Teeth Grinder's Collection
Hope Sandoval 08/23/2002
Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA
| Source | AUD |
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| Media | CD-R 1 disc |
| Tech Notes | Cdr > EAC > Wav > TLH > Flac(8) |
| J-Card Comment | 01:12:29 Received in a trade.This show was marred with people using flash photography and talking throughout the performance which boils over and the band leave the stage. I'd always assumed this to be a complete recording but found the following review of the gig which states that they came back for an encore which is not captured here... Review..................................................... All in all Hope probably didn't play much more than an hour. But I would gladly pay to see the same show again. I have listened to Mazzy Star since 1990 and always felt the band to be a singularly wonderful group. I have Hope's new cd and rather like it. But I went to see her w/ few - or at least marginal - expectations. There were, indeed, some very weird vibes/issues bandied about...some pretty serious emotional shots fired over the bow...some undercurrents of spiritual conflict...some psychic blood-letting...a weird kind of rock & roller stigmata...possible suicide in the works right on the stage. But all in all, it only made the moment that much more profound...the art that much more painfully real. Hope is sure as Hell no mere hippie chick. She is clearly no simple guy band prop or accessory. Hope is no slinky floozy... no Barbie doll on Quaaludes. Hope's rock solid...nobody's fool... though superficially she may seem to be a bit of a prima donna... or at least a bit weary of the BS from a long time away from home on the lonely not so silky road. But then a blessed even saintly kind of weariness & dreariness is perhaps ultimately Hope's signal virtue...her singular genre...her veritable stock in trade. The encore was unexpected to say the least. But it was as appropriate and powerful as any encore I've ever heard. The Stones "Play With Fire"... It fit the mood of the evening like a custom made suit. Yes, Hope made it clear... Don't play with her..."cause yer playin' w/ FIRE!" Hope ultimately blew the smoke from the barrel of her six-shooter, twirled and slapped her piece in it's holster, leapt up on her steed and w/ a kick of her spurs and a hearty shout of "HeeYA"! galloped off into the bleeding fleeting sun...as it sank in a swirling cloud of desert (demon vs pixie) dust. Hope hit and ran...like some ghostly High Plains Drifter...some Zorro-like femme fatale..some kind of Immortal Masked Madonna. ("Who was that masked woman?!?!") In the end, the music spoke infinitely louder than any mere mortal words. Hope is a very warm blooded human being...a full-fledged artist in her own right...not some stupid flavor of the month "entertainer". You come to Hope on her own terms. No negotiation...no patronizing...no condescension. No freakin' monkey business. Hope gets right down to business and doesn't let up - until she's ready to bolt. She's as serious as a Momma bear whose cubs are threatened. (I seem to have enjoyed the show as much as anyone. But my experience was somehow apparently not quite what any of the other reviewers have reported. The comparison/contrast may be of some interest. I was perhaps a bit older than the average person in the crowd at 43. That may account for a fair amount of my own particular bent here. But like the others, I could not possibly hope to avoid mention of the tension. In the end though it was all part of the vivid memories I'm sure to retain. In the end it was what it needed to be...what it oughta be. It was what it was.) |
| Trades Allowed | Yes Traded from: Whiskeybob |
| Ratings | Show: * Sound: B+ |
| Reference / Generation | A523 |
| Lists | Lossless Audiolist |
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