Re: Patti setlist at the Getty

[" Seachel" <seachel>]

Thanks for the set list, Lawrence, and the accurate quote.
I am diligent to keep a setlist at at her concerts, but I soon realized
(when she started Notebook) that I don't know the all of her poetry as well
as the music.

Others have covered the performance itself, I will address other aspects.
I was at the front of the line outside from 5:00-7:30, and was rather
dismayed to find the auditorium very full when we were finally admitted at
8pm.  I asked the ladies at the "Welcome" table what was up with that, and
they said that Patti had a guest list of 185 names (and one crying baby)!
Repaying old favors?   Making new connections?  Comp-ing Getty bigwigs?
I'm only gently complaining.  I myself had a good seat, and was so grateful
to be there.

I felt it was hard for the fans to get close, thus the atmosphere was VERY
stiffled.  Fans give her great feedback (albeit irreverent), but the VIPs in
the front rows just sat stoney faced....such a shame.  If the fans had been
concentrated in the front or even NEAR it, we could have generated the
requisite energy to wake up the rest of the assembly....

I had come at 3:00 (for free!) to see her speak in the symposium, and she
completely won over that scattered assembly of about 250.  She was certainly
vibrating at a different pitch than the rest of the presenters!  She was so
relaxed and real in both physicality and language as opposed to the
intellectual others ("the suits") that were there on the panel going on and
on about "the metaphor of the glass, the screen, the mirror of the cinema,
the psyche's vanishing point".  They TALK it, she DOES it.   She had that
humble "aw shucks" attitude, we've all seen.   I just hope she realizes how
EXTREMELY well she DID come off in the symposium.  Maybe she'll see the
video.  I wonder if they sell the videos?

She did SO well, in fact, that when the general public attending the all day
symposium came out at 6:00, many immediately asked where to get tickets to
the 7:30 poetry and song event....but of course, the event had been sold out
for a month.

A highlight for me -- I met Phil Braen, in the company of his lovely wife
and 10-year old daughter.  As always, nice to put faces to the names on the
list.

The only Patti moments even close to the ones we know and love, were the
opening reading of Piss Factory (although done much less intensely than
usual), and the encore Dancing Barefoot (her voice sounded great! Evenly
modulated, raspy but fine tuned).  The people who had never seen her before
got the Patti "hit" with those two pieces.

-Chelsea


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lawrence French" <lrfrench>
To: <babel-list>
Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 2:51 AM
Subject: Patti setlist at the Getty


>
> As Patti said before one song during this show, if we
> don't get it right, since we're in a museum, just call
> it art.  Despite a few mis-steps, it was that - being
> a totally unique and brilliant evening of performance
> art.
>
>
> Piss Factory
> Notebook
> Dog Dream
> Oath
> Come Back Little Sheba
> (Patti intrroduced Jackson after this song, by saying
> "we did practice today in the bathroon of our hotel. -
> Jackson has played a bit here and there, with my band,
> but this is the first time Jackson and I have played
> together by ourselves, other than the family
> bathroom).
>
> Grateful
> Little Lamb
> Boy Cried Wolf
> Jackson solo
> Jenny's Song (From THREE PENNY OPERA)
> Moon Over Alabama
> (from THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY)
> Poem writ in memory of Harry Smith
> Lost in the Stars (From LOST IN THE STARS)
>
> encore
>
> Dancing Barefoot
>
>
>
>
>
>
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