Indigo Girls
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requialexaLive in Concert.
Would've been more fun with a group of women or people who loved the band as much as I do, but my husband was kind enough to come with me to keep me company. After I chastised him for his umpteenth lesbian crack, and we sulked at each other for a while, we settled into a companionable....something.
It was sorta sad for me cause the last time I'd seen them at Chastain I was with a group of friends who've gone their separate ways in big dramatic life events and so it was a touch sad. I still miss having that core group of ppl even though taken separately there's only one I can really stand. But that's some melancholy for another time.
It was just the two of them and a keyboard/accordion player who helped out on vocals. She was awesome--no chick's ever rocked an accordion like that! (There're several words I never thought I'd type)
Missy Higgins opened and had she not been preceded last year by Brandi Carlile (Best opener ever, cept maybe for Michele Malone....but that's another story altogether) I might have been more impressed. As it stands, I'm not much for the whole piano thing anyway, and while her hit, "Where I Stood" is practically dripping with post-Journey's End angst for me, the rest of her songs were kind of meh. And she's Australian and for some reason, that sort of irks me--who ever heard of an Australian touring with the Indigo Girls? I'm so weird. She was cute and I think she might grow on me, but she's no Brandi Carlile.
I was proud that since the last concert I'd dug up some of the albums I'd missed in my having babies years and so I was not as lost as I was at times when they played the Botanical Gardens.
They played 2 or 3 songs for their next album that releases in February. "Fleet of Hope" and "Sugar Tongue" were the ones they named but I think they played one other. Those were both awesome. "The fleet of hope looks so pretty when it's sitting in the port..." is about as much as I remember, but that's something. It was about finding yourself, essentially.
They did some songs from the last album, "Pendulum Swingers," "Money Made you Mean," "Run," and "Three County Highway."
They did some older stuff, too. I was quite pleasantly surprised to get to hear "Prince of Darkness" live...I can't remember hearing that live before, but then again...I've forgotten more IG concerts than I can remember and that bothers me (especially since I've been to all of them clean and sober).
When they did "The Wood Song" I teared up thinking of my friend I met last year who was almost as much of an IG fan as I was--it was her favorite song. But she got shot in the head when her neighbor went postal last summer (post-Gulf war shit, latent Schizophrenia) and shot up the neighborhood. She lived, while her affianced did not, but she'll never be the same person. She's maybe much freer now, but her son kinda needed her to her. The mind boggles. I'm just glad that crazy guy's right to bear automatic weapons was preserved. /sarcasm
"The Wood Song" is also a favorite of mine because it always conjures imagery of Noah's ark for me and that reminds me of a certain little human in my house.
I worried about the yuppie crowd--it's an amphitheater in the middle of a huge and very wealthy neighborhood, and about half the tickets were corporate seats--but they seemed to get into good hands. I keep forgetting nearly all the ppl my age pass as yuppies now anyway. *sigh* The crowd was laid back...you can bring in tables and candles and wine and food, so it's just not a rockin' out kind of venue. But once they did "Get out the Map" the crowd livened up a lot!
Oh well, enough with the play by play. They finished with "Closer to Fine" and then did a small encore of solo songs. One was an Amy Ray song I'd never heard, from a solo album; it was "Let it Ring" and it was OMFG awesome. Holy song I adore that encourages people to "Let it Ring to Jesus"! Who'd have seen that coming. It's basically an anthem about don't let the religious right hijack your religion and steal your human rights. And then three little kids (family members of the IG) came out on stage with her to sing along and they sang, in harmony/counterpoint to Amy, "This little Light of Mine." I teared up again.
They closed with "Galileo" and that always baffles me--that it's so wildly popular. Always makes me feel delightfully Old School since I still sorta think of that as a new song. Heh. But it's just not like, as awesome as so many others. Oh! Like "Watershed" which, I think the last time I heard it live, was so new, I didn't appreciate it! That was back long before digital music so it took a long time to get used to a new album :D "Watershed" has some of my favorite lyrics ever. Oh how I adore the Indigo Girls.
They did, once again, make me feel like a lazy middle glass consumer and that's a good thing. I mean, at least I vote, but still. I used to be about to Do Something. :P
I have loved this music consistently for almost 20 years of my life. And I found them on my own. And that means a lot to me. They're mine.
Okay, done with the fangirling of the IG.
Would've been more fun with a group of women or people who loved the band as much as I do, but my husband was kind enough to come with me to keep me company. After I chastised him for his umpteenth lesbian crack, and we sulked at each other for a while, we settled into a companionable....something.
It was sorta sad for me cause the last time I'd seen them at Chastain I was with a group of friends who've gone their separate ways in big dramatic life events and so it was a touch sad. I still miss having that core group of ppl even though taken separately there's only one I can really stand. But that's some melancholy for another time.
It was just the two of them and a keyboard/accordion player who helped out on vocals. She was awesome--no chick's ever rocked an accordion like that! (There're several words I never thought I'd type)
Missy Higgins opened and had she not been preceded last year by Brandi Carlile (Best opener ever, cept maybe for Michele Malone....but that's another story altogether) I might have been more impressed. As it stands, I'm not much for the whole piano thing anyway, and while her hit, "Where I Stood" is practically dripping with post-Journey's End angst for me, the rest of her songs were kind of meh. And she's Australian and for some reason, that sort of irks me--who ever heard of an Australian touring with the Indigo Girls? I'm so weird. She was cute and I think she might grow on me, but she's no Brandi Carlile.
I was proud that since the last concert I'd dug up some of the albums I'd missed in my having babies years and so I was not as lost as I was at times when they played the Botanical Gardens.
They played 2 or 3 songs for their next album that releases in February. "Fleet of Hope" and "Sugar Tongue" were the ones they named but I think they played one other. Those were both awesome. "The fleet of hope looks so pretty when it's sitting in the port..." is about as much as I remember, but that's something. It was about finding yourself, essentially.
They did some songs from the last album, "Pendulum Swingers," "Money Made you Mean," "Run," and "Three County Highway."
They did some older stuff, too. I was quite pleasantly surprised to get to hear "Prince of Darkness" live...I can't remember hearing that live before, but then again...I've forgotten more IG concerts than I can remember and that bothers me (especially since I've been to all of them clean and sober).
When they did "The Wood Song" I teared up thinking of my friend I met last year who was almost as much of an IG fan as I was--it was her favorite song. But she got shot in the head when her neighbor went postal last summer (post-Gulf war shit, latent Schizophrenia) and shot up the neighborhood. She lived, while her affianced did not, but she'll never be the same person. She's maybe much freer now, but her son kinda needed her to her. The mind boggles. I'm just glad that crazy guy's right to bear automatic weapons was preserved. /sarcasm
"The Wood Song" is also a favorite of mine because it always conjures imagery of Noah's ark for me and that reminds me of a certain little human in my house.
I worried about the yuppie crowd--it's an amphitheater in the middle of a huge and very wealthy neighborhood, and about half the tickets were corporate seats--but they seemed to get into good hands. I keep forgetting nearly all the ppl my age pass as yuppies now anyway. *sigh* The crowd was laid back...you can bring in tables and candles and wine and food, so it's just not a rockin' out kind of venue. But once they did "Get out the Map" the crowd livened up a lot!
Oh well, enough with the play by play. They finished with "Closer to Fine" and then did a small encore of solo songs. One was an Amy Ray song I'd never heard, from a solo album; it was "Let it Ring" and it was OMFG awesome. Holy song I adore that encourages people to "Let it Ring to Jesus"! Who'd have seen that coming. It's basically an anthem about don't let the religious right hijack your religion and steal your human rights. And then three little kids (family members of the IG) came out on stage with her to sing along and they sang, in harmony/counterpoint to Amy, "This little Light of Mine." I teared up again.
They closed with "Galileo" and that always baffles me--that it's so wildly popular. Always makes me feel delightfully Old School since I still sorta think of that as a new song. Heh. But it's just not like, as awesome as so many others. Oh! Like "Watershed" which, I think the last time I heard it live, was so new, I didn't appreciate it! That was back long before digital music so it took a long time to get used to a new album :D "Watershed" has some of my favorite lyrics ever. Oh how I adore the Indigo Girls.
They did, once again, make me feel like a lazy middle glass consumer and that's a good thing. I mean, at least I vote, but still. I used to be about to Do Something. :P
I have loved this music consistently for almost 20 years of my life. And I found them on my own. And that means a lot to me. They're mine.
Okay, done with the fangirling of the IG.
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Date: 2008-09-14 05:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-14 05:22 am (UTC)I kid. Glad you had a nice time. *hugs*
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Date: 2008-09-15 03:17 am (UTC)