Author Topic: Jewel & Melissa Etheridge Tour - Summer 2024 (Read 3894 times)

Jessica · « **Reply #20 on:** July 22, 2024, 10:40:59 AM »

Here's one of those videos where they chop it into little bits and make a 20 min video of the whole show ... I don't like this trend, but it's better than nothing...

Jessica · « **Reply #21 on:** July 22, 2024, 10:44:33 AM »

Quote from: Haynaynay89 on July 22, 2024, 10:36:31 AM

Not Jewel playing the chords to she cries on you were meant for me!! It sounded dark and moody..loved it!

Kinda close! Except She Cries does that walk down on the lowest string and this one does it on the 2nd to lowest string. Different bass note, but otherwise, the same!

I love that song

Jessica · « **Reply #22 on:** July 22, 2024, 11:13:34 AM »

Oof... https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/07/22/review-two-music-icons-take-the-same-stage-with-vastly-different-results/

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Melissa Etheridge and Jewel came across as nearly polar opposites during their co-headlining show on Sunday (July 21) at the lovely Mountain Winery in Saratoga.

And, no, that has nothing to do with Jewel being from Alaska.

Etheridge was focused, on point and utterly professional during her crowd-pleasing set.

Jewel, on the other hand, was scattered, defiantly unorganized and acting like it was her first time ever onstage during her crowd-perplexing set.
It was weird. Jewel's set bordered on being aggressively un-fan friendly, something that the singer seemed to realize as she (somewhat) joked about how the reviews of the show might read.

"I can't wait to see the newspapers" 'Jewel mercilessly heckles her own audience,'" she predicted.

The heckling - even though it did consist of a double middle-finger salute to one person who yelled out a request for Free Bird actually wasn't so merciless. What was far worse was the fact that this show could've - and should've - been so much better.

Jewel has got the songs and, wow, does she ever have the voice. Yet, she continually sabotaged the show as she spent what felt like more than half of her time amusing herself, and pretty much nobody else, with stage banter and discussion on her apparent favorite topic: Jewel

Following an opening segment where Jewel performed with a four-piece backing band, the folk-pop star grabbed her trusty acoustic and opened up the floor for requests. The problem was she didn't know most of the songs that were being yelled out even though (Free Bird aside) they do indeed hail from her own catalog.

"I have thousands of songs," Jewel confessed. "And I know like 12 of them."

Admitting that she didn't really have a plan for her set, and joking (again) that she was possibly accomplishing the unlikely feat of disappointing every single person in the crowd, Jewel proved that she at least knows the words and chords to the fan favorites Near You Always and You Were Meant for Me.

Yet, it was a case too little, too late, as those well-sung signature tunes from the1995 blockbuster debut Pieces of You only seemed to drive home how good this show could've been. Yes, she complained that she was battling a bit of laryngitis, which she linked to a pre-tour bout with COVID, but her voice wasn't what failed her on this night. The culprit was she didn't have a game plan at all and that led to a show that felt mismanaged pretty much from start to finish.

Thankfully, Etheridge would follow follow Jewel with a top-notch set that would salvage the evening for fans.

The crowd ? which Jewel had chastised toward the end of her set for its lackluster response would immediately change its tune as Etheridge entered the stage and kicked off her set in powerful fashion with Must Be Crazy for Me from 1992?s Never Enough.

"We are going to play all the songs tonight," the Grammy-winning Kansas native said. "Take you down Memory Lane."

Backed by a three-piece band, Etheridge sounded great ? both on the microphone and on guitar as she worked through the poignant I Want to Come Over (from 1995?s ?Your Little Secret?), before taking the time to point out that her daughter was in the audience.
"I want to tell her congratulations because she is engaged," she said. "I wanted to play her a love song. But then I realized that I don?t have any."

Making due with what she's got, however, Etheridge would dedicate an endearing version of You Can Sleep While I Drive a track from 1989's Brave and Crazy that was latter covered successfully by country star Trisha Yearwood to her daughter.

The singer also showcased her latest live album, I'm Not Broken (Live From Topeka Correctional Facility), performing a really moving rendition of A Burning Woman. The project, which Etheridge explained was inspired by Johnny Cash's work performing for prisoners in her hometown of Leavenworth, also includes a docuseries Melissa Etheridge: I'm Not Broken currently airing on Paramount+.

The star closed up her main set in utterly fan-friendly fashion, delivering three of her biggest tunes Come to My Window, Bring Me Some Water and I'm The Only One, leaving the crowd wanting more and illustrating the good that can come from having a carefully executed game plan.

Haynaynay89 · « **Reply #23 on:** July 22, 2024, 11:35:42 AM »

That was pretty harsh. Although I can see where this reviewer might be coming from that the show could possibly be more polished, but the banter is something I love about her and with having laryngitis it may be hard that she had a set list she was going to do but hasn?t really been able to..she hasn?t sang more more tears! That one is vocally challenging. Anyway- boo boo he didn?t like the show. I?m seeing her on Friday!

Haynaynay89 · « **Reply #24 on:** July 22, 2024, 11:38:39 AM »

I don?t know chords or anything at all but I have a weird memory of sounds! Love that song too! Deep cut ❤️

Jessica · « **Reply #25 on:** July 22, 2024, 11:40:28 AM »

Quote from: Haynaynay89 on July 22, 2024, 11:35:42 AM

I'm seeing her on Friday!

How exciting!

Jessica · « **Reply #26 on:** July 23, 2024, 09:39:42 AM »

Beautiful video of Almost from the Hard Rock show in Wheatland/Sacramento:

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Haynaynay89 · « **Reply #27 on:** July 23, 2024, 04:08:39 PM »

NWW from Saratoga

Haynaynay89 · « **Reply #28 on:** July 23, 2024, 04:11:37 PM »

Grateful from Saratoga

Jessica · « **Reply #29 on:** July 23, 2024, 04:28:36 PM »

Same fella got Hate Hate as well:

Haynaynay89 · « **Reply #30 on:** July 23, 2024, 04:48:47 PM »

He commented that he has more videos uploading! So maybe we will get some more! It?s about time too! I was getting angry that there were any videos popping up on YouTube! There was so many from the 22? tour.

Haynaynay89 · « **Reply #31 on:** July 23, 2024, 05:07:02 PM »

Near you always on electric! That?s different!

Jessica · « **Reply #32 on:** July 24, 2024, 06:43:04 AM »

Intuition:

Quote from: Haynaynay89 on July 23, 2024, 04:48:47 PM

He commented that he has more videos uploading! So maybe we will get some more! It?s about time too! I was getting angry that there were any videos popping up on YouTube! There was so many from the 22? tour.

And he certainly has delivered! Might have enough here from the Saratoga show to make a proper bootleg!

Intuition:

You Were Meant For Me:

Foolish Games:

Jessica · « **Reply #33 on:** July 24, 2024, 01:03:40 PM »

Picture from San Diego

Jessica · « **Reply #34 on:** July 24, 2024, 01:51:31 PM »

Hate Hate from San Diego:

Haynaynay89 · « **Reply #35 on:** July 24, 2024, 07:12:12 PM »

The hate hate song started as a cool rap sounding vibe when it debuted at the POY 25th concert

Jessica · « **Reply #36 on:** July 25, 2024, 07:11:20 AM »

I don't care for that song and I'm looking forward to it being just a memory.

I went to the Denver Red Rocks show when she was opening for Train and she asked the audience if they wanted to "hear me get canced!?!?" or yodeling and the crowd thankfully picked yodeling.

Good crowd