Great show by Ms Crow in Paris last Wednesday, it was my fourth Sheryl show (Paris 1996, San Francisco 2002/Oakland 2002 opening for...the Stones) and I liked every minute of it. The Cigale is a small place, that's the way music was made to played, not in stadiums, actually the PacBell concert in 2002 is when I decided I would no longer go to stadiums but would stick to arenas !
Anyway, I was surprised to see such a line-up (2 guitar players, bass, drums, percussion, keyboard, 2 backup singers, almost bad as the Stones of late) I had forgotten Sheryl had opened for Santana the previous night at the much larger Bercy arena. The sound wasn't great though, a bit muffled and at one point when her voice got some static, too loud at the end too but not deafening like a few other concerts I've been too where your ears "ring" for days!
We got one chestnut after the other, it's amazing how much quality material she's built up and every album got the nod, except for Wildflowers possibly, don't know that one very well. The highlights were Babylon and Gasoline, especially the part where they played the first few bars of
Gimme Shelter (update : Here is an excellent recording of Gasoline/Gimme Shelter (comes in at 7'50") from a concert she did in LA in early June ->
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LEHZXQ2T) I got chills, the BEST rock tune ever to me, bar none, but they went back to Gasoline pretty quickly.
Sheryl told us her friend Eddy Merckx was in attendance but I didn't see him so it seems some good stuff came out of her relationship with the one-balled robot...
When I was leaving the guy in front of me talked to the guy at the mixing desk and he gave him the setlist, so I asked for one too, would never have thought of it! I scanned it (see below). It's missing "Rock'n'Roll" at the end, good tune but I would have preferred the full version of Gimme Shelter, Sheryl or the backup singers could certainly have sung the Merry Clayton parts.
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Sheryl Crow live at the Cigale, Paris (SSC) (Read 885 times)
