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Angela Just got back from the club. What can I say? It was freakin awesome. Automatic Hotel rocked as always. Powder was wow. A great band, but the performance they put on with costumes and props is extremely entertaining. And GOTR rocked. Their new drummer sounds great. I think his name is Sean, but my hearing was going at that point. I got the new single and listened to it on the drive home. I highly recommend it. Thanks to Yani (Ghostgirl). I had fun hanging out with you and your sister. Hope you got some good pics. On a side note. On the other side of the stage, James sat down on the stage and was in the audience. I missed what happened. If anyone was on that side of the stage please share the story. Thanks.
MadeToLove The new drummer's name was Sean Hutchinson (not sure if that's the correct spelling), and he rocked. His style is very different than Aaron's but his talent is evident.
Here's the set list: Liar Dangerous This Time (I think that's right, it's a new ballad that will be on their album, it was gorgeous, don't know who wrote it, but it was in James's key, so I suspect it might have been him) David Letterman 911 German/Jew Mad Brilliant Good Night Sweet Girl A New Man (on the new single - was New Man 2000) Vehicles Shock Me
James said this was the first time the five of them had played together...ever. Not sure exactly what was said, but it sounded like someone (James?) maybe missed the rehearsal, but Sean didn't miss a beat. James seemed to think that "A New Man" was the "encore" but then he found out they were going to end with "Vehicles..." He came back "pouting" that he wanted to go back to his trailer and threw his jacket on the ground, then Charlie gave him a hug. g:
The Key Club lies...they didn't open the box office until pretty late, forcing us to stand outside in the freezing cold for several hours (it was really windy...if it hadn't been for the wind, we'd have been alright). Gray Sunrise, Bookworm, Winter Maiden and I spent those hours trying to recruit new members while we danced around trying to stay warm. (Hi Shay and Lea, hope you're lurking, and that I didn't get your names wrong g: ). The Key Club is nice, but very small and crowded.
Automatic Hotel was great, and the crowd loved hearing "Sunnydale" and "Firefly". Powder kicked major a**! They were so cool. They were more of a production than just a band with costumes and dancers, and the band was awesome. The lead singer was a gorgeous woman (very much Spike's type :wink: ). They showed a lot of skin and even did this great pole dance, but don't think the music wasn't good. A few of us have decided that should GotR ever perform at the same venue as Powder, they will need to spruce things up to keep up. So boys, go get some thongs and learn to pole dance, because we will accept no less. :LOL:
Overall GotR was good. James was a tad bit off key in a few things, but not too bad, and at one point the band wasn't on the same page, but the new stuff sounded great.
kimrae1977 Yeah, it did show that they hadn't had much time together lately, but still very entertaining. I was close to the stage and there were some times that James was flat, but I think it definitely had to do with the volume of the music. A lot of the time I couldn't make out what James was singing cause he was drowned out. He came up through the left side of the audience, facing the stage, when the guys were setting up for GOTR to play. He was 3 feet from me, and wow, gorgeous in person. I would have gotten to touch him, but there were tall people in the way.
Powder was.....unique. Not my typical band. When the drummer threw his drumstick in to the audience at the end of their set, it hit me in the head. Some girl behind me caught it and kept it.
Volume seems to be a problem at a lot of club shows I've been to. I saw a guy there with earplugs and wished I had them. Still kinda deaf. :smile:
About 6:30, when I was standing in line, I saw James drive off from the Key Club. No one else noticed since they were all talking with their groups. I'm glad I car watch! I also saw him leave the club. Chauffered in a black Lincoln Towncar and heading to a friend's club.
James wore the distressed brown leather jacket he's commonly seen in, a black tee, and blue jeans.
He was really funny---such a flirt! Seems still in awe over the fuss we make about him. One girl got a great encounter. It was her birthday and her friend went backstage after the show and asked James to come out and wish her a Happy Birthday. He did, giving her a hug and a kiss on the cheek. She was ecstatic. Oh, and he wiggled his butt a couple times for the audience. :wink:
The tooth wasn't missing anymore, so he must have had the work done.
In all, I had a lot of fun, especially when GOTR came up. My feet were pretty much numb then and didn't hurt so much anymore. I had been standing for 3 hours when Automatic Hotel finally started.
Pretty sure I saw GreySunrise there. I wasn't sure, so I didn't introduce myself. Hi to all MTSers there tonight!
HappyMeal QUOTE This Time (I think that's right, it's a new ballad that will be on their album, it was gorgeous, don't know who wrote it, but it was in James's key, so I suspect it might have been him)
That's This Town and I was surprised when James said that they'd never played it in public before. Don't people in Sacramento count as part of the public? g: They sang it there, with Fabrice on the violin. No Fabrice at The Key Club though. I didn't catch all the lyrics, but it seems to be a hopeful song for the future. "This town baby, is going to be ours."
QUOTE James said this was the first time the five of them had played together...ever.
James has such interesting ways of saying things. g: He said, "You have all popped our cherries big time."
QUOTE Not sure exactly what was said, but it sounded like someone (James?) maybe missed the rehearsal, but Sean didn't miss a beat.
Well, James didn't miss the sound check, if that's what you mean. I caught him doing that, and the poor guy was so cold *inside* the club he had to put his leather jacket on. Geez, they had that place way too cold. We froze outside, and then froze some more inside.
After they did David Letterman, James said that they could congratulate themselves on "not f*cking that up." Steve said that this show was a rehearsal, and James told him that he wasn't supposed to admit that. :LOL: That's the impression that I got though. They're still getting a feel for each other, since they lost Aaron.
QUOTE He came back "pouting" that he wanted to go back to his trailer and threw his jacket on the ground, then Charlie gave him a hug.
Oh my gosh, that was so funny. It was like he was mocking himself, saying that he wanted to go back to his trailer and do an interview. He said, "Don't you know who I am?" LOL Doofus. :love:
Interestingly, their New Man singles have "Limited Edition" printed on them. Snatch them up while you can. I don't remember if this has been posted, but the other two songs on this single are Country Live-in (no vocals) and The End (Charlie solo).
Hi, girls! Finally checking in after a long day at Disneyland yesterday.
I met up with MTL, GraySunrise, and Bookie at Barney's Beanery before the gig. No one approached us and we didn't see anyone else there who had that pent-up oh-my-god-tonight's-the-night look, so I hope we didn't miss anyone.
We did spend a lot of time in line, and the wind was howling down the street, so we were really cold. (Especially those of us who hadn't brought jackets!) Bookie had a leather jacket on (not unlike JM's :smile: ), and she passed it around so that the four of us could take turns wearing it and warm up our hands a bit. Greater love hath no woman.
I finally had the chance to meet rockgoddes. When she was introduced to me she said, "Hey! You're real!" LOL Glad to finally meet you too, Rocky! Enjoyed meeting the new ladies, also. Was it Shay and Lea? Hope you stop by the board and say hey.
There were some problems with MTL and me getting admitted to the club (our own fault for making last-minute arrangements), but it all worked out, so we got ourselves in out of the cold and into the crush and noise. (If the club was colder than it should have been, it didn't bother us after having been outside!) The club was small, the smallest I think I've seen GOTR in, with a tiny dance floor, then double stairs going down to the restrooms and the area where the bands were selling stuff, and then a higher raised area behind the stairwell. I got a perfect spot (I felt the best spot in the house, frankly), right in back of the stairs, almost stage center. I could see clearly over the people on the dance floor, had a good view of the crowd, and a great view of the bands. (Lucky told me later that I was in a spotlight. lush: If so, you might have noticed a round little woman in a long-sleeved dark shirt and hair that in that light must have looked burgundy or pink.) GraySunrise was next to me, Bookie next to her, and then MadeToLove and our new friends. So we made quite a little row of MSTers.
After waiting outside a lot longer than we expected (but when does anything at a club ever happen when they say it will?), we then waited a long time for the show to start. I was quite happy as always with Automatic Hotel. I know their music is much of a muchness, and I suspect the GOTR boys aren't thrilled and pleased that AH perform a Buffy tribute song ("Firefly", though, is unrelated to the Jossverse), but I like their sound, and they play tight and have a good energy. And I enjoy watching them.
Speaking of which, then came Powder. Wow. Okay, they were gimmicky beyond belief, but it was a nice old-fashioned smutty glam-punk show. Ninette, the singer, came on looking like Sandra Dee dressed in fetish wear: a blond bouffant wig, a garish floral one-piece swimsuit, and shiny black rubbery crotch-high boots attached to a matching garter. She was also wearing what looked like a little circus hoop suspended from her waist by yellow rubber panels, and a cage made out of those little balloons you tie into shapes. (She looked a bit as if she was dressed up like a shiny condom--you know, the nice nubbly kind.) Little by little she shed everything but swimsuit and gartered boots, and then she looked more like an inflatable sex-doll. She also had the most amazingly perfect body I've ever seen--smooth and softly curved, but clearly more in shape than you or I will ever be. She pranced like a go-go pony, she staggered around like a robot who'd been doing speedballs, she pole-danced, she multiplied into a half-dozen matching sex dolls gyrating about the stage, and she even jump-roped and did rope tricks like Will Rogers. (She did rope tricks like Will Rogers--but, honey, she wasn't Will Rogers!) What about the music, I hear you ask? High-velocity punk-thrash, with buzzsaw vocals. GraySunrise and I were completely tripping and loved every minute of it. Was it music for the ages? Hell no--but it was fun. Ninette and the dancers even threw party favors into the audience--an assortment of stuff, including sex toys and Pez. I got a package of Pez myself. :smile: For more on Powder, go here.
During their show GS and I looked over to the left, and there was Kevin, watching the stage with an expression that was a combination of "Whoa!" and "How the hell are we supposed to follow that?!" g:
After Powder, we had the usual wait for the equipment change. On a screen above, the club was showing old stag films from the late forties and early fifties of Betty Page and Tempest Storm doing the most mincing, hilariously ladylike "naughty" dancing you can imagine. I was fairly riveted on that, but glancing around at the crowd, too. At some point my eye was caught by a white head on the other side of the stairwell, at the back of the dance floor, and I saw that it was JM, rather than the lookalike who had been there a little earlier. (The real thing is always instantly recognizable! :wink: ) He just stood there for a moment. (Maybe he was amused by Betty Page, too. LOL) Then he made his way forward through the crowd. No one seemed to be grabbing him, much less tearing him to pieces, and he got about two-thirds of the way through before I heard an erruption of squealing and his progress slowed. Eventually he got to the stage, turned, and boosted himself up ve-ry slow-ly. Whether that was because it was harder to get up there than he expected, or he was teasing us, or several fans were hanging on to his ankles like stubborn terriers, I don't know.
Okay, a lot of other stuff to describe, and not much on the show. You've seen the playlist, and who did what on which song sort of blurs in my mind. It was a friendly audience, highly energized by the opening acts. GOTR themselves were not in particularly good energy, and some of us were disappointed that there weren't more of the new songs. (But I think that was because it was easier to break Sean in with the old stuff, and I'm fine with the old stuff myself. But I wish they had played "Katie.") I liked the show much, much better than the one at El Rey--which I had disliked so much I almost didn't go this time. JM was in good voice, he hit the notes most of the time ( : ), and although he wasn't as bouncy as I've seen him, he seemed in a pretty good mood and had some nice interaction with the audience--and with Steve and Charlie. Charlie was in his own little separate space, detached from the audience, as he often is, but near the end especially he got a little more into teasing JM. (When JM said, "This is the first time we've played together," Charlie said, "That's because you missed the rehearsal," and JM or Steve said, "You weren't supposed to say that!" LOL At the end JM and Charlie hugged each other.)
One quibble-- Early on, JM got hot (oh shut up) and took his jacket off. As it was coming off his shoulders, there was squealing from the audience, and he snapped "No!" (Or maybe it was "Don't!") He seemed to get over it pretty quickly, but after all those porny Powder shenanigans, it made him look rather prissy to be fending off the sort of attention that lead singers of rock bands usually get as a matter of routine. Especially since Powder, for all their gimmicks, played a tight, well-rehearsed set. And since JM then went on and was his usual teasing self with the audience anyway, exposing his belly by stretching his arms up in the air, and so forth, why spend those two seconds having Issues? But did he look dazzlingly perfect? You bet! (Winter Maiden pauses for a moment to enjoy contemplating her memories.) And I thought the crowd in general was quite well-behaved, and I didn't hear even one single moron screaming "I love you, Spike!"
Okay, I lied-- A second quibble-- JM needs to work on some of his rock star patter. He greeted us with "Hello, LA!", as if he had just dropped in from his world tour, and then said, "Ready to hear some music?" To the latter I wanted to reply, "We've already had some, thanks!" LOL
But he was very friendly with the audience, and seemed to be enjoying himself. (And, yes, there was a lot of talk about cherry-busting. If he can be naughty, why can't we?) He really does know how to work a crowd, and he was connecting with it in an engaging, personal way, unlike Ninette with her highly enjoyable but inhuman sexbot act. The audience was with him, and when he hit the note on "911" (I think) that he crashed and burned on at El Rey, there were cheers. They did two songs after the announced finale, "Good Night, Sweet Girl" (a bad song for JM, but he did fine on it this time), and at one point JM did turn into a bratty Valley Girl, petulantly saying that he wanted to finish and go back to his trailer. It was very cute and good-natured. The last thing he said after they really finished was "Thanks! You were gentle." (Just like Robert Plant. LOL)
I left after GOTR, being wiped out and not up for yet another act.
Someone handed him up a plate of cookies. May I add that, while I think such gifts are touching, as well as (literally) sweet, I hope the boys don't eat unwrapped things given them by fans? In the real world that we and they live in, it's just not safe. One of these days he's going to spend the next six hours watching his hand move. And that's sort of the best case scenario. I know we want to give him things we made with our own two hands, but it's just not a good idea to encourage him (or them) to eat unpackaged food of unknown origin.
Anyway, enough grandmotherly preaching. I had a blast. I really enjoyed spending time there with GraySunrise, Bookie, and MTL (and Lucky, more briefly), meeting Shay and Lea (sorry if I got your names wrong), and finally meeting rockgoddes. I looked for Cheesy, but didn't see her. (We missed you!) And I'm sorry I missed any other MSTers that were there. Uh-- Well, what else to say but "Rock on!" g:
ETA Two things I meant to say that got lost in all the verbosity. (Sorry about that!) The first was that Ninette was sort of a cross between Debbie Harry and Wendy O. Williams, with an interesting combination of energy and affectlessness.
The other--how could I forget?!--was that I wanted to say that we really missed Mousie. Mousie, we wish you could have been with us! I hope your trip is some consolation for having to miss the gig.
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