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Posted by: DaHouster on May 04, 2005 - 12:24 PM
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I attended this kick-butt concert on April 27th.
Bottom line: American Idol got at least one thing right.
By DaHouster
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After digesting this concert, Kelly Clarkson is on her way to becoming a great artist and musician. She has a sharp mind. So many lousy things happened to her during this concert, and she still was great.
I'm going to be honest -- I've been to some great concerts -- if you haven't been to a lot of concerts, then this might have been the greatest one you've ever been at, but don't kill me, as great and entertaining as it was, it was not at the level of Fleetwood Mac, Jackson Browne/Sean Colvin, Pearl Jam (I have two of their live concert CD's), or Billy Joel's Millennium concert. Not that anyone has the right to expect Kelly Clarkson, less than three years into her career, to be at the level of the above-mentioned seasoned performers.
On the other hand, in terms of enjoyability and talent, a few years ago I saw R.E.M. at Jones Beach, and as much as I love Mike Stipe & Co., Kelly's concert last night wiped the floor with R.E.M. So certainly she ranks way up there.
In fact, I'd say this was on a par with the Linda Ronstadt concert I saw at Radio City Music Hall in 1982, which I think was her "polka-dot" period. Now Kelly has to add "You're No Good" to the influence medley, as Linda's heir apparent.
Kelly has improved by leaps and bounds from the first American Idol tour, where I could not hear her much because all the tweens were screaming, and from the IT, because in a smaller hall with good acoustics like Hammerstein, you can hear THAT VOICE.
Pre-Concert:
Some girl is wearing a "Pray For The Soul Of Betty" t-shirt. That's Crapstantine Maroulis's band. I rub my eyes, but it was foreshadowing. Did you know that PFTSOB's album hit No. 1 on amazon.com?
Lots of cigarettes are being smoked on the line.
The cops have to move us continuously because the line is blocking the exit from a parking lot.
Some woman starts yelling at one of the cops because another woman "who looks like a man" is breaking the line. Its a scene out of "Seinfeld."
The line moves very slowly. The ticket says the concert starts at 6:30 p.m.
6:05 p.m. The rain starts. Everyone gets soaked. Security (half of which look like moonlighting correction officers from Rikers Island and the Bedford Hills (Women's) Correctional Facility) keeps a tight rein on the line. There's a few office buildings with space to get out of the rain -- security doesn't let us stand there because the doorman doesn't want his entrance blocked. I say -- the hell with that and stay dry for a minute or two.
6:20 p.m. Loud claps of thunder. I'm thinking of two songs: "Riders On The Storm, into this house we're born, into this world we're thrown", and "Love, Rain On Me" (I could have busted that one out, but everyone would have thought I'm nuts, correctly). There's also "The Thunder Rolls" by Garth Brooks.
6:35 p.m. Finally get into the venue, soaking wet. Can we hang out on the floor? Can we buy merch? Security -- go to your seat! right now! damnit!
Trudge up to second balcony. Take any seat you want says the Rikers Island prison guard to me.
Sit in about the third row, center. Good sight lines, much better with the binoculars. Most of the crowd is young women, even some kids, but there is a smattering of older folk and some single guys, too.
I did not buy a general admission ticket for the floor. Where there are no seats. Eventually, it became a giant mosh pit of about 1,000 people. Thank you, I'm much happier with a seat at a rock concert. Yes, I said rock concert, because that is what this was. And would all of those kids there want a guy old enough to be their dad in the mosh pit with them? I think not.
For the next hour plus? Nothing. Nada. Bupkis. Boredom sets in. At least the PA is playing some decent rock and roll (that would end later). By now I'm really bored, so I whip out the CD player, turn on the Classic rock station. Playing is Paul Simon's "Kodachrome." I laugh because there's a million signs in the venue that say no photography of any kind, you'll get the guillotine if you try to take a picture.
Next song is "We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister. I wanted to sing that in opposition to the long delay.
It's now about 7:30 p.m., still no Graham Colton. I'm thinking who does Kelly think she is? Bruce Springsteen, who keeps his fans waiting till like 9:30 to start his Giants Stadium concerts? Its OK -- but still, "The Waiting -- Is The Hardest Part" (Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers).
At 7:50, I get really po'd, turn on the Doors CD, play "Light My Fire", which is 7 minutes long, and then "20th Century Fox".
10 minutes later, I can put the player away. Graham Colton is on. The crowd by now has bought 139652 glowsticks and 11359 5 X 7 glossies of Kelly from roving vendors.
"The Graham Colton Band". They remind me of Third Eye Blind, The Goo Goo Dolls, or Dishwalla. Not quite as good as all those three. The first few songs seem designed to fit in to POP and HOT AC formats. Graham Colton is a very nice guy who did a great job of explaining what the songs are all about. "Cigarette" was much more of an alt-rock song which was the best of the set. Some girl sitting next to me, I think her name was Mya, who texted her friend "I'm At The Kelly Clarkson Concert And Am So Excited!"
Graham Colton looks a lot like a young Jackson Browne, and if he wrote songs like Jackson Browne's instead of just songs about high school and college romance, he might do better. Didn't buy the CD. They sputtered with a piece of Oasis's "Champagne Supernova", a song I've always disliked.
Now its 8:30 p.m., and the PA starts playing "Complicated" by Avril Lavigne. The crowd sings. It sounds crappy. Then comes "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers. I think the PA turned on Z-100. I usually like The Killers, but with the crowd singing, I hated it too. PA should have played "Smile Like You Mean It." After playing "Rich Girl" by Gwen Stefani and "Candy Shop" by 50 Cent, I'm ready to scream. I now officially can't stand Gwen Stefani -- her songs are crap, they're even bad for dancing. Out comes the CD player. Five minutes before Kelly comes on, the classic rock station plays Aerosmith's "Dream On." That was a very good sign.
THE MAIN EVENT:
Meanwhile, the roadies have set things up on the stage, including the faux Asian gas lamps and the rugs from Einstein Moomjy carpets. It looks cool, but as we would find out later, the carpet didn't do its job. Poor Kelly needs an Oreck vacuum cleaner (and maybe David Oreck himself) on the tour bus.
Then before you know it, some girl is standing in front of them, the lights go on, a very rough guitar is playing...dun dun dun...
Since U Been Gone...
The low notes in SUBG sounded a bit strained.
There was something wrong. See, someone had a beer on that stage, probably, or maybe on the band bus, and Kelly stepped on that Jagged Little Pill-sized glass, and still got through SUBG without having to go to Bellevue for stitches. After the concert, I thought she should have sang Annie Lennox's "Walking On Broken Glass" as part of the influence medley. I don't know how many artists could have belted out a song like SUBG with a piece of glass in their foot.
Her "twirling" -- more like dancing. Not like Stevie Nicks. But now I want Kelly to add "Rhiannon" to the influence medley.
From there on it was much. much better. The things she does with her voice on "Walk Away" that makes it sound totally unlike the album version. When she got up to "Just Missed The Train", her voice had kicked totally into gear. There is no one out there who could take "Just Missed The Train" and sing it the way she does live.
By the way, do you know how strong Kelly's voice is? Let me tell you, they had to stop the Yankees-Angels game because her voice carried (tm 'Til Tuesday/Aimee Mann, not Underwood) all the way to The Bronx.
I think this is the point where she changed from the pants and the studded belt into the living room drapes, a/k/a the multicolored skirt from hell. She almost had two wardrobe malfunctions, and had whatever was falling down repaired twice. There are plenty of tailors in the area who would have been happy to fix it, too.
Late in the concert, she changed skirts, and eventually wore a tablecloth.
Kelly's band was great. And loud. Rolling Stones loud. Garden level. Now I know why she wears that Stones shirt (which had a lot of cut outs in the back).
The binoculars showed a small, but not that tiny, beautiful blonde singer. I liked the blond with a bit of the dark roots in the front.
She was bouncing and booty shaking a lot, especially on "Miss Independent."
The soul medley (What's Up Lonely, Thankful, The Trouble With Love Is from her first album), was great. Again, dirty Kelly voice and what she does with it is hard to describe, its sort of like a slalom skiier, but smoother and a lot less showy than Christina Aguilera, for example.
Influence Medley: She did an off the hook version of "Piece Of My Heart", a little country-ish, but much better than Faith Hill's. I wish she had a male backup singer, because I was singing the "Break It" parts that Big Brother and The Holding Company did.
If Kelly performed at B.B. King's on 42nd Street, the old man would run on stage and thank her for singing "The Thrill Is Gone." Kelly can now, in addition to being a rock and roller and many other types of singer, go to a jazz blues club and do a whole set of torch songs with no problem.
And "Sweet Dreams" was great too.
I heard "Don't" on the internet when she first sang it in Minnesota, but the 'net doesn't do it justice. This is an unbelievable song, and the soft singing with just the acoustic guitar -- well, all those people who call Kelly "Yelly" or untalented should just crawl back under their rocks. She puts lots of emotion she puts into it.
"Beautful Diasater" -- I think in some ways better than the Piano acoustic version on the Breakaway album.
She got through the stunning "Because Of You".
"Addicted" -- On this one, "A moment Like This" and "Behind These Hazel Eyes", the band was SO LOUD that it was a miracle that I could hear her voice. That's a good thing.
I think it was after "Miss Independent", where the booty shake was in full force, that she realized that the skirt was going to reveal quite a bit, including what she terms her big ol' booty. And then she came out with "This Ain't Scores, y'all", or something like that, and that's where Kelly really connected with me. The comment totally cracked me up. Miss American Wholesome Idol knows about New York strip clubs. Next tour, Kelly's gonna start smashing guitars on stage. Scores might be the one place that would reject Kelly -- she doesn't have the upper body equipment, if you know what I mean.
Oh "Miss Independent" was so much better than the recorded version.
People were throwing up all kinds of stuff on stage, and she eventually put on an shirt over her shirt that said something like "Boys And Girls Like The Booty."
"Breakaway": the crowd was singing. and they sounded good. See how Kelly makes songs sound good? Even the crowd sounded great singing "Breakaway." But Kelly singing it was really sensational. I've heard her sing "Breakaway" on lots of TV shows. This performance was by far the best she's ever sung "Breakaway", so I was glad that she ended so well.
If you go to her concerts, wait to year hear Punk Rock "A Moment Like This".
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