Most difficult thing Christine ever did onstage

David · #1 04-09-2005, 10:30 AM

the "Spare Me a Little" breakdown/coda ... playing it & singing/vamping ("spare me a little bit .. just a little bit ... don't want much ...") those parts at the same time

.....It's like rubbing your tummy, patting your head, & tapping your feet simultaneously!!!!!!!!!

**jbrownsjr** · #2 04-09-2005, 12:19 PM

Songbird

Only because there's a lot of room to f*ck it up vocally and piano.

**jbrownsjr** · #3 04-09-2005, 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by David

the "Spare Me a Little" breakdown/coda ... playing it & singing/vamping ("spare me a little bit .. just a little bit ... don't want much ...") those parts at the same time

.....It's like rubbing your tummy, patting your head, & tapping your feet simultaneously!!!!!!!!!

which concert was this David?

David · #4 04-09-2005, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

Songbird

Only because there's a lot of room to f*ck it up vocally and piano.

Do you think so? I think songbird is very easy for Chris to play because she doesn't play the studio arrangement. she plays a stripped-down accompaniment arrangement thats probably a cinch for her. the question remains, is it difficult song to sing for chris technically? Opinions may be split on this, jbrown.

David · #5 04-09-2005, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

which concert was this David?

Do you have the trod nossel studios tape? Its on that one, or on the Yale coliseum show. do you have those?

when she switches from the organ over to the electric piano, the song goes into hootenanny mode, kicks into double time, & while she's pounding away in a very rhythmic pattern on e-piano, she has to sing stretchy arcs of melodic phrases across it, like trying to pull a piece of chewing gum across the vast chasms of time & space & olympic peninsula up there in Washington

HomerMcvie · #6 04-09-2005, 12:47 PM

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the song goes into hootenanny mode

Now there you go again, gettin' all technical on us....

SteveMacD · #7 04-09-2005, 03:29 PM

I would have thought drinking a bottle of Dom Perignon during the show and one after the show would be pretty hard...

HomerMcvie · #8 04-09-2005, 04:53 PM

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I would have thought drinking a bottle of Dom Perignon during the show and one after the show would be pretty hard...

Yet, she seemed to master that art pretty quickly. God love her!

PenguinHead · #9 04-09-2005, 06:23 PM

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I would have thought drinking a bottle of Dom Perignon during the show and one after the show would be pretty hard...

Great comment! I love it!

Also add smoking! Christine, John and Lindsey all mastered that on stage at one time or another.

**jbrownsjr** · #10 04-09-2005, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by David

Do you think so? I think songbird is very easy for Chris to play because she doesn't play the studio arrangement. she plays a stripped-down accompaniment arrangement thats probably a cinch for her. the question remains, is it difficult song to sing for chris technically? Opinions may be split on this, jbrown.

actually i didn't think of the stripped down version on stage

i have the sheet music and was thinking of the sheet arrangement, duh!!

but yeah vocals are still hard to cover

David · #11 04-10-2005, 10:59 AM

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i have the sheet music and was thinking of the sheet arrangement, duh!!

Just a heads up. Pretty soon, Lesley's site (www.madnessfades.net) will post the transcription of the arrangement on "Songbird" (not the goofy thing you get in the Rumours songbooks published by Warner Bros.), so that should be nice for lots of people who have asked for it over the years.

She gonna post the entire "Off the Record" full-band notation folio, which seems to be out of print, although I'm not sure.

Also, here's something that not a lot of people seem to be aware of: Chris recorded her piano separately from her vocal for "Songbird," as is the traditional studio method for the Mac people. a lot of people think she just sat down in Zellerbach & played & sang it once & bingo, there's the track for the album. But she spent the day recording the piano tracks & vocal tracks, all separately

aleuzzi · #12 04-11-2005, 11:54 AM

I've heard/watched a lot of Chis' performances and think her vocal interplay with Buckingham on "Eyes of the World" (Mirage Tour) seemed fairly difficult. It's the beginning I'm referring to, where she and he are doing this kind of pygmy-influenced call-and-response exchange.