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JC Vegas Review
Okay. Inside is my review, such that it were, of JC in Vegas last night. It's not gonna be terribly detailed, because.. well, given that it was my first full length sparkly concert of any kind, it got kinda sensory overload after a bit and everything has now kinda all swished into one melty pot of JC-ness-osity. I mean, I can clearly remember bits and pieces of what he did that I liked, but... seriously... No idea when in the HELL they were in the show. So, it's gonna be fairly general in the song by song, and a couple of other comments afterwards. But hey, details aren't quite as important as they were when I saw the mini-show in September, so it's all good.
But enough of my rambling. Onto the good stuff.
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livehead16 already laid out her own report here, so I'm gonna try not to be OVERLY redundant re: the Camera Nazis and whatnot, but.. we'll see what pops out.
I'm gonna start before I even left home. Because it's my prerogative to do so and even though this paragraph has nothing to do with JC, I want it captured for posterity. I was gonna leave at 4:30-ish because reservations were at 5:30, I live a good haul away, and Vegas traffic is unpredictable. Of course I made it way early, but that's irrelevant. Before I headed out the door, I plopped down to watch as much of the Cubs game as I could. Cuz the game started at 4. So, hey. I left at the end of the bottom of the first, and the Cubs were up 8-0. I had a feeling this boded well for the rest of the evening. ;)
So anyway. Yes. We showed up to eat. After much deliberation (seriously.. they were having a CONFERENCE or something to decide what table they were gonna throw us at..) they stick us at the table closest to the door to the theater, and... yeah. Soundcheck goodness for dinner music. Ain't NOT gonna complain about that.
At any rate, we pass the line, yay for HoB, we get lined up in the second row behind the barrier. Somehow between us lining up and the show actually STARTING, a mystical other row grows between the first row and us. This is rather odd, but.... I won't complain, cuz it really didn't turn out badly.
And then we stand. For a long time. Yay standing. Or not yay standing. Bah.
Samantha Ronson. Not overly shabby. I, like Lara, was actually rather amused by the trucker hat. And I also agree that she really needs to figure out how to engage the audience more because... she wasn't. Her band members were, though! :b But musically... not too shabby.
Then she finishes. And she and the band members start dismantling all the equipment. We watch this for about twenty minutes before they finally decide to close the curtains. *shrug* Go figure.
And then we stand. For quite a while. Again. Yay standing. Or not yay standing. Oh. I'm repeating myself. I move on. To....
JAAAAAAAAYCEEEEEEEEEE.
And here's where we get sketchy. Best I'm gonna be able to do is a few random comments from the little my poor scattered brain can remember in the way of details.
All Day Long: Um.... Yum. Very yum. Yes. Yum. I think that covers it.
She Got Me: Very fun song. I enjoyed the choreography. I think. Like I said. Big Freaking JC Stew Brain. I was rather amused by the crowd, though. As there were numerous "woop woop woop!"s where they actually weren't in the original song. But hey, it's allllll good.
If You Were My Girl: JC rocking out is one of the most fun things I think I'll ever see in my life. Actually, just apply that comment to everything I saw. You can so tell he's enjoying the hell out of performing, and it's rather infectious.
One Night Stand: PIMP COAT. AhaHAHahAHAHhahAhahah. I heart him so. Pictures really don't do it justice, in my opinion.
Build My World: Just as intense as I remember it from the last time I saw him do it. He can really bring a ballad home. Yay, man. I do rather clearly remember one thought I had during this one. He's all singing.. 'Abandon fear and consequence of heartbreak..' Y'know, that whole part, and I'm all... *blank stare* Yes, JC. Whatever you say, JC. I will do your bidding. Or, well, something along that line. Maybe without the do your bidding part. Not that it's not true. ;) Although I do have ONE slight beef with this song! If he had ANY IDEA how long it took me to finally not screw up when singing along to the album when on the first go 'round, it's "I'll be the lonely one until I find SOMEONE" instead of "THE one"... Because it was vice-versa on the leak.. But then JUST when I get all proud of myself for finally getting it right, he just goes and switches it back live. Boo JC. But I'll forgive you. Because you're pretty and are wearing no sleeves.
Blowin' Me Up: Fun song always, fun song forever. At the end, he took off his band jacket, and tried to drop kick it off the stage. It didn't make it. It got.. like... halfway there. So Lonnie came out and fetched it. I was amused.
Come To Me: Those glow in the dark masks are rather creepy. The song, on the other hand, is cool.
Let's Go Crazy: Oh, so so so so so so fun. Except that after he came out on stage, his mike didn't work for the first couple lines. I was a bit miffed about that. But still fun! Yay JC!
Dear Goodbye: *whimper* Want to cuddle him and feed him soup and oyster crackers.
TGIO Bridge: Wheeeeeeeeeeeee. Dude was FLAILING LIKE HELL during this. With veins popping out and everything, and it's surprising he didn't have an embolism. But good.
Everything You Want: Fun song. Yay fun. Yay JC. Remember nothing specific.
Shake It: Is this the one with the weirdo glow in the dark tinkertoy expando-balls? If it is, then good, if it's not, I'm gonna pretend it is. {Edit: Of course not! It was Come To Me. Blah. Oh well.) Those things are fucking WEIRD. I want one.
Right Here: Adore this song. Very happy to hear it live. And he did maaahvelously.
Some Girls: I didn't get to pay total attention to this song, as this is the one where a dude muscled himself to the front of the crowd right near us(For the second time in the show, he'd left and then decided to come BACK again), and a girl in front of Lara pointed him out to one of JC's security dudes, who got the Camera Nazi to come and BODILY HAUL his ass out of the venue. Which was fun, and offered Lara another picture opportunity. But it was fun. And stuff. Go JC!!
We cheered, made our way out of the venue trying to adjust to rubber legs and no hearing, met up with Manfan, chatted for a bit, and went home (after I wandered around half the parking garage finding my car.). Yay.
Random Points That Don't Really Belong To Any One Song:
One girl in the middle of the crowd was holding up a freakin' JC marionette (the big one) still in the box.. for like the entire show. That amused me somewhat.
Lara overheard some girl in front of us chattering about how she got to go to the Meet 'n' Greet.... And she DIDN'T EVEN KNOW ANY OF JC'S SONGS. There is no justice in the world, I tell you.
I got eye contact quite a few times. (No entire lines sung to me as far as I can remember, unlike Miz Lara, but then, when it happened, I wasn't thinking about the SONG, I was just thinking... eyes!!) My theory as to why this happened is cuz... Third row lets him look down and kinda out, so, hey, cool... and I wear glasses, glasses reflect light, light provides a target! Woot!
On the way out of the theater, we passed by none other than Tim Miller. Who was getting denied at the bar because they couldn't serve with under 21-year olds in the vicinity on their way out. It was rather amusing.
Having absolutely no memory of where you parked is indeed somewhat embarrassing.
My final verdict on the hair.. I don't really loathe it as much as I did when I saw the first pictures. I'm kinda more to the ambivalent point. It's not my favorite hair he ever had... but it does look pretty nice when sweaty. ;)
Aaaaaaaaaand that's the end! Wee-ha!
But enough of my rambling. Onto the good stuff.
livehead16 already laid out her own report here, so I'm gonna try not to be OVERLY redundant re: the Camera Nazis and whatnot, but.. we'll see what pops out.I'm gonna start before I even left home. Because it's my prerogative to do so and even though this paragraph has nothing to do with JC, I want it captured for posterity. I was gonna leave at 4:30-ish because reservations were at 5:30, I live a good haul away, and Vegas traffic is unpredictable. Of course I made it way early, but that's irrelevant. Before I headed out the door, I plopped down to watch as much of the Cubs game as I could. Cuz the game started at 4. So, hey. I left at the end of the bottom of the first, and the Cubs were up 8-0. I had a feeling this boded well for the rest of the evening. ;)
So anyway. Yes. We showed up to eat. After much deliberation (seriously.. they were having a CONFERENCE or something to decide what table they were gonna throw us at..) they stick us at the table closest to the door to the theater, and... yeah. Soundcheck goodness for dinner music. Ain't NOT gonna complain about that.
At any rate, we pass the line, yay for HoB, we get lined up in the second row behind the barrier. Somehow between us lining up and the show actually STARTING, a mystical other row grows between the first row and us. This is rather odd, but.... I won't complain, cuz it really didn't turn out badly.
And then we stand. For a long time. Yay standing. Or not yay standing. Bah.
Samantha Ronson. Not overly shabby. I, like Lara, was actually rather amused by the trucker hat. And I also agree that she really needs to figure out how to engage the audience more because... she wasn't. Her band members were, though! :b But musically... not too shabby.
Then she finishes. And she and the band members start dismantling all the equipment. We watch this for about twenty minutes before they finally decide to close the curtains. *shrug* Go figure.
And then we stand. For quite a while. Again. Yay standing. Or not yay standing. Oh. I'm repeating myself. I move on. To....
JAAAAAAAAYCEEEEEEEEEE.
And here's where we get sketchy. Best I'm gonna be able to do is a few random comments from the little my poor scattered brain can remember in the way of details.
All Day Long: Um.... Yum. Very yum. Yes. Yum. I think that covers it.
She Got Me: Very fun song. I enjoyed the choreography. I think. Like I said. Big Freaking JC Stew Brain. I was rather amused by the crowd, though. As there were numerous "woop woop woop!"s where they actually weren't in the original song. But hey, it's allllll good.
If You Were My Girl: JC rocking out is one of the most fun things I think I'll ever see in my life. Actually, just apply that comment to everything I saw. You can so tell he's enjoying the hell out of performing, and it's rather infectious.
One Night Stand: PIMP COAT. AhaHAHahAHAHhahAhahah. I heart him so. Pictures really don't do it justice, in my opinion.
Build My World: Just as intense as I remember it from the last time I saw him do it. He can really bring a ballad home. Yay, man. I do rather clearly remember one thought I had during this one. He's all singing.. 'Abandon fear and consequence of heartbreak..' Y'know, that whole part, and I'm all... *blank stare* Yes, JC. Whatever you say, JC. I will do your bidding. Or, well, something along that line. Maybe without the do your bidding part. Not that it's not true. ;) Although I do have ONE slight beef with this song! If he had ANY IDEA how long it took me to finally not screw up when singing along to the album when on the first go 'round, it's "I'll be the lonely one until I find SOMEONE" instead of "THE one"... Because it was vice-versa on the leak.. But then JUST when I get all proud of myself for finally getting it right, he just goes and switches it back live. Boo JC. But I'll forgive you. Because you're pretty and are wearing no sleeves.
Blowin' Me Up: Fun song always, fun song forever. At the end, he took off his band jacket, and tried to drop kick it off the stage. It didn't make it. It got.. like... halfway there. So Lonnie came out and fetched it. I was amused.
Come To Me: Those glow in the dark masks are rather creepy. The song, on the other hand, is cool.
Let's Go Crazy: Oh, so so so so so so fun. Except that after he came out on stage, his mike didn't work for the first couple lines. I was a bit miffed about that. But still fun! Yay JC!
Dear Goodbye: *whimper* Want to cuddle him and feed him soup and oyster crackers.
TGIO Bridge: Wheeeeeeeeeeeee. Dude was FLAILING LIKE HELL during this. With veins popping out and everything, and it's surprising he didn't have an embolism. But good.
Everything You Want: Fun song. Yay fun. Yay JC. Remember nothing specific.
Shake It: Is this the one with the weirdo glow in the dark tinkertoy expando-balls? If it is, then good, if it's not, I'm gonna pretend it is. {Edit: Of course not! It was Come To Me. Blah. Oh well.) Those things are fucking WEIRD. I want one.
Right Here: Adore this song. Very happy to hear it live. And he did maaahvelously.
Some Girls: I didn't get to pay total attention to this song, as this is the one where a dude muscled himself to the front of the crowd right near us(For the second time in the show, he'd left and then decided to come BACK again), and a girl in front of Lara pointed him out to one of JC's security dudes, who got the Camera Nazi to come and BODILY HAUL his ass out of the venue. Which was fun, and offered Lara another picture opportunity. But it was fun. And stuff. Go JC!!
We cheered, made our way out of the venue trying to adjust to rubber legs and no hearing, met up with Manfan, chatted for a bit, and went home (after I wandered around half the parking garage finding my car.). Yay.
Random Points That Don't Really Belong To Any One Song:
One girl in the middle of the crowd was holding up a freakin' JC marionette (the big one) still in the box.. for like the entire show. That amused me somewhat.
Lara overheard some girl in front of us chattering about how she got to go to the Meet 'n' Greet.... And she DIDN'T EVEN KNOW ANY OF JC'S SONGS. There is no justice in the world, I tell you.
I got eye contact quite a few times. (No entire lines sung to me as far as I can remember, unlike Miz Lara, but then, when it happened, I wasn't thinking about the SONG, I was just thinking... eyes!!) My theory as to why this happened is cuz... Third row lets him look down and kinda out, so, hey, cool... and I wear glasses, glasses reflect light, light provides a target! Woot!
On the way out of the theater, we passed by none other than Tim Miller. Who was getting denied at the bar because they couldn't serve with under 21-year olds in the vicinity on their way out. It was rather amusing.
Having absolutely no memory of where you parked is indeed somewhat embarrassing.
My final verdict on the hair.. I don't really loathe it as much as I did when I saw the first pictures. I'm kinda more to the ambivalent point. It's not my favorite hair he ever had... but it does look pretty nice when sweaty. ;)
Aaaaaaaaaand that's the end! Wee-ha!
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That was 'Come To Me'. I just remember thinking, 'There is a LOT of glow-in-the-dark thingies up there. And, YES, those masks were SUPER creepy! lol.
It's not my favorite hair he ever had... but it does look pretty nice when sweaty. ;)
I was thinking the same thing too. It's so, so, SO sexy when sweaty! lol.
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Ahwell. *slightly edits post*
And mmmmmm sweaty hair.
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Btw, none of the people around me knew ANY of the words. Except the two guys I met. lol.
He needs to come back! AND SOON!!!!
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By myself, I got ADIDAS right.... then for song two I blanked and was like.. fuck it. *look it up*
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ha!! me too!! i was so annoyed with him for not singing that right! LOL.
i totally forgot about tim miller. LOL. he looked so cute, too, with his spiky hair. :-)
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And yes. Good ol' Tim Miller.
But now I'm just inordinately jealous that we didn't get 100 Ways like everyone last night. So unfair! *pouts*
But JC's still okay in my book. I guess. :b