Monday, June 27, 2005
Roberta Rive
Went to the Roberta flack concert on Saturday. If you don't know who that is she's the "Killing Me Softly" lady. No not that one, that's Lauren Hill, she covered Roberta's original from the 70's. This isn't a concert I would normally attend but my wife loves the woman and unfortunately for me Ms. Flack decided to come to Japan around our anniversary so I got talked into going. It wasn't that bad. Our seats were conveniently right next to the bar and they conveniently had Asahi Black on tap so I conveniently got drunk. I think it was after about the sixth glass that I started screaming "Play some Black Sabbath!!". Maybe she didn't hear me, or maybe she doesn't know any Sabbath, but my requests went unheeded. This doesn't put her high up on my list. I pretty much judge a band by their ability to play whatever song I scream out at the moment. Ok ok, I didn't really yell that. But I wanted to. Stupid inhibitions!!
I talked to one of Roberta's roadies after the show and asked if we could meet the lady. He said she had already gone back to the hotel but that she had another show that night and we could probably catch her in the lobby on her way back to the club. I shouldn't have translated this to my wife because we spent the next hour sitting in the Hilton lobby waiting for Roberta to come out. My wife was like a kid in the back seat on a vacation. "Do you think she'll come out soon? Do you think we'll see her? Do you think she'll talk to us? Cherokee? Cherokee? Are you listening?"
She finally came out and we got to talk to her. My wife was going fucking nuts. I didn't know she could speak that much English. The coolest thing Ms. Flack said was after I told her I was from near Detroit that she was "really rooting for the Pistons". That makes her cool in my book. The rest of the night my wife kept smelling her hand going, "It smells like Roberta flack."
Song of the Day: Roberta Flack- "Oasis"
I talked to one of Roberta's roadies after the show and asked if we could meet the lady. He said she had already gone back to the hotel but that she had another show that night and we could probably catch her in the lobby on her way back to the club. I shouldn't have translated this to my wife because we spent the next hour sitting in the Hilton lobby waiting for Roberta to come out. My wife was like a kid in the back seat on a vacation. "Do you think she'll come out soon? Do you think we'll see her? Do you think she'll talk to us? Cherokee? Cherokee? Are you listening?"
She finally came out and we got to talk to her. My wife was going fucking nuts. I didn't know she could speak that much English. The coolest thing Ms. Flack said was after I told her I was from near Detroit that she was "really rooting for the Pistons". That makes her cool in my book. The rest of the night my wife kept smelling her hand going, "It smells like Roberta flack."
Song of the Day: Roberta Flack- "Oasis"
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