One of my fave live performances...Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth on drums. I thought I posted this here before but couldn't find it...watch her early stuff compared to later and she's an entirely different person. Prefer the "stage fright" version of Cat Power.
Yeah me too, last night she was weird, like methed out weird though I don't think that's her thing. And she syncopates the songs all weird, Metal Heart was unrecognizable last night.
I've seen her four times, the first was pointless, she just cried the whole night. The second time was better, she opened for the Pretenders and kept the lights off but you could tell she was in her soul spot and it worked. The third time she had just had that bout with massive face-swelling allergies requiring hospitalization, she was on a strict diet and had to cut out a lot of things. She sang like a f***ing siren, it was incredible. Last night she was real edgy and talky but it was like a paranoid schizo kind of talk that made me think it's time for a meds balance check, but I don't want to judge those "touched" by God because sometimes it's weird having to be amongst people, mush less be ON and perform for 18,000 of them, so I give her a solid pass for her weird stage shenanigans at the bowl. But I hear you, I like shy Chan more than wigged out Chan. Or Cat Power, whatever.
Ugh, that is an incredible performance. Her lower octaves are molasses, then when she yodels and cracks to the upper octave during the chorus? Heaven. She doesn't yodel these days. It could be because of legitimate throat/allergy issues. But it's lovely hearing her velvetty lower octaves. Worth the price of admission. The Pixies were alright. The encore sucked, they shoulda gone Velouria since the crowd was going nuts for California lyrics.