[dar-list] Corvallis

[liz carey]

Hi Darheads,

I'm an ex-patriot from New England and grab a Dar show
whenever she pops by Oregon and thank goodness she did
this past weekend!  I offer a second take on the show.
 

Anne Weiss opened which was great!  She's a Portlander
herself and a really great songwriter.  She and Dar
have been friends for years and Dar does backing
vocals on two tracks of Anne's lastest albumn,
Braille.  Anne's song "Buddhas on the Road" has a line
that reads: "And my friends are all like beacons with
the sun's hair hanging down", which she said was a
reference to Dar.  Then, Dar came to do harmonies on
"Old Friend" during Anne's set. 

Dar looked beautiful as ever, with a barrette holding
up one side of her hair.  Micheal and Stephen had been
with her through California and then went home after
San Fransico.  It was the most engrossing Dar show I'd
been to, perhaps because of the venue, a high school
auditorium.  She thanked all the teenagers for running
the show.  On her set-up for "Teen for God", she said:
" I was a religious teenager and my parents were not. 
Religious.  Or teenagers."

As mentioned by my fellow Oregonian, Dar did a great
bit on Spring Street.  My take: At "Like the start of
a film noir postcard/Can I just forget the frames I
shared with you?" she choked and started coughing. 
She gave a narrative of the story around the song and
said that her flaky friends in New York wanted her to
move there.  But she was a sturdy New Englander and
wouldn't budge.  Then, she started reciting the lyrics
to find her place, stated the above line and then
said: "which is a metaphore that not a lot of people
get."  She started singing right where she had left
off.  When she sang "I can't believe what they're
saying.  They're saying I can change my mind", she
stopped and said "see how flaky they are?" then
resumed.  She added that she would eventually flake
out herself and move to New York, but "I hadn't yet in
this song."  WHAT A PERFORMER!  It was really great.

I liked the Easy Way, but thought it was very
personal, straight forward, and emotional, not typical
Dar.  The line "I never took the easy way.  So, take
it easy on me now" is why Dar is such a role model to
women.  Anne did harmonies on "The Mercy of the
Fallen", as she often does in Oregon area Dar shows. 
For the purposes of this record, I wrote down her
setlist, in order:
1.  Calling the Moon
2.  If I Wrote You (I'd never heard that live before -
It's so beautiful!)
3.  Teen for God
4.  Beauty of the Rain
5.  Spring Street
6.  The One Who Knows
7.  I Had No Right (a book report written to impress
her sister)
8.  The Babysitter's Here
9.  The Easy Way
10.  After All
11.  Iowa (complete with "flashing blue squares of
interdependence-I mean, interconnectredness")
12.  The Christians and the Pagans
13.  Encore - When I Was a Boy ("This song is about me
and hopefully its about you too")
THANKS DAR!
In solidarity from the Pacific Northwest,
Liz Carey


 
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