08/14/10 Costa Mesa, CA Pacific Amphitheater

[i_love_yankovic]

Looks like I got the same email as everyone else.

Mikeglb and Allinite - I also got two VIP packages and have not received them yet. =/ My mom ordered her ticket a week later than I did and has gotten hers already...

I'm afraid something silly happened with my shipping address when PAID took over. Artist Arena made me change my shipping address to where I'll be staying while I'm on vacation in California (I normally live in Western Australia). Maybe PAID didn't know of that change though and my VIP packages got shipped to Australia? =/

[mrnetop]

My extra weird al ticket has been claimed

Thanks

[Aron]

Printed out my email tickets and can't wait! We're going to be busy for some of the day, but I'll see if we run into anyone there to say hi!

Drop me a note if you'll be there and I'll send you my cell # so you can text me

[hammermill]

Greetings, all!

New user here with a spare ticket for Saturday night's show at the Orange County fair. One of my party dropped out (apparently RSVP "yes" doesn't mean what it used to!) so hopefully someone who appreciates The Weird One will take advantage of this opportunity. I am in no way looking to profit and am offering the ticket at face value (14.80 USD). Ticket is for Section 6 (center Terrace), Row F, Seat 51 or 55 (your choice) and also includes fair admission plus a free ride on "La Grande Wheel" after the show! Here is a link to the layout of the venue:

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Thanks for your attention and see y'all at the show!

[Alinite27]

Tonight is my 27th show on this tour! Can't wait!!!

[Interrobang]

Another great show! He performed Frank's 2000'' TV and You Don't Love Me Anymore, which is what I was expecting. My CC row seats got me very close to Al during Wanna B Ur Lovr!

Does anybody know if Al went to meet fans after this show?

[NH Weird Al Fan]

I just read a comment on Facebook that there was no meet & greet tonight.

[Orthography Enthusiast]

I went to tonight's show with a friend from college, her husband, two sons and a visiting niece. We ran into Vikki, Henry, Jordan, Louise, Melissa, Julie, Dave and Jackie when we were beginning to think about something to eat, and kind of bonded over plates of fried things and the necessity of defending our picnic-table turf from interlopers. The interlopers tended to lope right off, though. Maybe they felt underdressed in comparison to us in our various Al-related finery. And special thanks to our own Elvis for being willing to show his leg tats to both my Friday friend and my Saturday friends. You're a good sport, Dave.

We were a little higher up tonight, in Row F. Still good seats, but not down there in the pit with the other diehards. I made sure the visiting niece got the coveted aisle seat (she didn't know it was coveted, but I think she figured it out eventually).

There was a review in the OC Register of Friday's concert that was, in general, just great,http://soundcheck.ocregister.com/2010/0 ... ver/33231/ but did seem to kind of overestimate the time taken by video segments/costume changes. So I got all nerdy and persnickety and timed them with the stopwatch function on my cell phone. It came out to about 35 minutes, out of a 2 hour 15 minute show. Less than I was expecting. (I didn't count the Fat video, since that's really more a part of the song, or the jam at the end of Fat, because that, of course, is live music).

There was also a Ticketmaster customer review by some guy who thought Al was lip-syncing. Pfft. Apparently he wasn't sitting close enough to see Al's actual lips. Al & the guys just can't catch a break. They go to all kinds of trouble to recreate music, and get mistaken for karaoke tracks (no offense to karaoke, Kevin!). Al makes every effort to have excellent sound and to sing clearly, and gets mistaken for a lip-syncer. But the customer who made that mistake wouldn't have made it if he'd been to tonight's show. Al's voice was a little rough on a song or two early in the show. It did warm up and get better further in, but it was enough to make clear that this was not a pre-recorded vocal. The idea.

Al came up our aisle during WBUL, so visiting niece got a good look at him. He didn't sing to her, but then he probably doesn't want to look like he's hitting on a 15 year old anyway. She was thrilled in any case. My whole party, in fact, enjoyed the show to the max. I love it when I can bring friends into this experience.

Everybody found the Yoda chant to be both baffling and jaw-dropping. We were amusing ourselves walking out by wondering what the rehearsals for that must have been like.

Another wonderful night. Thanks, Al!

Next show for me: Antelope Valley

[Driew_La_27]

There was also a Ticketmaster customer review by some guy who thought Al was lip-syncing. Pfft. Apparently he wasn't sitting close enough to see Al's actual lips. Al & the guys just can't catch a break. They go to all kinds of trouble to recreate music, and get mistaken for karaoke tracks (no offense to karaoke, Kevin!). Al makes every effort to have excellent sound and to sing clearly, and gets mistaken for a lip-syncer. But the customer who made that mistake wouldn't have made it if he'd been to tonight's show. Al's voice was a little rough on a song or two early in the show. It did warm up and get better further in, but it was enough to make clear that this was not a pre-recorded vocal. The idea.

Al does use a lot of pre-recorded vocal tracks during his live show though. So I can understand where that person thought he was lip syncing. For example, I was at a Puyallup show a few years ago, and in between songs the vocal track to Melanie started playing out of the blue and you could clearly hear Al's vocals as the backing singer on the track. The track was basically singing every word, but was used so that Al didn't have to always hit the high notes when his voice was weak on a particular night.

From the youtube clips I think Whatever You Like is the biggest culprit to this. The backing vocals (I know wrong terminology, but its late) are from Al, so when he's singing the song live, the background vocals take over for Al's voice. Here's an example of WYL and Al's vocals almost being completely buried under the track. Yes, this is breaking the rules, but I'm using it to explain the confusion for some fans

[heidiklum]

Fun show! The crowd seemed to love it and my group was enamored!

The Yoda chant was surreal.

Jamie Lee Curtis was several rows behind us. We were in row EE. After the show, we talked to Judy Tenuta for a bit. She loved the show too!