From: c60b-1hy@web-1e.berkeley.edu (Albert Wu)
Newsgroups: rec.music.christian
Subject: Concert Reviews
Date: 17 Nov 1992 02:08:43 GMT
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Summary: Steven Curtis Chapman, Cindy Morgan
Keywords: Steven Curtis Chapman, Cindy Morgan

Well, this past weekend was just a totally fun weekend for me in terms of
concerts.  First was the Steven Curtis Chapman concert on Saturday night.
Out of the Grey, Christine and Scott Dente, opened up with their guitar and
vocals only act.  They were okay.  Not having heard them before, the style
was new to me but I liked most of their songs.  I was really impressed by
Scott's guitar playing.  He can jam on that thing!
	Susan Ashton was better, I thought.  Partly cuz I heard of her and
some of her music before.  She had a band whose members all had the first
name of Mike or was it Mark?  (I forgot).  But she was entertaining.
	One thing that I have to say about Christine Dente and Susan Ashton
and probably other acts like theirs.  It would really help if they knew how
to dance.
	Now for the main event.  During the intermission, the stage crew
took everything off of the stage and then set for Steven's concert but when
they were done, the stage was bare.  They opened with the prologue to the
title track while lights on the stage came on and fog started to appear.
The other band members came up on stage with guitars around their necks.
But the stage was still bare.  Then "Saddle up your horses!"  A sheet that
had been hanging dropped to reveal the drum rig and other stuff.  Steven
came out and launched into his opening song.  It was a really entertaining
concert.  He had a good balance of fast, rowdy songs and slow ones.  He
talked to the crowd a lot but he set it up well.  His act for "Got to B Tru"
was cool.  I loved it.  One thing that I wanted him to do was his song about
Herbie, his brother, but he didn't come through.  But the concert was
totally fun and I enjoyed it so much that I wasn't able to speak at church
the next morning.
	But if I my voive recovered from Steven's concert even just a
little, it got hurt again on Sunday night at the Cindy Morgan.  A local
church in San Mateo, CA was able to get her to come out and perform.  It
wasn't a big thing.  Only about 100 people showed up cuz the place isn't
huge or anything.  But what was really cool was she was really close to the
audience.  I was in the front row and at times she was only 1 foot away from
me.  All her songs were played from recorded track.  She had a wireless
headset so she could move around and dance.  Now that was a plus to see that
she could dance.  She busted out with some pretty good moves so me and my
friend were satisfied.  In my mind, she took a risk in coming out all pumped
up and energetic and dancing since not too many people know who she is.  So
she could have looked like a total fool or get the crowd behind her.
Everyone had fun so she didn't do the former.  She sang some songs that
are not on her album "Real Life" as she played on a synthesizer.  She did
all but 2 songs from her album.  It was a fun concert.  Afterwards, she did
signing at the back and talked to everybody a little bit.  She was really
personal that night.  After everybody left, I was able to talk to her some
more and she was really cool.  This girl will be doing big things.  She's
already slated to tour on the Young Messiah tour.  If you haven't heard of
her, and like the pop/dance music style, check out her album.  Mark Hammond
was her producer.  She also had Phil Naish help her out with some of the
music.  Cool album.
	That's it for my concert reviews.  I might put one up after Petra
concert next week and after my voice gets totally wrecked.
	Till then, hasta.

Albert Wu			"I believe in God the Father, Maker of
UC Berkeley			 heaven and earth.  And in Jesus Christ His
c60b-1hy@web.berkeley.edu	 only son, I believe in the virgin birth."
					-- "Creed" by Petra

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