Jacks 2nd Show Yes This Sat. Roll Call
 

Okay who is going?

SNLB and I are front row Pit!:blob2: Who else is going? Fess Up! It's only 4 more days. Let me tell you that we literally sweated-out these past three weeks here in SoCal just waiting for those pesky-Pit tickets to go on sale. Nobody knew, until last week the who, the what, the when, and the how. But something told me that they would eventually be sold. Gawd it was torture.

But now that we have those little babies in hand we are as happy as ticks on a old coon-hound.:blob2: WooWhee!

CarolC

I'm kind of bumbed I didn't find a way to go. As much as I hate ZZ Top I would've had a great time. Oh well. :shrug:

DId you get those off Ticketmaster??

Last week I received an email from jack offering 2 pit for a $500 tax-deduct donation. :shrug:

Have we been able to confirm yet if Stevie is indeed performing last in the evening?

TACA, an organization for parents of autistic children, had exclusive rights to selling 100 Pit tickets. The rest are being given away this week, every 15 minutes between 5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m., on 93.1 JackFM. They were never available through TM.

JackFM notified everyone that registered, on their website as a loyal listener, (via email) that TACA would be selling Pit tickets on Thursday last week. They only gave us two days notice and never put it up on their web-site so a lot of people missed out. In any event they were completely sold out by 9:30 pm. the day they went on sale through TACA's website. And, yes, as Btlfulchild said, they cost $500 a pair. But, that includes VIP parking, 2 Jack Tshirts, 4 key chains, 2 bumper stickers and, of course, 2 tax deductible, Pit tickets. Since SNLB and I were among the first to order, we got front row.

I'm sure Stevie will be last. It should be a fab day. I went to KLOS's Mark & Brian concert at PAC Amp last Saturday, and Paul Rodgers (the headliner) was last. That was a 4 hour concert with three bands. The first two blew but they were worth suffering through just to hear Paul Rodgers sing all his fantastic hits and get to shake his hand. He puts on an excellent show and really interacts with his audience.

We're thinking each band will play about 45 minutes with Stevie playing about an hour. We will see. TM has crap seats but scalpers are sitting on a mountain of inventory and if you play your cards right you could easily get a good deal on Orch rows A/B right now. There are at least 17 seats in Orch B out there and the prices are starting to come down.

Three more Days:blob2:
CarolC

Yes, I noticed the prices are getting better with the brokers..It's looking like I might get to go with some of these better broker prices.

Hope you can get a good deal! Where there is a will there is a way!

I see you live in San Bernadino. I live in Rancho Cucamonga. If you need someone to ride with, you can go with SNLB and me. I'm leaving here about 1:15 and picking her at 2:00 giving us 2 hrs (It should only take an hour though.) to get to Irvine. Let us know.

CarolC

I didn't do bad. I could've spent a lot more and gotten WAY up front, but I got ORCH Row K , for only $128 each, that's only like 40 bucks over face value! I say not bad. I always go through ticketmark.com, they have great prices, and I trust them ,as I've used them many times (Plus I had a $15 off coupon with them I hadn't used yet!!) It's gonna be a great show. I'm always excited for Stevie obviously, but I'm also equally excited to see the Pretenders--which I've never seen live. I think Sugar Ray will be fun too.

I'm going! I'm going! I'm going! Oh, but I guess you already knew that, huh!? :laugh:

As Stevie sings~

I CAN'T WAIT! :blob2:

Look out Brian (Stray Cats) Setzer and Stevie, HERE I COME!

Sugar Ray is fun - I saw them with Stevie back in '01 during a radio concert thing similar to this one.

I hope everyone has fun. :woohoo: I was gonna try for the giveaway pit seats by calling in, but the number won't go through since I live in San Diego. Oh well. I'll count my blessings as I've been able to see Stevie twice this year already.

:wavey:

~jamie

That's great-row K for little over face. I will have to try them sometimes. I use Barrys or Cheappricedtickets. Good job!

Know what you mean Jaime. Once you get Pit or first few rows you never want to go back. Remember a woman can always change her mind.

CarolC:]

They have the lineup times up on the JACK FM site now:

Sugar Ray 5:00
Stray Cats 5:35
The Pretenders 6:30
ZZ Top 7:25
Stevie Nicks 8:45

Prices have come down for you last minute buyers. :] Cheappricedtickets has 2nd row Pit for about $400 a pair (that includes 15 percent service fee.) TM is also releasing some orchestra tickets I noticed. Sure they are in the back right now but that's better than the loge they have been offering since day one and who knows, by the end of the day, they could be closer to the front.

Only one more day to go. I can't wait!

CarolC:blob2: :blob2: :blob2: :blob2:

Is Jack FM broacasting it?

Not that I know of. They don't mention it on their website.


CarolC

One could hope I guess hahaa

It's going to be a five hour show so maybe they'll broadcast some of it. Your right-you never know.

Only about 25 more hours to go!

Carol:lol:

WAKE UP STEVIE FANS. ONLY 14 MORE HOURS AND STEVIE HITS THE STAGE!!!!

SEE YOU AT THE SHOW. COME SAY HI. SNLB AND I ARE IN SEATS 9/10-ROW 1. :] :wavey:

CHOW FOR NOW:laugh:

CAROLC

Hope everyone has a great time at the concert, and maybe gets some photos, too? :p

Barbara

Thanks for the times ,I hope they will stream it.

Thanks BarbJ from Kentucky. I just got back from Sears. They had a morning speical on SanDisk memory cards. I got 2 Gigs for $15 so I will be shooting the entire concert if I can from the front row. Depends on security.

Carol:wavey:

have fun tonight.

I just went to Jack FM's site - looks like they aren't streaming. :( AND, it looks like they are allowing concert-goers a chance to MEET their favorite artist of the show! I hope a Ledgie signs up and wins so they can meet Stevie. :) I've dreamt of meeting Stevie twice in the past week. It really sucks when I wake up. :rolleyes:

~jamie

Since Jack is not streaming. I hope someone is recording Stevie's segment for us all.

And maybe a play-by-play? :woohoo: Even if she just does an abbreviated CV set.

how was the show last night?

Brief Report For Now!

Temperatures soared yesterday at Verizon and We held center stage as usual. Stevie did 10 songs. They had problems with the video presentation so they Nixed that which wasn't really missed. What was missed was her Edge walk because of the barriers they erected in front of the stage. She walked the edge of the stage but could only wave. No band intro either.

The show was shortened because (a) Irvine has an 11:00 p.m. curfew and (b) they added a last minute act.

Set List::blob2: :]
1. Stand Back
2. Enchanted
3. If Anyone Falls
4. Riannon
5. Dreams
6. Gold Dust Woman
7. I Need To Know
8. Landslide
9. Edge of 17
10.Rock and Roll

A shout-out to SNLB, Shebop, and Joanna, who like me, stood at the stage through all of the opening acts (4hrs) to assure our spot. Reminded me of how we did the same thing at the HOB in Anaheim for Lindsey back in June. But as all you Ledgies know it was worth the effort.

Stevie rocked even though she got so confused because of the time constraints put on her to be off by 11:00 p.m. that she left the stage for a wardrobe change when she wasn't scheduled to do that. She came back and shared her goof-up with the audience and it was nice to she her so spontaneous.

The girls had new outfits on and Brett was back on keyboards. Waddy even had a new outfit. Everyone was allowed to take as many pictures as we wanted to including extented videos and of course we did. I will upload some to Snapfish but can't do videos because of my system. I'm sure SNLB will though.

CarolC

Thanks for the quickie update! Glad you had fun! Why the barriers though? I've never seen those before at Irvine...:shrug:

i am glad that you had fun .

MY JACK FM SHOW REVIEW :


So the Jack FM show was f-ing amazing..I'll say that Stray Cats, Pretenders and Sugar Ray all put on a helluva show..I'm not a big ZZ Top fan, but they rocked the place as well.

First off the crowd was great, lots of pot, drunks and beach balls, but VERY lively. I'd say 70% stood and danced throughout the entire show, through everyone's set. It was like a carnival atmosphere at Irvine Meadows (now known as Verizon Wireless) Amphitheater. Booths everywhere, giveaways, lots of food, and a HUGE diversity of many different types of people. The show was sold out, and it was people galore all the way to the lawn..At first everything was delayed about 15 mins from the beginning, but they threw in a surprise set by rapper Tone Loc (known for Wild Thing and Funky Cold Medina)--who did about 4 songs I think...

So Stevie actually didn't come out till about 9:30 (instead of 8:30). She would have came out early, but you could tell her crew was NOT used to setting up in such short notice. Her set took the longest to build and get right. You can tell she's a perfectionist. Even though they had a rotating set, and hers was set up basically while ZZ Top was playing, the technical stuff wasn't. Her stage/sound girl tested EVERY instrument and mic on stage with the sound crew to the point where she was at Stevie's mic saying "Stevie vocal, Stevie vocal, Stevie vocal" and the same with "Jana vocal" etc until it was "perfect." They kept tweaking with Stevie's backdrop screen, and never got it to work fully. So when Stevie came out, there was no screens at all, which was kind of odd, just a big black curtain behind her set.

It seemed like it would be a little odd having Stevie close the show, since the Pretenders and ZZ Top were much more "rock" than Stevie it seemed, if that made sense...but it worked. She got a major response from the audience..The setlist was:

Stand Back
Enchanted
If Anyone Falls
Rhiannon
Dreams
Gold Dust Woman
I Need to Know
Landslide
Edge of Seventeen
Rock N Roll

There was a curfew, which Stevie mentioned, so she did seem a little rushed, especially getting off to a late start. Her voice also seemed a little hoarse at first, but it got better as it went. The humidity was intense yesterday, and Stevie's hair showed it. It was a "WHOLE LOTTA frizz.." sometimes it worked though. When the wind was blowing (Rarely) it looked cool, she had that messy wind blown look, a la Part I. of The Dance video.

Stand Back was a great opener for this show, because of the upbeat atmosphere. She did the high kick and all, and the "ooooh lala you could be standing in A line!!!" and all..Everyone was dancing to this one. It was really cool seeing this HUGE arena packed all dancing while Stevie sang. I must say though I missed the screens during Stand Back. It provides cool lighting, and makes her show seem much more "larger than life" if that makes sense.


During Rhiannon, her voice was rough in the beginning during the piano intro (I found the piano intro a little odd for this crowd, considering every other set before Stevie's was all rock and guitars, not even one slow song from anyone)..the crowd seemed like they didn't know what to do during this..(some went to the bathroom, but rushed back when the guitars kicked in). She did do the "WELLLLLLLL I DON'T THINK YOU DO!" in her fierce and mean way she did it on the Gold Dust Tour (Much of the Crystal Visions tour she did it a little different, and not as strong)---so I was glad to see that back..
Annnnnd in the end of Rhiannon, surprisingly she did the high notes on "Willl you take me with you to the skyyyyyy..dream on..you cant leave.." etc etc..I was very surprised to hear her do a couple of those lines in a higher Stevie of the old days register.


I didn't realize till halfway through the set that Brett Tuggle was back on keyboards. Always enjoy having him back.
She didn't talk as much, because there wasn't enough time..she did talk a little bit before "Dreams" saying it was written along time ago in Slystone's Studio in LA. When she said "and it's called Dreams" the crowd erupted. This was a big sing along for the crowd. People twirling in the audience and slow dancing...lots of pot floating around of course.

She ran off the stage after Rhiannon, and I wondered why she was changing again...She came back with her Rhiannon dress on, but with a sparkly top. Turns out, as she explained, she got confused because of the time constraints/shortened set and wasn't supposed to change yet. She said everyone was like yelling "go back why are you back here?!?!?" but she changed anyway since she was back there..


Then after "Dreams" she said "ok now we're at the part we're supposed to be at" and ran off stage again. She was getting her Gold Dust shawl on...GDW was another crowd favorite, although I've heard better versions. The "Scream/wail" wasn't very intense during this one..

People were really into "I Need to Know," and so was Stevie..She was rocking out, lots of fun. Perfect for this JACK Fm show..She did a very brief intro to "Landslide" and the crowd of course loved it. Lighters and cell phones in air, everyone seemed to be singing along. I missed the screens again during this one...

I was disappointed when she ran off stage after Landslide and the drum solo began. I knew that meant no "How Still My Love." That has been one of my favorites from this tour. After Lenny's solo, Jimmy started his, and lighting crew messed up and the spotlight was still on Lenny, and Jimmy wasn't to be seen, but was playing. Lenny was PISSED. He was yelling and throwing his hands in the air and pointing at Jimmy, finally the lighting ppl got the clue and put a spotlight on Jimmy also. Lenny just shook his head in disgust after that, was a little funny.

Edge of Seventeen was great...Stevie did an AMAZING "scream." One of the best I've seen. But again the lighting people had it wrong and didn't do the flashing lights on her like they normally do during the screen, it was just kind of dark during it. There was no "Edge Walk" because of the stage setup, but Stevie danced in the end and did go to each part of the stage to wave and blow kisses. People seemed to like that..

Rock N Roll was a blast, she came out and did her usual high kick at Waddy..and really was in great form. No "OWWW!!!" at the end last night though. She complimented JACK FM and told us to "go request music!!" and they left. I wasn't ready for it to be over. No band intros either tonight...

Overall, aside from the technical glitches, it was an amazing show. Aside from Stevie of course, the Pretenders were my second favorite. Chrissie Hynde gave 3 shout outs to Stevie during her set. During one song changed the lyric to "LIKE STEVIE NICKS!" which drew a roar from the crowd, and on another while playing tambourine she went to the mic and said "Stevie Nicks" and twirled. That was cute. Then towards the end of her set, she complimented all the other bands..And said "if any of you want to roll me a joint, I'll be in the lawn with you guys watching Stevie Nicks during her set!"

Jana was beside the stage through the first 3 acts dancing and watching, then came out into the audience with her boyfriend during the Pretenders. She kept taking pictures of them with her camera phone. She had to move though when some lady let her know she was in her seat. Jana seemed to LOVE the Pretenders, and was doing lots of dancing. Her boyfriend and her go together well. He waved at her a lot during Stevie's set.

Thanks for the review, Carol! :woohoo:

Great review, Chris. I wonder if her asthma is acting up again and causing the hoarseness.

Given how much Stevie name-dropping Chrissie did that night, the two must get along fabulously. :woohoo:

Why the barriers? :shrug: Don't know. I found out something interesting though talking with stage security-most were unpaid Marines from Camp Pendleton. The kid in front of us was really nice and even tried to give Stevie the flowers that I had brought but the paid security guy told him not to.

SNLB, who was with me, said that last year, there were no barricades during the video of Cheap Trick that she saw on the net-whether that was so for the whole show I don't know. It was a bummer to say the least. We were hoping that they would take the fencing down before Stevie's set but that didn't happen. I got to shake her hand and touch her boot at Soboba so I'm good for another year but would have liked to have gotten a second helping at Jacks show. This was the first time that I had been to Verizon in several years and I just thought it was par for the course. Interesting to learn it is not.

Carolc

Interesting that they were Marines. Now that I think of it, it should have been obvious by looking at them.. I didn't understand the barrier either.

They must...I was thinking maybe the humidity was doing it to her voice? But who knows..

Rockin' good nostalgia at Jack's Second Show

OCRegister
Granted, both Top and Fleetwood Mac's gypsy woman made wise use of their time. Stevie stopped at all the obvious signposts: "Stand Back" to open, "Edge of Seventeen" near the end, plenty of Mac in the middle, though in her quest to set her versions apart from the originals, she needlessly elongates and overplays "Rhiannon," "Dreams" and "Gold Dust Woman."


Pretenders and Stray Cats stand out at Jack FM concert
dailybulletin.com

Stevie Nicks went on until shortly before 10 p.m. She seemed agitated about the amphitheatre's curfew and that her set would be cut short. After one song, she went backstage for a costume change and realized it was at the wrong time (at least Nicks was honest in admitting this to the crowd).

Little had changed from recent solo tours. Overwrought synthesizer and electronic drums signaled "Stand Back." The nine-piece band tended to overwhelm Nicks' voice (a middling sound mix didn't help). Clad in flowing black chiffon dress, the Fleetwood Mac chanteuse sashayed across the stage. "If Anyone Falls" suffered from dated '80s production and shouty vocals.

Instead of relying on her other solo hits, Nicks concentrated on Mac faves and all worked well. A soft piano instrumental preceded "Rhiannon," "Dreams" was lush and smooth and "Gold Dust Woman" had more of dramatic flair. Nicks, wearing her trademark shawls, twirled and sang into a microphone stand draped in beads.

Tom Petty rocker "I Need to Know" was dashed off, then Nick said, "this song is about compromise." The acoustic-based version of the Mac's "Landslide" had some guys singing along with their girlfriends. A percussion heavy "Edge of 17" closed the main set.

Few more pics

The Daily Bulletin review was overly critical if you ask me. It was a charity :angel:event for corn sakes-give the girl a break!

CarolC

Chris, thanks for the detailed review. MacMan, thanks for the pics!!