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Lucy In Concert
Roxy Theater
25 & 26 January 2008
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FLAWLESS DIVA - LUCY IN CONCERT
Lucy At The Roxy
25 & 26 January 2008
This site is dedicated to Lucy's second Roxy Concert.
January 2007 she had her solo debut at this venue - this year she's
back
to rock Hollywood with her fantastic show!
Concert Report by KT
Second Concert
fsktl@uaf.edu
So, second night concert. (Let us pray this report goes a
little better
than my first exploding, imploding, sending bits of
unidentifiable
wreckage flying through the air, taking down two or three
innocent
bystanders of uncertain names, laden with tank-like-typos
breaking holes
in syntax, structure, grammar and spelling while crushing
sentences
beneath their treads, nuclear meltdown level crash and burn-
brighter-than-the-Northern Lights, effort.)
Last night I drove back and forth with some buddies. But I
opt to take the
bus tonight, to visit with other friends during the rides.
The weather in L.A. has been wildly wet. One major storm
after another has
been rolling through town. We all talk about how last year
it was dry but
SOOOOOOOO cold and how standing on the line waiting to get
in was just
brutal. The night before, the first night of the concert,
was actually
pleasant, dry and warmish. There are rain clouds in the
weather report for
tonight. The rain starts the minute we get to the club. But
the timing is
good-we get right in. In the hall everyone heads for their
various
favorite spots-totally smooshed up against the stage; behind
the smooshies
on the dance floor as close as they can be to being smooshed
up against
the stage; on the steps from the bar level down to the dance
floor; at the
edge of the platform of the bar level; and way back lounging
on the bar
itself. (Well, not on top of the bar but leaning against it
with some
portion of the body. On top of the bar doesn't usually come
into play
until much later in the night.)
We're all happy to be back and there's even a number of new
kids to play
with tonight. (Some people can't get to the con before
Saturday and so
miss Lucy's first night.)
Once again Kat and Tig are the lead-ins. Once again I decide
to visit with
buds sitting in the entrance area and so miss their bits
again. Though I
do hear Tig repeating some stuff she did last year-"No
moleste", "Itty
Bitty Titty" and something else that is eluding my grasp at
the moment,
escaping from the interior of my mind and now probably
roaming down the
mean streets of L.A., scaring little children and big men.
First thing I gotta say-I hate it that they added seats on
the floor. It
really tightly corrals the standing folks. This was the
first Lucy concert
I've ever been at where I was aware of being very
uncomfortable by the end
of the nights from standing in one place so long. So
uncomfortable, that
for the last three songs Lucy sang the first night, I was
even kind of
hoping that "this is the last song". Every other time, when
she said it
was the last song, I was practically broken-hearted, cause I
still had
happy feet and was hoping for the show to continue.
The discomfort was because even way at the back, there
wasn't really room
to move around. The standing folks had lost so much floor
space that we
were just about backed right up to the bar. Therefore
leaving no free
space anywhere, as we've had here in the past and in both
New York and
Chicago, for anyone to walk around a bit between songs and
so get the
blood in their feet and legs moving around.
Thank the gods I had sat in the hallway visiting with
friends when Kat and
Tig were on-my little leggies and feet would have been
REALLY past it if I
had stood during their bits also.
And, because people were so jammed together both front and
back and
sideways, there was a real problem with even finding a good
clear space to
see the stage from. Even though the Roxy is a very small
venue, I could
still only see Lucy from like the top of her thighs
up-(thank the gods for
her cascading, endlessly long thighs). I never saw much of
her pants nor
anywhere near her feet. As for Renee, I never even saw her
clothes-mainly
just her upper chest, head and her arms when she raised them
to bump and
grind.
Even when a couple of friends and I stood on the space by
the turned side
part of the bar, right against the rear wall of the hall,
even from way
back there, there just wasn't enough space between people on
the floor in
front of you to see the whole stage the way we had last
year. And you
couldn't even get a clear shot by rocking or adjusting just
a little to
the side-there was literally no space between bodies-just a
little slice
between heads. I HATE being that crowded in.
Next year I hope they either take away the floor chairs or
put down
nothing but chairs with enough space between them for
everyone to see from
down there (and charge somewhere between what those in the
currently
limited number of chairs and the standing folks paid) or get
a somewhat
bigger venue.
Happily, (most) Xena fans on the whole are very gracious and
generous
souls. They're always asking each other, "Can you see?" and
doing their
best to try to keep the areas between heads and bodies clear
for the
shorter members or our society. (Increasingly as I age, that
would be me.)
Good back-up chicks. Lucy always gets good back-up chicks,
even on one
occasion a good dude back up chick. One looked like Tina
Turner. One
looked like Sally Jesse Raphael. She would put on these HUGE
thick-rimmed
black glasses at times and look down at the music, but she
sang mostly
without them on. And her voice was as huge as her glasses!
And the fiddle
player looked like Chelsea Clinton, when she had that very
long, very
curly hair. I tell ya, the stage was just THICK with
celebrities.
I really don't want to keep ragging, but the sound way in
the back where
we were was not very good either. It's possible that the
lack of open
space had something to do with this also-when they did the
sound check,
the hall would be much more lively without all the wall to
wall Lucy fan
bodies absorbing the sound waves instead of reflecting them
back. Lots of
times I saw and heard people asking each other "What'd she
say?" and
getting a shrug back-with both of them staring at Lucy and
never taking
their eyes off of her even when talking to each other.
Now having finished my ragging, let me ask myself this
question. KT-were
you glad you went. Why yes KT I am. I'm happier I went even
with these
problems. I'd rather have been there than not been there.
Thanks for
asking.
But I do hope for some changes next year. If not, I'm
bringing stilts--for
both the view and for a shot at free-flowing air. Also, I
bet I could walk
around with stilts on-they only need a little standing
space. I'd just
have to be REAL careful with where I step. AND hey-I'd get
to see all of
Luce! Yay! (Hmmm. I might bring stilts even if they DO
change the layout
or the club. . .)
Now since I couldn't see real well nor hear so well, in
compiling this
report, I have had to rely well, not exactly on the kindness
of strangers,
but on the kindness of strange Xena fans. Closer than
strangers but still
strange. During the third day at the convention, I asked
numerous people
about what they had seen and heard at the concert, to help
me fill in this
report. (Oddly enough, I also had a number of people come up
and volunteer
to help me with the report for the second night. Go figure.)
Some things I
had just forgotten about, some things I found out the
details on for the
very first time. So, with thanks to everyone for their input
either with
or without accompanying insults regarding my first night
ugly melange-here
is our group report.
End of Part One
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