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Etta James Rocks San Francisco
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Etta James rocked the house last night at San Francisco's famed Filmore Auditorium.
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Her 70th birthday is Jan.25th 2008 {Congratulations Etta!
don't lose any more weight, there'll be Ø left of you

She is no stranger to this city!
I was lucky enough to see her here 30 years ago
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I saw her sharing the stage with Smokey Robinson and Little Anthony in 1965 at a venue in Oakland.
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Last night's crowd was clapping and stamping their feet as she made her way to the center of the stage.
She is still able to do her signature song, "At Last" {it takes a lot to muster all those emotions.
She got the audience into a "sing-a-long" of Janis Joplin's Piece of My Heart.
I saw Janis do that song and it made me sad.
Like Judy Garland's "Over the Rainbow", quote Liza Minnelli: "that song's been done."

The smell of weed was wafting through the room Smile
The dance floor seemed to come alive and the sound could be felt through one's feet.
I wanted to beat the sound person about the head for his/her's lack of attention to the sound level!
The amplifiers were turned up so loud it caused a very distracting rumbling noise that vibrated the air like an earthquake!
I want to hear her but I want to be able to hear tomorrow too!

I've seen Pearl Bailey, Lena Horne, Diana Ross and the Supremes
take it from me, Etta James is a must see.
The songs she sung that I will go buy: "Damn Your Ass" and "Sugar On The Floor"

She came on some time after ten p.m. bringing with her a full glass of red wine.
After each song she'd take a sip. By the 10-11th song her glass became empty and I knew that meant the end of the evening.
The band was playing enthusiastically as she left the stage then she stopped and gave a great big hug to the 6 ft. tall speaker.
The house lights came on but the audience yelled and clapped till she came back out [with a 1/2 glass of red wine] and sang two more songs.

I really gotta thank this woman for her dedication.
At 1 o'clock in the morning I got to take my tired ass home to my own bed
while she had to sleep in a bus on the road to another state, another venue.

:toasting: to you Etta James
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#2
Sounds fun!!!:peace: Glad you had a good time. I have not been to a concert in years.
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Hi Annette,

Thanks for the thread. Seems like you had a nice evening. Sorry about the sound thingy.. hope your ear drums have come back to normalcy. It was a nice read [Smile]
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npalmtree Wrote:Sounds fun!!!:peace: Glad you had a good time. I have not been to a concert in years.

Hi Npalmtree! Great to see u!
c'mon out to s.f. and go to the Filmore!
I was surprised it is still there!
I didn't actually see anyone light anything
I was scared to but I could see the smoke and smell it,
it weren't tobacco :bong:
I admit, standing up for 3-4 hours wasn't without pain.

It'd been years for me too.
The last time I was at the Filmore, Creedence Clearwater was singing their new song, Suzie-Q

The place I went to in 2001 to see Patti Labelle is an outdoor venue in Concord with seats and no dancing.

the dog is sick again, I have to get to the vet this morning.
He was diagnosed with ecoli about two weeks ago
They only kept him on antibiotics for ten days, now he is sick again!
Blood in his stool this time.

Purush_79 Wrote:Hi Annette,

Thanks for the thread. Seems like you had a nice evening. Sorry about the sound thingy.. hope your ear drums have come back to normalcy. It was a nice read Smile

Purush! are you still in the USA? where are you? what are you doing?
I wish I'd taken frank's camera, gotten some pictures.
She sang a song called "Damn your Ass" { I"d buy that one!
'you look so good, I want you, damn your ass!"
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#5
wish i was there, i love etta
i wish ill see some of the legends (etta , dylan, baez, bbking...) before they die

here in tel aviv i smell hash in every concert , smoke in most of them
the police has too much stuff to deal with than to focus on this stupid laws...

in my birthday i was standing out side of the bar we were in because we also have now the law that forbids smoking cigs inside, but i was rolling joints as if there was no tomorrow...

i wish u had ur camera with u and took photos from etta's concert





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northfork Wrote:wish i was there, i love etta
I wish you were too!
northfork Wrote:i wish ill see some of the legends (etta , dylan, baez, bbking...) before they die
what can we do about that?
at least you are close enough to get to see Amy Winehouse Confusedinging:
northfork Wrote:here in tel aviv i smell hash in every concert , smoke in most of them
the police has too much stuff to deal with than to focus on this stupid laws...
lucky you! I was too paranoid to fire up.
northfork Wrote:in my birthday i was standing out side of the bar we were in because we also have now the law that forbids smoking cigs inside,
doesn't that suck? it seems unconstitutional!
northfork Wrote:but i was rolling joints as if there was no tomorrow...
we should have a private club,memebrship only, so we can smoke and what ever
northfork Wrote:i wish u had ur camera with u and took photos from etta's concert
this time I am hoping to bring frank's camera Smile
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Annette Wrote:what can we do about that?
at least you are close enough to get to see Amy Winehouse Confusedinging:
what??!!! i thought she is from the us??? where is she from?


yeah next time get the camera, id love to see some pics!
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#8
Amy is in England.

I'll try to use the camera but they may not allow it at this venue.
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#9
Etta James' concert for tomorrow is cancelled!
they say it will be held in late Sept. {what a bummer! :grr:
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#10
That sucks. I know you were looking forward to that. Are you still gonna go in September then?
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Frankybonz Wrote:That sucks. I know you were looking forward to that. Are you still gonna go in September then?

if etta james is there we'll be there
we have two extra tickets ...
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