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Re:Wells Street review by Kylie Wilkerson :)
Ahhh yes,I was definetly waiting for Kylie to post and review her first
concert and you did a wonderful job!!!!(extra exclamation points just for
you cause I know you like em!!!!!!!!....hehehehe!!) ;)
Anyway I have a few thoughts on the show as well.First one being it's very
tough on musicians doing these festival type shows being that the bands are
kind of rushed on and off with very little setup time and NO
soundcheck.I forgot how important a sound check is (VERY !!!)The first 4
songs were basically THE soundcheck and believe me the sound guy could
barely get a handle on our trio.One thing about it is the musicians onstage
do not know what it sounds like "in the house" because
they only here they're own monitors so they were oblivious to the fact that
during these 4 songs Karin was barely audible.I left Kylie and her sister at
the front to move back so I could hear or not hear as the case
was.Then in the middle of "Jesus" all of the front lights on stage go
out(Thats about 10 par cans for all of you who know out there)Leaving our
trio performing on stage IN THE DARK !!!!Lucky those parking lot emrgency
lights were on.By this time I was standing in the back and the movie "Spinal
Tap" came to mind. I felt bad for our guys but they played through it like
troopers(good for you guys!!!)Jack turns to the monitor soundman to ask for
a little more guitar in his monitor but alas
the monitor guy is nowhere to be found cause he's trying to fix the
lights!!...LOL Anyway by the time "Little Blue River" started everything was
"dialed in"(lights and sound)and things started to jell.
Karin said they just finished recording a cover song for some compilation CD
coming out and they did the song "Fever" you know the one
"you give me fever......" and the way she sang it I can guarantee you
was absolutely AWESOME!!! Bottom line: She gave me fever!!!"Fever all
through the night".There was a point in the show where I was sitting on
lawn chair only about 10 rows back off to the left and a girl walks up to me
and says "Who is this ?? How come nobody's dancing or moving ??
I said "That's Over The Rhine and mostly we all just always stand there
and watch mesmerised. But they don't play danceable music anyway, they play
music to sway to.I don't know what the setlist said but Kylie I can assure
you,you didn't miss "The world can wait" or "The Seahorse"
they were not played."Latter Days" was one of the more interesting
experiments of the evening.Linford chose to play it on guitar instead of
piano for some reason and let me tell you it was quite "avante-guard"
is that the right word? Actually I have to frank as I always am on here
it was, how can I put it nicely? BRUTAL.But thats ok Linford you come to
Chicago 6 times a year you can experiment all you want!My highlight of the
evening as always was standing 4 feet from Karin while she sat at the piano
playing "Give me strength".(I'm still in a trance Michael)Overall the night
was very enjoyable hangin out with the listees and just seeing the smile on
Kylie's face when they took the stage was priceless.Why I didn't stick
around after the show I'll never know,I'm bummed now.Sometimes I feel funny
about that sort of thing at my age,but
someday I will get the courage to walk up and say thankyou for the music and
for coming to Chicago so often.But if you guys ARE reading this, Thankyou
John (JB)
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