Sarah bliss

[john@tessi.com (John Zimmer)]

Well, I'm still pretty blissed out after seeing Sarah M. here in Portland
last night.  The opening band, Balloon, weren't quite to my taste but not 
terrible either.  I really liked the effect of lighting the candles on the 
darkened stage just prior to the band walking out, set the mood perfectly.  
Sarah filed out last, and they launched into "Drawn to the Rhythm".  Over the 
course of the evening they hit just about all of _Solace_, as well as "Out 
of the Shadows" ("the first song I ever wrote"), "Vox" (encore, I think), 
and the "nasty samples" version of "Steaming", great fun. :)  Oh yeah, we 
also heard the new song "Elsewhere", which has been mentioned here before.

Unfortunately, we didn't get to meet her after the show, but considering 
the fact that we were front row center and I was only 8 - 10 feet away from 
her during most of the performance, I kinda felt we'd already met!  (I hope 
we can do as well for the Tori show. ;)

Also got to meet up with fellow lovehound and brand-new Portland transplant 
Michael Bowman, and we're both trying to make sure we get to Tori's second 
Oregon show in Eugene.

A good time was definitely had by all.
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John Zimmer                                    john@tessi.com

        "The happy phantom has no right to bitch."
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