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IrinaVi: VasquezE (06/04/05 07:10:20) Концерт 1 июня 2005 года. Фото p221.ezboard.com/fthejame...=166.topic И отчет - с BAPs ***************** From: JanKoengeter8@... Date: Fri Jun 3, 2005 8:38am Subject: Con Report - Motor City Buffy jankoengeter8 I'm tired, so this may not be complete, in which case, I may write more later. Also, I'm too lazy (and did I say tired?) to write separate reports, so this is going to a few different Yahoo Lists. Sorry if the cross-posting bothers anyone. First the specifics about James, Concert: He wore just a short-sleeved black tee during his sound check (more about that later), but added a black or maybe dark navy blue button down shirt over it, but unbuttoned during the concert. He had a heavy sivler necklace on, but I didn't notice any rings, and definitely no bracelet. His hair looked a little bit longer, but not much. His jeans were faded, but no holes in the knees -- or elsewhere. He was very chatty and smiling and laughing before he started and also between the songs. His flight had sat on the tarmac in LA for 2 1/2 hours before finally taking off, so he arrived much later than he had expected and didn't get a little nap. So he assured us things would be a bit rough, but added that's one of the fun things about live concerts. He kinda prefers that things not go too smoothly. That what happens unexpectedly can make it more interesting, including mistakes. So he said something like: I'm not going to promise you a perfect show. I'm paraphrasing that and will be for most of this report because other than writing down the playlist, I made only a few other notes. I was too busy watching and enjoying it all from my 2nd row center seat. Anyway, he did make some mistakes. His voice wasn't in top form, so there were some notes that were flat or sharp or that wavered. And there were occasional mistakes in his guitar playing, too. But he has so much passion and enthusiasm when he plays. He performs his songs complete with the specific emotions that suit each one. And the appreciative crowd was very accepting; no one seemed to hold the rough set against him at all. The crowd was very enthusiastic; there was a lot of love in the room; and there were a lot of major James fans wearing the "I Want My Spike Movie" button that was provided by Teep through Support Spike and BAPS donations. I had to make sure and include that note so that Teep knows the package did arrive at the hotel. And although I am one of the Staff Volunteers at this Con, I wasn't directly needed during registration, so I made a point of handing out the buttons to fans as they were standing in line to get their registration packets and explaining in detail about the free postcards and the business-size cards with the mailing addresses on them. Everyonewas very happy to get the free buttons, and a lot of postcards were snapped up. After a while, Julie Caitlin-Brown (who said, "We love Teep!") got the hotel to bring out one more separate table for the buttons and cards, and anything else that may end up being distributed free of charge to the fans. So far, it's just our buttons and postcards. From that point on, I sat behind the table, greeted fans as they arrived and gave the explanation, and then directed them to the correct table to pick up their packets. There were two tables - one for last names beginning with A-L and one for M-Z. Later, the Volunteer Coordinator, Marlaine (who I've seen at other Cons) gathered the volunteers not working the registration tables to do a walk-through with her of the back way to the ballroom (for the concerts and the Q&A's), where the dealer rooms were being set up, where the Cocktail Party & Banquet would be, etc. And she gave us assignments of how to help before the concert. More on that later, but I'll just say that I got to be in the room while James did his Sound Check and managed a brief chat. Also chatted with his manager, Steve Himber. But back to the Concert. He opened with Every Man Is On His Side, explaining that it would be the only song that night that wasn't written by him, but one that he greatly admired. Then he played This Town. Although it is titled Poor Robyn on his new CD, he introduced the next song with its former title of Over Now. (I love that ballad. It's so beautiful.) He explained about writing the next two songs while on tour in the UK. After he played Finer Than Gold (with basically the same intro. about how men sometimes try hard but end up buying a gift for their girl that just isn't right. That doesn't suit her. But the girl puts it on anyway, pretending that it's fine, etc.) and got a huge reception to the song, he asked "Should I record that one?" We yelled out variations on the word, "Yes", and he replied, "Okay, I will." (or something to that effect.) He said he wrote both that one and the next one, London City, because of being in love. He also said that he stole the chord progressions from Gary, the guy who was "opening" for him on much of the London tour. He asked Gary if he minded, and the guy said, not atl all as he was also stealing things from James. They were both in a creative mood and writing stuff sduring that tour. So he called out, "Thanks, Gary" as he began to play it. This song includes lines about being together in London. Most of you probalby know about the girl he's been seeing for over a year, who lives in Germany. But he didn't play Patricia (the song about and named for her); and I'll tell you later what he told me about that song and why he wasn't going to play it tonight when I write about the sound check and brief chat. Anyway, he got another great response to tha song, and I called out, "Record that one, too,". He smiled and looked at me (and the others, of course, but it felt like just to me at the moment. He said, "Really? That one, too?" Or something like that. Remember, he was looking at me. It's hard to concentrate when that's happening. He embarassed and laughed at himself because he once again counted out the beat as if his old band was with him before he started to play Smile. The funniest thing is that he has just explained how the band members had not liked Smile, and that's why it wasn't on Mad Brilliant. The crowd expressed a sentiment of not understanding why they didn't like it. Someone called out, "They're young," as if that might be why they didn't respond to it. And James said "Yes, they are," and smiled. So anyway, it's not as if that's a song that they played together all that often. It was probalby mentioning the band that made his subconscious count out the beat when he started to play Smile. (Another lovely ballad.) He stopped immediately, laughed at himself and pointed out what he'd just done. Then began the song again. He needed help from the sound man to plug himself in for the electrical portion of the concert, joking about how he rehearsed doing this on his own (and I saw him do that), and that he still couldn't get it right. He flung his arms out and said, "I'm just a TV actor," something that he mentioned a few times throughout the concert, including something I know he's said before. That he started playing at 15, then put his music on the back burner for a while before finally starting it up again. "I was once a good amateur, and now I'm a HORRIBLE professional." And laughed at himself. Before beginning to play the electric numbers, he explained something that I hadn't heard: that the song, Civilized Man, was about a guy from Canada who he met and came to know, but who turned out to be a coke addict and not a very nice man. Just a short ways into that song, he broke an A string. He excused himself for a while to go to the green room and put a new string on the guitar. We all happily chatted until he came back and started the song again. No other strings were broken, but I felt a little twinge of guilt because the last thing I called out to him when he left after the sound check was "Or a string!" in response to the following things called out by other volunteers when he said goodbye to us: "Break a leg!", then someone else said, "But not a finger because then you couldn't play", and that's when I called out the karmically wrong thing of "Or a string". Oops! I remembered reading how he broke an E string in London just prior to performing which delayed one of the concert's start times. That's the only reason I said it. Sigh. Oh, when he came back in with the new string and before he started to play again, he said, "I heard that an old friend, Bob Berger, is here tonight. Where are you Bob? Back when I was a starving artist in Chicago, Bob fed me. And then Bob gave him $3,000 to produce/finance a play." He thanked Bob and discussed how that is something that we need more of in the world, and he encouraged us to all support the arts and to go to the theatre. He told Bob he wanted to see him afterwards and said, "I love you, man." Then he played Civilized Man. Before playing Bad, he said, "This ones about you guys," (meaning the women at the Con) and that's an exact quote rather than a paraphrase. Then he blushed a little, but shrugged, as if to say, "Guys will be guys", I suppose. This may also be the point where he said, "My manager is looking at me, like 'Shut the @#%$ up, James'. What can I say?" And then after he finished playing, he said something else about it, and a female fan a ways behind me jokingly called out, "You said you'd never tell anyone!" He laughed and replied, "But I didn't say what we did that night!" I think before playing Dangerous, he said, "This is about someone you know" rather than "This is about someone from Buffy". And then said his usual, "Try to guess who it is." He introduced "Goodbye", but then struggled, trying to remember the opening chords. He said this is what comes from writing too many songs. He finally gave up, saying "I've forgotten how to play it." And laughed at himself again - a very frequent part of his patter and connection with the crowd, saying things like he was lucky to have such fans and being able to sell out his concerts, etc. That he really enjoyed being onstage in front of us, rather than alone on a soundstage acting to cameras. And that he felt very welcomed and at ease with us, acknowledging that there was a lot of love in the room. So he gave up on playing Goodbye and said "Let's not play that game tonight about encores. You know, where I go offstage, and then you clap and I come out to do just one more song. How about if I just play all the set straight through and then end it. Okay? We agreed, and he said, "Okay, then, there will be three more songs." "This one's dirty -- you know, full of double entendres" is all he said before playing What I Need to a very lively, hooting and whistling and laughing crowd. Then he said, "This is a new one, that's probably half-written. It's about Lou, the woman who drove Steve and I throughout the London tour. [paraphrasing now]: And may I say that it was good to see someone from England who thinks the streets there are as @#%$ up as I do. I mean, really. We got robbed at gunpoint! It was wild. And the traffic and streets, themselves! Anyway, this is for Lou - Louise. It was a great song. Very funny, too, with lyrics about driving down a one-way street backwards, etc. I hope it gets recorded, too, or that someone hears him play it enough that they can share the lyrics online. When he finished it, he said, "This is the first time I've played it in public." So yay for us in Michigan -- we saw the debut performance of a new song by James! Then he finished with "The Birth of The Blues", which I really liked a lot. I'm sure he'll record it. He talked a lot about the blues, and that he doesn't like the old story about the blues musician meeting the devil at the crossroads and making a trade to be the forefather of the blues. That the devil doesn't deserve any credit at all for the blues - not one note. That it came out of a terrible situation for the black man's past -- of slavery and pain and all sorts of difficulties. That the devil had nothing to do with the music. And in fact, the last line of the song has Jesus beside the musician. It was very heartfelt, and James really got into the song. He left to a standing ovation and huge applause and hoots and whistles. He said something about this weekend having some terrific people involved [meaning the other actors) and that we'll all have a wonderful time. He grinned and bowed and said, "Thank You." And left the ballroom. (I forgot to say that this was not a huge, cavernous ballroom. I think everyone could see fairly well and definitely could hear well. We were all seated, so there were no people standing in front of you, dancing, so that you couldn't see the stage well. It was run like a concert rather than a club outing.) Then a bit of a snafu. Julie Caitlin-Brown came onstage to explain that everyone should stay in their seats. That James will be coming back onstage to sign a full-sized stand-up of Spike (which all the other Con guests will also sign) and which will be auctioned off during the Con, to raise money for Tony Head's favorite charity, Paws for Cause. Also, that someone was donating an electric guitar which James will sign. So James came back out, jumped onstage and immediately embraced the Spike cardboard stand-up and gave it a big kiss. We all laughed. Then a little girl (maybe 10?), the daughter of the Con Organizer, brought out the guitar. As James was about to sign it, Julie explained that the little girl was the donor. James looked at her and at the guitar a couple of times and said, "Are you sure? That's a nice guitar. Maybe you don't want to give it up?" But the girl insisted. James shook her hand and said "Good for you." Here's where the snafu arises. Julie has looked to Steve at the back of the room, and he apparently gives her the wrong hang signal, and she says, "Now, I think if you all encourage him a little, James will sing one more song." James looks at her and over the crowd to Steve Himber (he's been at the back, selling unautographed CDs and DVDs of the Halloween 2004 in London cocnert and James' Q&A as well some autographed Spike figures and 2005 Spike calendars since 45 minutes before the concert started and will sell more afterwards.) and then back at Julie. He says, "Well, let me go get my guitar, then." After he heads out back, Julie finds out that he wasn't planning to do an encore. She feels bad about the mis-communication and says, "Hold on a minute." She goes out back to talk to James. Good-naturedly, James comes back onstage with his guitar. I know I yelled out "Thank you, James" at some point, and maybe it was here. Others echoed the sentiment. James grinned. He said, "I understand my manager gave Julie the wrong high sign or something. But I really don't know what to sing." I yelled out, "Anything you want!" [Note: I know. I know. I yelled out quite often. I'm cheeky, aren't I? But I only did it at appropriate moments. I swear.] He smiled in response and said, "Yeah, but I've sung everything I know. [note: not quite true] I'd sing goodbye if I could only remember it. Some yell out Katie. Others yell out Runaway. He settles on Runaway, and gives us the unplanned encore. Gotta love that man! James loves his fans, too! Anyway, I know this is long, but he was really very chatty, and I haven't told you everything he said, by any means. Maybe others will post reports that will fill in some of the blanks I've left out. I'm WAY too tired now to tell you the more "intimate" moments I was privy to as one of a few very lucky volunteers in the ballroom during the sound check. And the brief chat. But I promise I'll post the rest of it, when I get some more time. It's not something I'll soon forget. Since James was only here to do the concert, there was no chance for autographs or photos like at other Cons when everyone can meet him individually for a few moments. No handshaking or hugs or any of that stuff. But the fans seemed to really enjoy the concert (musically rough or not), and the patter between the songs, and how much of himself James gave to the maybe 300 people in the room. I'm terrible at estimating. It might have been 250 or even less. I know that a lot of people couldn't make it to the Con till Friday or Saturday, but this was a pretty nice crowd for James. That's it for now. Hope you vicariously enjoyed my post. Jan K. [off]ссылка на соответствующий топик оригинального форума Marstersverse[/off]
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IrinaVi: Uktalynka(06/04/05 13:03:14) Эх, завидую тем, кто побывал на этом концерте. Думаю фанам было абсолютно безразлично ,что Джи ошибался в аккордах, живое общение ничем не заменишь. И..Новая Песня?!
IrinaVi: Uktalynka (06/04/05 13:06:31) Что-то не пойму, "ежики" выдали бооольшое сообшение и скопировали пост.
IrinaVi: Geroneja (06/04/05 15:43:07) Эх, как же хочется на концерт ) Васкес, огромное спасибо за репорт и за фотки )) *хм, народ не лрится вешать фотки на Ежах, рисковые люди!*
IrinaVi: VasquezE (06/09/05 06:51:47) Отчет, часть 2 - спасибо Jan K. и BAPS! (кстати, автор этого отчета - одна из участников проекта виртуального шоу о Спайке, и я только что положила ссылочку на новую серию в раздел "рекомендации фиков") Part 2 will be a little bit more about James and then about the other musical events at the Con. Then later, I'll post a Part 3 about other parts of the Con and the other actors. The latter part of this post will be more interesting to most of you than what I feel that I need to explain in the beginning. This will get a bit long, but it's something that I'd like people to understand, so I hope you don't mind reading it in order to get to "the good stuff". I posted Part I during "the wee hours" after the Thursday night concert because even though I was tired, I knew I could sleep in the next morning. I wasn't scheduled to help in my volunteer capacity until later in the day, and actually, there wasn't anything going on at the Con till late afternoon Friday, when the dealer rooms opened. That's because it was understood that a lot of fans couldn't arrive until they finished working on Friday and then drove or caught flights to Michigan. Anyway, I was very tired when I typed the Concert Report and didn't always phrase things as well as I could have. I also need to explain some things about being a volunteer at a Con. In most cases, as was true for this Con, volunteers pay for their Con admission tickets and also the special event tickets like concerts, Cocktail Parties, Banquets, etc. I believe some Con organizers give the volunteers (who work a LOT of shifts) free general admission tickets to the Con, but if they want a really good seat, the volunteers choose to buy a Gold ticket (or whatever they want) instead of sitting in a general admission seat. Although volunteers may "block out" times they do not want to work shifts (because they bought a Cocktail Party ticket, for example), the rest of the time at the Con, they are kept pretty busy, trying to help things run smoothly. I volunteered because I really wanted the fans to enjoy this first Con held not only in Michigan, but actually in my local area. I've lived all my life either in or near Ann Arbor. I wanted the buzz on the boards and lists after this Con to be filled with reports from fans who had a great time and felt that they were dealt with in a friendly manner, rather than treated "like cattle" as we sometimes feel at some Cons. I figured I could be helpful and pleasant and keep a smile on my face, which would help the other fans enjoy themselves even more. And I hope I (and my fellow volunteers) managed to do just that. I'm saying this because these are the kind of fans who we need to volunteer at Cons. Ones who will show up on time and in the right place for their shift assignments and not disappear if they get bored or want to go do something more fun. We also don't need fans volunteering if all they're really hoping for is some private, up-close time with the actors. That VERY RARELY happens, so don't volunteer if that's all you want. Even the few volunteers who are assigned as PA's (personal assistants) to each actor, don't have personal time with the actors. They remind the actors of their schedules and lead them to the designated area for their Q&A sessions, etc., but are not supposed to engage the actors in conversation or ask for any specially personalized autographs or anything. That is the actor's "free time". If they choose to chat with "their" volunteer as they're walking to their next appearance at the Con, then volunteers can certainly reply. But they shouldn't ask questions and try to get the inside scoop on anything. And the actor may need those few minutes to get themselves truly awake and ready to "perform", so again, that time is the actor's time to use as they wish. Not the volunteer's chance for some one-on-one chatting. That said, you're probably wondering how did I end up in the ballroom during James' sound check, as I mentioned in Part 1. Well, the answer is it was a total fluke, and in truth, I should have left the room after I finished doing what I was doing. Many musicians are adamant that no one be in the room during their sound checks. If he had wanted to do so, James could rightly have asked that the few of us in there get the heck out. But he didn't and I stayed. I doubt that many other volunteers at other Cons have ever had that unusually lucky chance that I took advantage of. Since I already alluded to it in Part 1, I'll finish describing it, so that you don't think it was some very magical moment that you need to remain forever envious of. As I explained in Part 1, some of the volunteers were working the registration tables, and the rest of us had been taken on a quick tour of the various rooms we'd be using during the Con. We ended up in the ballroom. The other volunteers were given assignments guarding doors or monitoring the lines of fans, lining up outside the ballroom in hopes of getting the best possible seat. Because I have back problems and a bum left kee, I had been promised assignments that would not involve a lot of standing or walking around or carrying things. Thus, I was not asked to monitor the lines. Since I have experience in running a series of outdoor summer concerts in Ann Arbor (for several years, a few years ago), I offered to be a 2nd pair of ears at a different part of the room if the sound man wanted help. He said "no" and that he just wanders the room during the sound check to get a feel for the whole room. But if I had strong enough fingernails, he coud use some help getting some small, old and fading batteries out of a couple of small pieces of equipment so that he could replace them. After I did that, Steve Himber (James manager) and James showed up. James immediately began working with the sound man, and I went to see if I could help Steve get his merchandise table set up. One volunteer, who knows Steve because she went to all of the recent concerts in James' UK tour), had volunteered to help Steve, but they needed to remove the cellophane from all of the CDs that James needed to sign for the 40-something people who had paid extra bucks in advance to get an autographed CD. (They would be selling un-autogrpahed CDs to the rest of the fans.) We all know how hard it is to get the cellophane off CDs, right? So I pulled a chair over to their table and helped them remove the cellophane as James started playing. Again, I should have left the room after we got them all opened, but when I moved the chair back to its place in the back row, I sat down. I knew I couldn't go stand in the long line outside without experiencing pain. So I sat and listened as James played parts of several songs to warm up his voice and fingers and conferred with the sound man. So when I referred in Part 1 to the "intimate" chance to see James and very briefly chat, this is how it came about. And to dispel any illusions that the chat was some very private, one-on-one conversation just for me, I'll explain further. It was "intimate", not because of any "confidential" exhange of words or insider information, but only because there were just a few people in the room. In addition to Steve & his volunteer assistant, the only people other than the sound man were: the hotel manager (a youngish man who seemed genuinely interested in James and his music), the security guard assigned to James, the daughter (10 years old?) of the fan who organized the Con and a adult relative (or friend?) who was supervising the child. The little girl and her companion were sitting in the center of the front row, and the girl was obviously very excited. As James continued to play, I moved to a center aisle seat on the other side of the room and up closer to see what the sound was like from that position. Then I decided to try my assigned seat for the Con -- I had purchased a Gold ticket and my seat was B25, which was the 2nd row right behind the little girl. I figured I'd just stay there in my seat until the concert started. Just before James stopped singing, one of the other volunteers came in and sat on the girl's left side. The sound check ended, and James sat down on the stage right (but still near the center) side of the stage to chat more with the sound man. But it was just about "stuff" not the sound system. And the little girl was torn between wanting to talk with James and being too nervous. Knowing from other Cons, how very kind and gracious James is with kids, I called out to James during a break in his chat with the sound man, "Excuse me, James." When he looked over, I indicated the child in front of me and said, "She'd like to say hello to you, but is feeling too shy." I figured James would come over and shake her hand and say 'hello' and maybe a few words and leave. But he was in a chatty mood. He plopped down on the stage (due to its T-shape it is was immediately in front of the girl, just a few inches away) and started talking to her and the other 3 of us sitting there. Any of you who have seen James at a Q&A or in any other setting will know how enthusiastically he talks -- rather quickly and with little chance for anyone else to insert even a few words unless he takes a pause lengthier than his usual brief pauses. Some people may call it long-winded; I prefer the term "chatty". He bubbled over friendliness, but didn't really say anything that he hasn't said at other Cons or in interviews. It's a bit more fun, of course, to see and hear him talk to you just inches away rather than on a stage. The child was very happy, and so were we. But it was very, very brief. Steve called him to come to the back table to sign the CDs. Oh, when he first stopped playing, James had asked Steve if he had any music to play as pre-concert music. Steve said, "Only your CD, James, and we don't really want to play that." So the hotel manager volunteered to go out to his car and bring in some CDs he had. He and James chatted excitedly about some favorite musicians they both liked, and the manager stepped out to get the CDs. Now we're back to James signing *his* CDs. The hotel manager and security guard were again excitedly talking "music" and about various bands with James. So the rest of us just hung around, listening. At a lull in the conversation, I told James that I had heard great things about his UK tour and asked if he'd be singing not only songs from the CD, but also any of the new songs he wrote since then and while he was in England. James said something very close to, "Yes, the new songs plus most of the songs on the CD. But not Patricia. We got some feedback that the fans don't enjoy that one so much." I was about to say that I enjoyed it, but someone else said, "Some fans prefer the fantasy that you're still available. They don't want to hear you sing about a current girlfriend." Before I could comment that I thought that a bit silly and that the music, itself, is what matters, James continued, "And I'm not completely satisfied with the last verse of it. Should re-work it." I figured I should tell you what he said about that song because I alluded to it in Part 1 and didn't want anyone imagining that maybe there was a problem with the relationship. Okay, that's it about James in the pre-concert setting. Anything else he said are things he has said in various words at many Cons and in interviews. No big revealing information. I didn't even get a chance to squeeze in a question as to whether or not he has heard anything further about a Spike movie. So those of you going to the upcoming Cons where James will be doing actual Q&A's will have to be the ones to ask that question. Okay? Just a couple of things to add about James' concert: When he returned to sing the unplanned encore and was racking his brains to determine what to sing, at one point he just turned around and "shook his booty" at us very briefly and got another laugh as well as some apreciative applause and hoots. and an itneresting thing he said between songs at one point: He got the chance to jam once with Tom Petty, who told him, "You have some nice melodies," then hedged it a bit with, "your chord progressions are a bit...traditional". Hearing James' delivery of this is what makes it funny and charming, as it's fairly clear that Tom was trying to think of a kind way to say "simplistic". Now for the other music events at the Con. The first was the Friday night Karaoke event. Andy Hallet was scheduled to host it and perform a few songs, but due to flight problems, he was delayed and didn't arrive until Saturday morning. Luckily for us, we still had a bit of entertainment other than fans singing for fans. Julie Caitlin-Brown opened the event with an accapella version of Summertime (from Porgy and Bess) and then Corner of the Sky (from the musical Pippin). Fun Fact: Actor John Rubenstein, who played W&H head laywer Linwood (the replacement Head after Darla & Dru drank all the lawyers in the Wine Room at the former Head's party) originated the role of Pippin on Broadway. In the Angel episode where he loses his actual head onto the boardroom table, falling victim to Lilah's coup (that was sanctioned by the Senior Partners) one of the last lines said to his character by Lilah is (paraphrasing a bit): "This is no longer your 'Corner of the Sky'." Being a musical theatre buff, that line really cracked me up. I know that Joss is really into musicals, too, but I have no idea if that little inside joke for Rubenstein's last work on the series was written by Joss or one of the other writers. Then to make us feel better about the lack of Andy, Tony Head wowed us with one number. He said he had a hard time finding a song on the Karaoke list, but he settled on the Ray Charles song, Georgia (on my Mind). He sang it beautifully. It really suited Tony's voice; I think he should add it to his repertoire. Eric Kuffs, from Common Rotation, sang Allison for us. If any of you have ever heard Eric sing, you'll not be surprised to hear that this was also very well done. The rest of the night involved fans signing, and everyone seemed to have a great time. Tony Head was scheduled to sing at the end of the banquet. The fans who either couldn't afford or didn;t want to attend the banquet were allowed to buy standing room tickets for $10 to hear Tony's concert. As always, Tony was very entertaining. Here's his set list (although I didn't always hear the title and may be making up my own titles here): Can't Stand the Rain; Love Song (you know, the one with the lyrics: Love is the opening door; Love is what we came here for, Do you know what I mean?; Have your eyes really seen?); Have a Little Faith in Me; Highway or Living Separate Lives by Stephen (Steven?) Alan (Alllen?) Davies, who Tony insists should not be so unknown, and Tony says this song meant a lot to him during the time he was shooting BtVS & away from his family for so long; Joe Cocker's song What Would I Be Without You in My Life?; the Beatles' We Can Work It Out; Seeing White - a French song that he sang in English; a song written by Joss Whedon which is maybe titled Give It One More Time or maybe It's The Last Time???; and a song called Babies, which I believe Tony said he wrote himself after seeing a baby in a restaurant being comforted in its father's arms. He then closed with his ever popular rendition of Sweet Transvestite from Rocky Horror, with assistance froim a female fan reading in the lines of "Brad" that come within the song. If you've never seen Common Rotation perform, I sure hope you get the chance someday. I love the harmonies of Adam Busch and Eric Kuffs and they perform a lot of great songs, along with bandmate Jordan Katz who plays both guitar and a mean trumpet. Again, I'll be guessing at some of the song titles. Here's their set list: Satan is Real; The Party's Still On; Favorite songs of Texas; Sit Down (Before You Fall Down); Gone Dyin' (I'm Going to Die Someday); Walk in the Park or Good Morning or Here's to Your Heart???; Pour Some sugar On Me; So Bothered by the USA (showing their politics in an anti-war song); I Don't Do That (Kind of Thing); Everything Under the Sun; Plan Ahead; Settle Me Down or Sell Them Down??; Phone Line; Indie Rockin'; Chilling Eyes of Darkness?; Dancer; Eric's solo song - sorry can't think of the title; the accapella song that ends with a yodel - Don't Leave Her Alone With Me??; and ending with Oklahoma. Then they walked down into the audience and sang the Beatles' song "Get By With a Little Help From My Friends. They were fabulous!!! Again, sorry for the long explanation at the beginning of this report, but I really hope that some of you consider helping out someday as a volunteer, without thinking you're going to get a chance for some fantastic one-on-one time with the actors. You won't get any more time than a lot of the other fnas who attend the Cocktail Party or Banquet or share a few moments with an actor in the hotel bar or restaurant or a room party -- which some of the acotrs have been known to attned. They're a very friendly bunch of actors - those who appeared on BtVS & AtS. They're very pleasant and share as much time as they feel comfortable sharing with any fans at a Con -- not exclusively the volunteers. Hope there weren't too many typos. I'll post Part 3 about the Q&A's etc. tomorrow or the next day. Jan K.
IrinaVi: novichok74 (06/10/05 09:42:43) На Marsters_daily девушка под ником annabelle528 вывесила фотки с этого концерта. Я особо похихикала над последней - с язычком Правда фотки не самого лучшего качества, но какие есть www.livejournal.com/community/marsters_daily/385531.html?style=mine#cutid1
IrinaVi: Geroneja (06/10/05 14:55:14) Главное, что фотки вообще есть, спасибо за ссылки и отчет ))
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