The Louisville Center for the Performing Arts is a beautiful venue. Also, it was VERY crowded. As it turns out, "The Lion King" was also being presented that night.We'd ridden with Coleen (aka, "Mini Van Mama") which was a good thing because Coleen basically "assumes" people will let her "cut in" in traffic. *G* She's a hoot. But she knows how to get things done.
We were trying to hook up with Little Scott (aka, "Baby Boy") before the show, but we didn't see him. Krik and I were at the very front at table "A", along with Lisafromomaha, and JT, whom we just met that night. As we were sitting there, Krik saw someone who resembled Scott (Baby Boy, NOT CSLIV) at the table behind us. So she said to me, "Isn't that Scott?" And I turn around and am staring at this guy, who is staring back, but not waving or even smiling. "Um, I guess it's NOT him." But it certainly could have been his brother! Anyhoo...SHOWTIME! We only got a couple of pics from the show because of the "camera Natzis" who came behind me and said, "No more pictures. And if I see you take any more, I'll have to take your camera away." Yeah, and draw back a bloody stump! Bastards! I complied and turned off the camera. Sheesh.
They opened with "House of the Rising Sun" and El seemed to have gotten into the groove with his crutch. He was using more as a third leg by this time.
Scott: "Thank you very much! It's to be back in Looiville...Loovle.." Why can't he say, "Louisville"? *G* It's cute though. He introduced El as "Tiny Tim". Payback is HELL, Scott! *G*
"Moments of You" Oh Wow! Where Krik and were sitting, we were getting the full advantage of the VP work and George's great bass from the speakers. Yummy! Love how George starts doing that fast clapping here. And Jeff with the "OW!" Humina! *note to self..NEVER write reviews when PMSing*
Scott: "Thank you very much. It's great to be in Kentucky. We've spent a whole week in Kentucky. We're going to have to pay state income tax, I think. We've been to Hopkinsville. We've been to Danville. Hazard. Let me tell you what WE did. Last night we did a show in Hazard which is a lovely..we've never been through coal mining country and that's a beautiful part of the country. It was great. But we got up this morning at *looks at El* What was that?" El: "Well you said 'Hazard' and they all kind of giggled." Scott: "That's the reaction we've been getting all week. It's not a funny place, it's quite nice. We recommend it for those of you natives that have not been there. But we did a show there last night. We got up this morning...well, we left at 5 AM, to drive HERE to do a radio show at 8..something..." Kev: "Wheee...eee!" Scott: "We'll do anything to get on the radio." Kev: "That's right." Scott: "By any way possible. But it's a pretty drive. Boy, that's a HAIRY drive through those mountains." El: "Especially with the fog." Scott: "Yeah. It was tough on them as they SLEPT. We have two cars. What a great operation. Got a sound guy, road manager and five of us. We're like, in and out of there...guerrilla style a cappella."
"Here Comes the Sun"
"Dancin' In the Street" Kev: "Right here in Looville."
El: "Thank you very much. It's fantastic to be back here. I think the last time we were here was in uh..December of 2000. How many of you were here?" *loud cheers* "Thank you. I think before that we were here in 1992 when we did the Lonesome Pine Series. How many of you were here for that?" *more cheers, not as loud* "We're grateful for you guys to have us back and uh, we've had a great time in Kentucky...except in Hopkinsville. Not really BECAUSE of Hopkinsville, but that's where I ripped my calf muscle. So it's not REALLY Hopkinsville's fault, but I think I'm going to blame them anyway. Cause I'd rather not just be because I'm clumsy (or something like that. You know how El gets tickled sometime. We couldn't hear him exactly. *G*) I think the last time we were here, my son Eli had just been born about six months before and now my wife had my second son, Jules about six months ago. We see Kentucky on the calendar and we get busy." (El gets really tickled here.)
"No Doubt At All" (insert a bit of descriptive about the venue. Behind Da Boyz is a wall of instruments. All kinds of things, like banjos, guitars, drums, cymbals, etc.)
Scott: "There's nothing but mouths up here. There's no drum. No drum machine and people don't believe us. One time a lady said to me, she said after the show, 'Well maybe you didn't realize the drum set behind the curtain...Maybe so." Jeff: "Now it's ON the curtain." Scott: "Oh how you taunt us. With the instruments. How did they get that stuff up there? Is it always here or is it just for us?" Kev: "Hint...Hint!" Scott walks over to the wall. "I'm going to start the next song with it. Maybe we can get the right note." *strums an old guitar with the most god-awful sound* El, Kev, Scott (all talking together):"I don't think so" "Maybe not". Scott: "Like the Country Bears". *Scott starts to sing a song I GUESS from the Country Bears. Natalie must watch them. *G*
Scott then has each member show what they do in the group. "Jeff starts off with some sort of rhythm. It's just the mouth. Believe me lady." Scott begins singing, "My Old Kentucky Home". "Oh the sun shines bright on my old Kentucky Home." Then stops. "That's all the words I know to that." So the background continues and Scott holds the mic down for a man in the audience to sing....SILENCE. Scott: "Oh you must be from Indiana. Where are you from sir?" Man: "Fifth generation Kentucky." Scott: "I think that generation skipped over the Stephen Foster generation."
"Use Me" Again, El gets the short end of the crutch as Scott mimicks a crippled walk. El then puts his crutch down on Scott's shoe to stop him. So Scott makes as if he's going to kick the crutch out from El. Kev joins in the fun and is on his hands and knees behind El and Scott pretends to push El over. Everybody felt so sorry for El. Poor cute widdle guy.
Kev: "How's everybody doing so far? Doing good? So we had a great drive. Beautiful, the trees are just awesome right now and coming from Florida it's quite a change. I was real excited to get to Hazard cause I was a big fan of the Dukes of Hazard when I was a kid." *I think one of the guys groaned at him* "What?...I was going, 'I get to meet Daisy Duke!' And they quickly reminded us that was not where that was from. 'Isn't this where the Dukes of Hazard...? 'NOOOO!' I saw the gym. We got in, got up real early to get to the radio station. Came back took a nap, went to the gym. And there was a guy at the gym. I learned a very valuable lesson today. He said, he looked at me and he goes, 'Hey man! You're the Greatest American Hero!' and I said, 'Believe it or not...' and this guy beside him goes 'No it's not! That's Peter Frampton!' And I learned a very valuable lesson...I needed a haircut! Know any good barbers? I'm sure someone here can give me a nice cut." Scott: "And when you had that shirt on and no jacket, they thought you were Greg Brady," Kev (singing): "Here's the story of a lovely lady who was bringing up three curly headed kids."
Scott: "Kevin has been here many times before actually." Kev: "Not on this stage but on the bigger stage with a lot of touring with Broadway shows." Scott: "Les Mis" "Superstar". Kev: "Annie". El: "That was me." Scott: "That was you. Yeah, Daddy Warbucks." George: "What about me? We better hurry up. I got a show with the Lion King tonight." *breaks into some of the African sounding music from the show* Scott: "Go man! George was part of the first cast of the show the Lion King. C'mon. Do a little something for us." George (singing in a deep BOOMING voice): "I know that your powers of retention are as wet as a warthog's backside. But thick as you are PAY ATTENTION!! (Kev is frightened and runs off the stage. *G*) *loud cheers*
Scott starts singing: "Pink Pajama, pink pajama bottoms. (I'm guessing that's Natalie's interpretation of the song. How cute is that? Proud Daddy ya think?)
George starts halfway doing the bass part for "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" but he started to high. When Scott tried to sing, it was WAY high. But he hit the notes! Scott: "That's too high. That's very high. Annie? Kick in, Annie." Kev laughs. Scott: "My daughter thinks it's "Pink Pajama, Pink Pajama bottoms." More laughter. Scott: "But thanks for not going to THAT show and seeing us play instead. Lion King's sold out, let's go see Rockapella. Who wouldn't?" Kev: "Maybe they'll do "The Lion Sleeps Tonight".
Finally they get back on track. "A Change in My Life"
"Have Faith"
"Rockapella's Greatest Hit"
El: "Now the Lion King overflow people are saying, 'Now I know who those guys are.'" He started talking about "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego" and described it as "a game show for PBS. A GEOGRAPHY game show. Which is pretty much why we're still touring." El's lauging again. "Generally the kids would lose. And the show would have parting gifts. And we had music for the "parting gift-giving". The "parting giving" *pause* "There's gotta be a better way to say that." Jeff: "The Gift of Parting." El: "Thank you. And this next song was the "Parting gift, gift of the gift of parting music."
"Don't Do It". Duirng this song, I held up a sign. One side said, "Don't", the other said, "Stop". Okay, I KNOW! I had it wrong! It's supposed to be "Quit" and "Stop". You'll hear El and mine conversation about it later. *G*
"Long Cool Woman" When Scott called for "backup", poor El tried to be cool and use his crutch as a gun, but he forgot his mic was under his arm and it hit the floor. So El tries to pretend that it didn't happen, but you know El...Giggles weren't far behind. I still think Scott was doing more back and forth walking to make it harder on El. *G*
After LCW, Kev gets up to do the "Pretty Woman" bit, but he's still tickled at his "partner in crime." Kev (gigglin): "Oh Elliott." (imitates dropping mic with noises)Kev: "See I like to come out into the audience. Came out before. See the first time I come out I SCOPE. I was scopin' the first time. Now I come out for bidness." *laughs* He picks out a lady named Kelly. Kev: "So Kelly. First question. That big guy up there. Is that your husband?" Kelly: "Yes, he is." Kev: "He won't hurt me will he?" Kelly: "No. I don't think so." Kev: "Okay, good." *points to hubby* "Stay up there. So, your husband up there, he looks like some sort of...baseball player." Kelly: "Close. He works for KFC". Kev: "That's KINDA baseball, you know. Baseball..All American...So Kelly what do you do?" Kelly: "I stay at home." Kev: "Wow, you're lucky." Then he begins to sing, "Oh Kelly. How you look so good tonight..better than a bucket of fried chicken."
"Pretty Woman"
"Stand By Me" People were clapping during this. I can't figure out why.
"Papa Was A Rolling Stone" as always...awesome!
"Where In the World is Carmen Sandiego" You could tell people were totally amazed at Jeff's solo. We could actually hear people "gasping". *G*
Encore: "Up On the Roof/Wonderful World" Beautiful!
Scott: "We'll be in Henderson tomorrow night. So come on over. You know we'll be drivin' tomorrow. But this is a great place. What a great town you have too. They're building something downtown, man. It's a big thing" Kev: "They tore down that little mall." El: "Man I loved that mall." Kev: "You did?" Scott: "Orange Julius, baby. It's the only thing good there. Orange Julius gone. Huge construction in. It's the way of the times. Post Office I think is what's going in." El: "No they're putting in a Hard Rock." Scott: "You guys are getting a Hard Rock of Loovle...Orange Julius is better.
They start "Dance With Me" and Kev sounded HORRIBLE. Scott: "You're on the wrong song." Kev: "I was thinking we were doing another song. I was thinking maybe the Orange Julius Song." *Scott looks at him as if he just sprouted feathers out of his butt* "Orange Julius!" *begins to sing* "O-Range Ju-Lius...Oh, that's not a song."
Scott: "The thing about a cappella is that there's no *looks pointedly at the instruments on the wall* STINKING instruments that are always the same when you hit the key, the note...I don't know what it's called. The string of the guitar. But this is all spinning around in our voices organically and if it doesn't happen just right, it's a nasty bloody mess for the front row. Kev: "I'm sorry." Scott: "The song is *looks pointedly at Kev now* DANCE...WITH...ME". I'm not sure why George's "moonwalk" gets Jeff so tickled everytime. *G*
"Zombie Jamboree" Since El still can't jump, Scott jumped with George and made certain that Kev did NOT get close to his front while jumping. *G* Naughty Kev. On the last jump sequence, Scott fakes to George, then goes to jump with Kev leaving George all alone. Did he panic? Nope. Just did some awfully sexy African Dance. Yowza!!!
"Tempted" Scott sings: "Jeff Thacher sing along..." Bet Jeff gets tired of everyone peeing on themselves everytime he sings ONE friggin' line! *G*
They ended the show with "Smilin'" VP Break: "Smilin', Smilin', Lovin', Bluegrass." Hard to tell about the rest. But it was cool anyway.
We met up with Scott (Baby Boy) right after the show and headed to the Meet and Greet.
The Meet and Greet
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