CHICAGO: Anyone go see Aretha last night?

[Discogoddess]

Yall: Jotex and I went to see the Queen of Soul @ Ravinia last night and we enjoyed ourselves. However, I was REALLY puzzled by Re Re's decision NOT to do many, many of her all-time jams, like:

Who's Zooming Who
Rock Steady
Do Right Woman
Dr. Feelgood
Giving Him Something He Can Feel
Rose in Spanish Harlem
Ain't No Way
Jump to It (Well, I didn't really expect her to do that one, but it would have been nice)
Freeway of Love

She was in a real downtempo groove and you could tell she wasn't trying to use her full voice. I love her still, but I don't think we got what we came for...any thoughts?

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[JMJ]

At the risk of being cruel, I will reserve comment.......JMJ ;)

[Discogoddess]

Originally posted by JMJ:
At the risk of being cruel, I will reserve comment.......JMJ ;) Nah man, speak your mind...I'll even feign interest in your thoughts. ;)

[ July 10, 2003, 09:26 AM: Message edited by: Discogoddess ]

[JMJ]

Originally posted by Discogoddess:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by JMJ:
At the risk of being cruel, I will reserve comment.......JMJ ;) Nah man, speak your mind...I'll even feign interest in your thoughts. ;) </font>[/QUOTE]Nice edit.....JMJ

[Discogoddess]

For those with ADD (JMJ), I repeat....care to comment on the TOPIC AT HAND?

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[JMJ]

Originally posted by Discogoddess:
For those with ADD (JMJ), I repeat....care to comment on the TOPIC AT HAND?

smile.gif That was a personal attack. You should be banned. What did you say again?.....JMJ AR15firing.gif

[manfred]

i was there last night. :D she was great. hail.gif crowd, not surprisingly, was very ravinian. i was hoping for an encore, but the crowd and band just started packin' up. graemlins/conf44.gif

i must say, the queen better take better care of herself!

[JMJ]

Did she sing "Burning down The House"?? I hear she does an excellent cover version.....JMJ biggrinangel.gif

[Discogoddess]

Originally posted by JMJ:
Did she sing "Burning down The House"?? I hear she does an excellent cover version.....JMJ biggrinangel.gif You're so wrong for that!

[Alanda Marquette from DiscoLadyLand]

For minute I thought I missed visits and why didn't anyone tell me that I would have a gathering. Then I remembered that I was only named after Aretha Franklin not as famous :D

Okay I am being silly today. But I thought Ravinia was about being downtempo and not rocking graemlins/conf44.gif I remember Ravinia to headline a lot of jazz and classical musicians.

What did she sing? How was she?

[Discogoddess]

Originally posted by DiscoLady:
For minute I thought I missed visits and why didn't anyone tell me that I would have a gathering. Then I remembered that I was only named after Aretha Franklin not as famous :D

Okay I am being silly today. But I thought Ravinia was about being downtempo and not rocking graemlins/conf44.gif I remember Ravinia to headline a lot of jazz and classical musicians.

What did she sing? How was she? I didn't realize your name was Aretha, Ms. Girl! Next time I'll specify which one I'm talking about in my thread title... ;)

Well, it's true that a lot of jazz (really dug McCoy Tyner and Dee Bridgewater there) and classical musicians play Ravinia, but I have enjoyed some hot sets by George Benson, Tito Nieves (papi chulo!!!!) and Celia Cruz ( hail.gif )@ Ravinia, so I expected Re Re to be cooking as well. From what I remember, she sang "Respect" and "Think"....the other stuff I either can't remember or didn't recognize. I thought she was holding back a bit on the vocals, but she sounded good. A bit raspy, but sweet and soulful as always.

[ July 10, 2003, 10:45 AM: Message edited by: Discogoddess ]

[JMJ]

She should have sung "Jump To It" as the encore. She would have brought down the house. And the stage. Show's over. Goodnight everybody.....JMJ ;)