd best show she has seen of her. My cousin has seen her several times. she saw the show at the coach house in san juan capistrano. she said the band was good, meshell was in the same eye closed vibe and i was sadly disappointed that i had to miss...NO MONEY!!!

As many of you know, I have been waiting and waiting for Me’Shell to come to Minneapolis for years and years… and it hasn’t happened. I did see her sit in for ten minutes with the Brother Jacques Project at S.O.B.’s in New York, but that was more of just a tortuous teaser than anything! So, when I found out my roommate was going to Milwaukee the same weekend that meshell was playing in Chicago, I jumped at my chance to finally see her play.

I left Milwaukee at about noon, arriving at the Dusable Museum at a little after 2:00. I told the security guard that I needed to get something from Kael Mboya (singer/keys for Ascendant who were opening for meshell), and he radioed another guard who let me into the auditorium with no questions! I sat down near the front and waited…I heard meshell’s voice about half hour later, and the musicians from her band started coming on stage. She was very careful to ask the staff’s names and seemed really relaxed and occasionally almost bubbly. She had on a blue adidas jacket with yellow stripes, navy blue adidas pants with yellow stripes, an orange and navy blue striped stocking hat and bright blue shoes with orange stripes.

It was really fascinating to watch the band members get comfortable with their surroundings and to make sure all of their equipment was set up right... Raymond Angry spent a great deal of time firing off various super busy sampled loops of music on his keyboard. They checked the monitors for each musician, so I got to see various combinations of the musicians improvise little things together. I could tell right away how much they all loved playing...cuz they couldn’t help but break into little jams during this process. Eventually they did a full band sound check that included Love Song #1 and then a more full rehearsal of GOD.FEAR.MONEY (concentrating on a breakdown near the end of the song, and working out a cue for it). Meshell is really intense to watch.... She seems to be very very affected by absolutely everything, and it is super easy to see what she’s thinking in her eyes and facial expressions, body language in general.

The other two bands sound checked and then a lady came around and informed those of us that weren’t in the band and didn’t have tickets that we had to leave. I was sad to hear this since I didn’t, as of yet, have tickets for the 7:30 show. I left my backpack in the front row..hoping that no one would steal it, and went out to buy a ticket. I succeeded, though the ticket lady was extremely rude to me (informing me I had to take off my wristband for the 10:15 show cuz I had not bought tickets for it, which I promptly attempted to inform her that i had)... she eventually realized her mistake when I showed her my ticket, apologized profusely and gave me like five drink tickets. I don’t drink..but I drank a shitload of this amazing southern spiced iced tea. This ended up being the only thing I had time to eat ALL DAY! This probably added to the extreme emotions I felt all day.

I went back into the auditorium and was thrilled to find that my front row seat was still open and my backpack was still there. I watched the first two bands (a really flamboyant, dramatic political poet, and ascendant, who played very positive funk with bass, keys, drums and two vocalists). I thought I was going to burst due to the anticipation….but finally, after much goofy ass drawings for prizes and whatnot (the whole neo soul explosion thing felt like a church fundraiser or something) the mc announced that meshell would play for forty minutes.. I think everyone was kinda like, “uh. 40 minutes? What have we been sitting around doing drawings for grills and shit for !??” but everyone cheered and the band filed on stage.

Meshell had changed into black pin striped pants, a rust and cream colored jacket, a green and white stocking hat, and black converse allstars with rainbows on the sides and red laces .

The musicians:
Bass vocals - Meshell
Backup Vocals – Sy Smith
Keyboard/Organ - Raymond Angry
Guitar vocals - K'Alyn
Guitar - Oren Bloedow
Bass - Jon Jon Webb
Drums - Chris Dave

Here is an approximate setlist (I think I may be remembering the order of some of the new songs incorrectly).

Pimpster’s Paradise
Started out with a new reggae song. This song had a really carefree, chill and significantly less probing, dark mood to it than the other reggae songs of hers that I have heard. I was smiling so big I thought my face was going fall off.

Love Song #1
Moody beginning that morphed into a very sade inspired reggae feel (sade meaning: “this is love-eh, this is how I love you-eh”…the lilt at the ends of words and the harmonies and straight forward dark timbre to the singing). This had some very busy cymbal and kick drum stuff goin on. At this point Meshell had been exclusively singing. It’s so interesting to see what direction she takes things. This song, as well as most of the other new ones, had very simple, direct, descriptive lyrics. “let me kiss your bodeh…fill you with love..let me feed your body.. fill you with love” Lots of looped samples from Angry.

Come Smoke
This one started out instrumentally with meshell on bass. She did some super nice bass fills: you know, when she does these fills that you don’t think there’s ANY possible way that they are gonna fit…. But then they do. And it feels so GOOD. Also… I don’t smoke weed. I am surrounded by people smoking weed every day. And I have never felt a real desire to smoke. But this song made me wanna smoke some herb. “come smoke my herb/make your heart like the ocean/ and mind like the clear blue sky” I am really enjoying the simplicity of these lyrics. This song has the kind of bass line I would expect meshell to improvise… placed really nicely in the bar with nice popping short notes within the line. Angry’s playing reminded me a bit of Federico on this one. Had a really really intense loud rock ending with feel good bass playing by meshell.

GOD.FEAR.MONEY
Super funky. All the transitions hit really hard.. Nice loud kick drum on this one. When they broke into the ending..where the tempo abruptly gets slower, it was so powerful I burst into tears.

Fool of Me
I had no idea what song this was for a good 3 minutes.. Started out with solo organ in funky, gospelly 12/8 (or some similar time sig). Then Meshell, the backup singers, and the band came in with “fool of me.” This was so amazing and bittersweet. It nearly broke my heart.. the juxtoposition of the powerful, simple, stark ‘fool of me’ from bitter..and this new arrangement. It was sort of like she was remembering the experience described by ‘fool of me’ with a little more distance between now and when it happened, and thus a little less pain.

Quentin Mack
The funky and political song we know and love. Funky bass playing.. slightly funkier, slightly more minimalistic drums.

Free My Heart
Started out with K’alyn, Sy and Meshell on vocals and K’alyn on guitar. I think this was the only song where meshell did her sing-speak-rap thing. It comes across a little differently live than on her albums.. more like she’s doing a combination of talking to herself and us.. vs on the albums where sometimes it feels more like a combination of narrating and talking to herself. It all felt very sincere. If one thing strikes me more than anything about her, it is her obvious sincerity and honesty in the way she presents herself.

River
How does she write these melodies that are so natural and beautiful that it seems as though they must exist in the universe somewhere.. and then she just catches them? They don’t leave you ever. They were in me after just hearing them once.

Fellowship/Forgiveness and Love

I think body was in there somewhere too. Or maybe I just heard her play it at soundcheck?

What’s interesting, is that usually I would/could provide a lot more detailed analysis of what went on musically after seeing a show. However, the whole experience was so emotional and overwhelming.. her music and presence is so mesmerizing, transfixing… though I did pay attention to technicalities, I was so completely drawn into her world, and her stories, and ideas… that I’d rather discuss those aspects than every last detail of every last transition and groove in each song. I think that means it was an amazing show.. for the most part the band and meshell (particularly meshell) transcended their instruments and just made music. There were certain things about various people’s playing where this wasn’t necessarily true.. sort of reminds me why I am sad that I will never see the brethren interact live.

Now a little bit about the musicans:

Meshell~
well. She’s fucking amazing. I now know why people fly all over the country to see her play. I had so many expectations… and she just went beyond all that. It wasn’t even about, “she can play bass unlike anyone else because of the way she places shit in the bar… blah blah blah.” It was just… she has this incredible, humble, beautiful, artistic spirit. And she really can play the bass unlike anyone else. It was blatantly obvious when she’d stop playing bass and it would be just jon-jon. TOTALLY different feels and sounds. In fact, a few times I believe she just picked up her bass to correct the way jon-jon was playing her lines….

She did not speak to the audience much at all… I felt as though I was peering in on her own world in her head. I felt rather privileged to be listening in on her most intimate thoughts. It was great to see her turning around and smiling at her bandmates.

Backup Vocals – Sy Smith~
though her voice is a bit more twangy and abrasive than meshell and k’alyn’s (how could anyone’s NOT be?) she blended well when appropriate and stood out when she did a couple more extensive vocal improvisations by herself. Overall, I think she worked really well with(in) the sound… I’ve always complained about meshell’s backup singers sounding really oddly out of tune on bootlegs, and did not notice this at all with Sy or k’alyn.

Keyboard/Organ - Raymond Angry~
I saw Angry play one other time in NYC at the above mentioned Brother Jacques Project show where meshell sat in. I was a pretty critical of his playing at that show (I enjoyed it…but had a lot to say about things I wasn’t that into). I thought his playing with meshell’s band was about 17 times more interesting and just better. He did suffer from the thing that is my chief complaint about most of the musicians that are currently playing with meshell… I think at times he just played too many goddamn notes. He did, however, make use of these really interesting, notey, sampled loops. I wonder if he made them or if meshell did. I really did dig his playing, though..everything he did felt really natural and sincere. the organ appeared to be an extention of his body.

Guitar vocals - K'alyn~
K’Alyn has this voice… that reminds me of honey. In fact, it’s totally angelic. He and meshell sound so beautiful together. He did a vocal improvisation with delay effects. He looks so joyful when he plays and sings. It seems as though he could be classified as playing “rhythm guitar” more-so than oren. (like he often was playing the off-beats in the reggae tunes.)

Guitar - Oren Bloedow~
It was really interesting to see how oren fit in. I thought his playing was the most different from anyone else in the band: meaning his was the most jazz influenced, and had the most unique rhythmic sound. In fact, I think his concept of rhythm almost borders on awkward, but ends up sounding really interesting. He played some really thoughtful solos. Nice to hear. Other than meshell, he was the most careful/selective about how many notes he was playing.

Bass - Jon Jon Webb~
Jon-Jon looked thrilled to be up there. I don’t know how I feel about his playing in combination with meshell’s playing and composing. He was really loose sounding compared to meshell, and had a way less focused sound. Whenever she stopped playing and he remained I felt a sort of gaping hole. But, he was so enthusiastic… and his playing was generally tight.

Drums - Chris Dave~
Mr. Dave definitely has maintained that “complicated r&b drumming” mentality. He was wayyyyyyyyyy into adding these complex 3 against 2 hemiolas to every single song. While this sounded sort of impressive, it got pretty irritating after a while. I particularly enjoyed his playing on Quentin mack. He was also really solid on GOD.FEAR.MONEY. he did seem to use some dynamics… though most of them were loud ones! He did do some really interesting fills that shared that quality of “is he gonna make it!??????” with someof meshell’s fills. I like when drummers fuck around with the time. I also loved the way that chris and Raymond interacted.

I probably sound pretty negative in the above descriptions… I don’t mean to at all… it’s just that meshell’s playing was so absolutely amazing and flawless to me that any things about the other musicians that I felt were discrepancies were incredibly conspicuous as a result. Of course, I totally acknowledge the fact that all of these things are my personal opinion. I also acknowledge the fact that these musicians have only been playing together for a few months with very very little rehearsal… so, especially, with taking that into consideration they really were incredibly tight. I would guess that they are definitely leaning toward realizing meshell’s vision.

In between the two shows the band was chillin outside of the museum, so I did get to meet meshell briefly. I told her how much of a musical and moral inspiration she is to me, as well as how much i appreciate her capacity for change, evolution and revolution J. She seemed really really humble, almost uncomfortable to be receiving these compliments and even sort of shy. She gave off a very caring, gentle almost delicate vibe.. she also seemed to be staying inside herself a bit. Unfortunately, at that point I got all star struck and wanted some physical evidence to remind myself of meeting her and asked for her signature. I had nothing with me except my purse, and my flute (which I was intending to play at the open mic). So I suggested she sign my flute case…. She looked incredibly uncomfortable and told me she felt weird about that. I told I understood (which I do) and felt like a total ass. Oh well. WHY AM I A FUCKING NERD?????????

I spoke with Raymond (who remembered me from the s.o.b.’s show) and k’alyn, who is a particularly graceful, humble and beautiful human being.

The second show was a lot better than the first… though it seemed like it really flew by. The band seemed more comfortable, seemed to interact more and with more ease… and there was some additional improvisation that happened. I believe they played for a good hour and 15 minutes or 30 minutes at the first show… it’s possible they did the same for the second. I was really happy that they went overtime for the first show. Really really happy. In fact they went over enough so that the second show had to start late! Meshell took off the jacket and was rocking a NO WAR t-shirt with an undershirt underneath. I believe she also had a a stocking cap with Rasta colors.

After the show I bought a thong that said “can’t nobody eat my pussy the way you do” this continues to make me giggle.

I found directions to the after party which was at the dragon room on the north side of Chicago. It took me forever to find it. The flyer described it as being the official after party and an event for open minded people. Sweet huh? So I eventually got there,
and parked. i get to the door and there's two large black men and two large black women acting as door people. i ask "is it bad to park there?" and i point to my car. dude's like: "do you like black men? cuz if u do i'll protect you"
and then the woman is like "you like black women? cuz i'll protect you too"

and i was like ....
uh
" i was just hoping i wouldnt get towed"
lol
and they are like "you have a cute booty" and i am like "thanks.... ok imma go in now." then they are like "do you know what "for open minded folks" means?" i think about it for a second and think to myself. "well..yeah. but not in this context...lol." but i say "yeah. for sure"
so i go in.....
and it all becomes incredibly clear. i'm like OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. i seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. it's this crazy club that must have been something else before it was a club... like a warehouse... but it has multiple floors, bars, lofts, etc. and i believe there was one other white person there. and it was about 80% women. 77% of whom must have been bi or gay. and various folks doing their things being announced by a dj: a naked black girl dancing, a michael jackson imitator, a half naked girl.... etc. lots of women dancing together on the dance floor. and a roped off room where everyone from the band was except meshell and sy (i think). they came out and chilled in the other parts as well. i talked with k'alyn and raymond a bit. they invited me to this other party...so her sound engineer, bernardo, came with me and we followed raymond, k'alyn, jon-jon.....but eventually gave up.

After dropping off bernardo I found the highway and started heading back toward Milwaukee. Now keep in mind, I still hadn’t had a chance to eat or sleep in a whole day (it was almost 7 in the morning at this point). So as I noticed myself frequently starting to veer off the highway (or expressway as these Chicago folks call it) I decided to pull over and sleep. At this point I noticed the air conditioner had stopped working.

So I slept for about a half hour and started out again. Not twenty minutes later the car started smelling funny, the change battery light went on, the power steering went out, AND the hood started smoking!!!!! So I pulled over to the side of the highway, swearing profusely. I was terrified. The last time I went out of town the vehicle I was in broke down in a similar manner and then after that I was in a near fatal car addicent in the bar we called!!! So I was NOT happy about this situation. Not to mention the fact that I was driving my roommate’s car. ARGH. So I call her, and she comes to get me… and we realize that I somehow lost the keys!!!!! Her ONLY set of keys! Isn’t this fucking awesome? So… I still don’t know what all is going to happen with that. God bless triple AAA i guess.

All in all, seeing meshell met all of my expectations, transcended them, and left me full but incredibly hungry for more. My experience was:
a) Extraordinarily inspiring.
b) A real wake up call. I need to get off my ass and work harder at making sure I am playing music that truly moves me. I mostly play hip hop right now, and while I love it, the music doesn’t move me the way that a music with more development can.
c) I want and need to play with people who want to project a similar narrative of what’s important on this planet to what I believe is important. Sometimes I get frustrated that I am not a singer or rapper. I think music can go incredibly far… but words are really effective tools…
d) Life changing.


All my love goes out to meshell and her band. Thank you so much for your artistry.

edited names of band members only per tasha's request.

[This message was edited by matthew on 07-30-03 at 3:05.]

wow, great review Tasha

i was looking forward to an interesting read... and you sure provided it...

thank you

no that my side has stopped hurting, i can respond.
thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed review of your experience. your first experience will be a memorable one.
i can only imagine the look on your face when you walked inside the club...

very happy to hear the band is getting tigher, as we knew they would.

sorry to hear about the car breaking down. what a way to end a great day.


also, catwoman, welcome to the FMH and thanks for your review of the show as well

peace

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Cool review, Tasha. I was at both shows too.

The name of the backup vocalist is Sy Smith. She has an album out called Psykosoul.

lol... someone is selling their copy of her album for $299 on amazon.

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i am so glad someone was amused by my experiences! cuz i sure as hell was!

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thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed review of your experience. your first experience will be a memorable one.

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no problem.. i want people who are on the brink of deciding whether to see to read and it then GO TO HER SHOW!!! it was one of the most memorable experiences of my life.

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i can only imagine the look on your face when you walked inside the club...

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i know, right!? i was like, "damn! this is interesting..." it was actually pretty sweet.

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sorry to hear about the car breaking down. what a way to end a great day.

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luckily her car is now fixed...ended up being $150 + $70 for towing. it's still in milwaukee though!

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The name of the backup vocalist is Sy Smith. She has an album out called Psykosoul.

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ah.. thanks! damnit... i posted the wrong name of the bass player AND backup vocalist on okplayer! argh.

sometime i am going to have to do a better job of meeting all of you at a show.

so, yeah, the bass player was jon jon webb. not john john west.

sorry Tasha, that's my bad. it's not easy getting correct info anymore

thanks again for this GREAT review! I feel ya on many of your observations indeed...especially this one...

"How does she write these melodies that are so natural and beautiful that it seems as though they must exist in the universe somewhere.. and then she just catches them? They don’t leave you ever. They were in me after just hearing them once"

that is magical indeed. i don't know how she does it...it's a gift, a talent...BOTH really. And we're just lucky to be on the recieving end of it

Tasha,

You wrote a splendid review, in my opinion I enjoyed reading it, with all the details and whatnot. And, I see that you had a real adventure, too...LOL!

I probably saw you at the 7:30 show, w/o knowing it. My friend, Gary, & I were in Row 3, next to the catwalk (stage right?). BTW, he was the guy who won the Volvo satchel, with the goodies inside (tall black guy...) . Among other things, he got a copy of "Cookie...". As far as the giveaways, I believe that it was all a part of the "marketing" end of things, at this show. After all, this was, amongst other things, a marketing venture, on the part of the sistas who put on the show. Just my take on it...

WRT your experiences, comin' to the after-party @ Dragon, I was ROTFL!!! Not at you, but simply 'cause, when I read the info on the plugger, it was for the "open-minded"... And, I thought, "Uh-ohhh..." ... I woulda showed up there, myself, outta curiosity & merely to hang out. But, that night, I wasn't up for an after-party.

Anyway, I'm glad that you had a great and, also, very eventful time, at the show & here in Chi. Thanks again for your post.

[This message was edited by Catwoman on 07-29-03 at 19:25.]

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Originally posted by nymakeda:
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also, catwoman, welcome to the FMH and thanks for your review of the show as well
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peace

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Thanks, nymakeda, and you're welcome, too ...

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Originally posted by Catwoman:

I probably saw you at the 7:30 show, w/o knowing it. My friend, Gary, & I were in Row 3, next to the catwalk (stage right?). BTW, he was the guy who won the Volvo satchel, with the goodies inside (tall black guy...) .

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Small world. I was in the row just in front of you. Next time we'll all have to hold up signs that say FREEMYHEART or WACKOJACKO or somethin'.