![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Suzanne Vega concert
She's no Jane Siberry :), but it was fun. Crowded -- too big for Rosebud, really, people standing all in the margins -- but one of the advantages of going solo is scamming a left-over good seat.
I was happily surprised that album they played most heavily was her first -- played half of it -- which is also my favorite. Maybe she likes it too. Usually people would rather play their later songs (and I guess it's for a reason that they change what it is they write).
I was really floored, though, by the performances of some of the later heavier songs: "When Heroes Go Down", which had never really grabbed me until this, and "99.9 °F", which was always a good song, but here got a flat-out performance with some fine electric guitar.
She said, to a request for "Solitude Standing", that (ironically) she had never arranged/practiced it for solo performance or for this band. I wonder if that applies to other stuff from that album, which it occurs to me now didn't show up much. "In the Eye", "Night Vision", and (ooh) "If Language Were Liquid" would have been great to hear live. And "Caspar Hauser's Song" is, for some reason about the tone of her voice (and the what sounds like heavy Aphex all over through the album), the most blankly despairing song I've ever heard. That's a compliment.
I was happily surprised that album they played most heavily was her first -- played half of it -- which is also my favorite. Maybe she likes it too. Usually people would rather play their later songs (and I guess it's for a reason that they change what it is they write).
I was really floored, though, by the performances of some of the later heavier songs: "When Heroes Go Down", which had never really grabbed me until this, and "99.9 °F", which was always a good song, but here got a flat-out performance with some fine electric guitar.
She said, to a request for "Solitude Standing", that (ironically) she had never arranged/practiced it for solo performance or for this band. I wonder if that applies to other stuff from that album, which it occurs to me now didn't show up much. "In the Eye", "Night Vision", and (ooh) "If Language Were Liquid" would have been great to hear live. And "Caspar Hauser's Song" is, for some reason about the tone of her voice (and the what sounds like heavy Aphex all over through the album), the most blankly despairing song I've ever heard. That's a compliment.