Tuesday, April 20, 2004
"blondie, redeemed."
whew. after watching blondie perform on Divas 2004 I feel the band has redeemed itself, or at least Debbie Harry has redeemed herself. A few weeks back I watched them perform on the Today show on a weekday (they also had a better performance on weekend Today a few days later). Debbie Harry was several notes above the proper pitch at the beginning of their new song "Good Boys." I was horrified. Having seen a great performance by Blondie at the 2003 Ribfest in Naperville, IL, I was shocked that something like that could happen. She signaled to the band to stop, they signaled to keep going and finally they worked it out, although at the end of the song, her mic was still on as she began to yell at the band, but I couldn't quite catch what they were saying. Needless to say, she seemed to be in an altered state during that entire performance - her eyes looked distant, she looked confused - the best way I can describe it is as if she had alzheimer's disease. Not sure if it was the screw-up, the small stage setting or some other external factor, but she definitely looked 100% better at the Divas show. Enough that I might actually consider paying to see them perform at the 9:30 club next month. i really like their new song, "Good Boys" - even though my first time hearing it was the aforementioned off-pitch performance. i really really like that song. really.
here are some other comments I found about the Today show performance:
http://jeffgothelf.com/journal/index.php?itemid=131
http://www.woogieworld.org/ - April 10th entry
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whew. after watching blondie perform on Divas 2004 I feel the band has redeemed itself, or at least Debbie Harry has redeemed herself. A few weeks back I watched them perform on the Today show on a weekday (they also had a better performance on weekend Today a few days later). Debbie Harry was several notes above the proper pitch at the beginning of their new song "Good Boys." I was horrified. Having seen a great performance by Blondie at the 2003 Ribfest in Naperville, IL, I was shocked that something like that could happen. She signaled to the band to stop, they signaled to keep going and finally they worked it out, although at the end of the song, her mic was still on as she began to yell at the band, but I couldn't quite catch what they were saying. Needless to say, she seemed to be in an altered state during that entire performance - her eyes looked distant, she looked confused - the best way I can describe it is as if she had alzheimer's disease. Not sure if it was the screw-up, the small stage setting or some other external factor, but she definitely looked 100% better at the Divas show. Enough that I might actually consider paying to see them perform at the 9:30 club next month. i really like their new song, "Good Boys" - even though my first time hearing it was the aforementioned off-pitch performance. i really really like that song. really.
here are some other comments I found about the Today show performance:
http://jeffgothelf.com/journal/index.php?itemid=131
http://www.woogieworld.org/ - April 10th entry
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