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vivienDixie Chicks are amazingly brilliant in concert. I was a little reluctant to go last night (cos, dude, I was missing Tuesday Night Girls Club!) but I had a great time.
Now we had bought tickets before the whole brouhaha, but we were really glad we had - that made my firebrand husband even more excited to go and support them. And by the looks of the packed Pepsi Center (where the Avs play) everyone else came out to support them too. There were a few empty seats scattered here and there, but not a whole lot. I was in the perfect spot to check this out as we were in the nosebleed section - literally, the next to the last row before seats stop. The concert was set up in the round, though, with great big video screens, so actually the seats did not suck.
Before the concert they showed videos on the big screens - everything from Johnny Cash to Avril Lavigne to the Red Hot Chile Peppers to Dolly Parton doing a beautiful cover of "Shine" by Collective Soul. The opening act was Michelle Branch and we were quite impressed. She did a good job, sang very well, and put on a nice show.
I was especially happy to hear "Goodbye To You" which was done in between the overorchestrated single and the acoustic Buffy version. Very nice.
Then the little intermission between the two. No more videos now, just songs. Very situation specific, funny songs. "Peace Love and Understanding" by Elvis Costello, "Everybody Wants To Rule the World" Tears for Fears, "Our Lips Are Sealed" the Go Gos, And "Born in the USA". Yeah, we were chuckling.
Then the Chicks came out full force - what a show. They have such incredible sound - both instrumentally and vocally. It was one of the best live shows I've seen - very energetic and personable and real, actual country music (I am a fan of the old school country and bluegrass). They performed many songs from all three albums - my faves were "Wide Open Spaces", "White Trash Wedding" (which rocked! I mean, blue grassed), and "Long Time Gone". What I also really liked was how the show was staged in the round. Since there was no backdrop, the runways going around the performance area were what had the video graphics - it was pretty darn cool. And when they introduced their band, they did it onscreen like the Brady Bunch. It was clever.
The "incident" was discussed, right before a great song called "Truth #2" - which Natalie said made so much more sense and had a tremendous amount of meaning after the fact. There were many cheers, though there were some boos when the Chicks were sitting and discussing the brouhaha. But mostly there were cheers. Then they played the song with an accompanying video showing images from every major American protest movement from the Suffragettes to the Civil Rights movement to gay rights and pro-choice. I was blown away. Paul got a "Free Natalie" bumper sticker, he was so tickled by the feistiness.
It was a great show, and I'm glad now that I got to go.
Now we had bought tickets before the whole brouhaha, but we were really glad we had - that made my firebrand husband even more excited to go and support them. And by the looks of the packed Pepsi Center (where the Avs play) everyone else came out to support them too. There were a few empty seats scattered here and there, but not a whole lot. I was in the perfect spot to check this out as we were in the nosebleed section - literally, the next to the last row before seats stop. The concert was set up in the round, though, with great big video screens, so actually the seats did not suck.
Before the concert they showed videos on the big screens - everything from Johnny Cash to Avril Lavigne to the Red Hot Chile Peppers to Dolly Parton doing a beautiful cover of "Shine" by Collective Soul. The opening act was Michelle Branch and we were quite impressed. She did a good job, sang very well, and put on a nice show.
I was especially happy to hear "Goodbye To You" which was done in between the overorchestrated single and the acoustic Buffy version. Very nice.
Then the little intermission between the two. No more videos now, just songs. Very situation specific, funny songs. "Peace Love and Understanding" by Elvis Costello, "Everybody Wants To Rule the World" Tears for Fears, "Our Lips Are Sealed" the Go Gos, And "Born in the USA". Yeah, we were chuckling.
Then the Chicks came out full force - what a show. They have such incredible sound - both instrumentally and vocally. It was one of the best live shows I've seen - very energetic and personable and real, actual country music (I am a fan of the old school country and bluegrass). They performed many songs from all three albums - my faves were "Wide Open Spaces", "White Trash Wedding" (which rocked! I mean, blue grassed), and "Long Time Gone". What I also really liked was how the show was staged in the round. Since there was no backdrop, the runways going around the performance area were what had the video graphics - it was pretty darn cool. And when they introduced their band, they did it onscreen like the Brady Bunch. It was clever.
The "incident" was discussed, right before a great song called "Truth #2" - which Natalie said made so much more sense and had a tremendous amount of meaning after the fact. There were many cheers, though there were some boos when the Chicks were sitting and discussing the brouhaha. But mostly there were cheers. Then they played the song with an accompanying video showing images from every major American protest movement from the Suffragettes to the Civil Rights movement to gay rights and pro-choice. I was blown away. Paul got a "Free Natalie" bumper sticker, he was so tickled by the feistiness.
It was a great show, and I'm glad now that I got to go.
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Date: 2003-07-10 08:31 pm (UTC)It, "Top of the World", and a few other songs the Chicks sing were written by Patty Griffin (http://www.pattygriffin.net/), who is very cool in her own right. Check her out some time! :)
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Date: 2003-07-11 08:37 am (UTC)