Sit on a concert too long without saying much about it and it starts fading fast into the hall of memory. And memories are hard to hold onto for very long, not without throwing some bookends around them. Take a lot of blurry photographs of those memories. Throw some words in their direction and a safety net underneath if you’re to keep them safe, sound. Me, I prefer my memories vibrant (with a nice filter on top for good measure). I like to take them out now and again, play some show and tell, even dive headlong into that old nostalgia pool for a long dip.
On that note, here are a few things I can attach to the Lisa Loeb show from a few days ago. (Then again, maybe it’s been a week. Things get cloudy.)
I don’t know why I went. Beyond knowing pretty much most of the words to “Stay (I Missed You)” and to a far lesser degree “I Do,” I can say with a large chunk of certainty that I didn’t know any other of her songs. She was the singer that looked like the cutest librarian to ever work the front desk and had those grandma glasses to match the stereotype. It’s a curious thing to want to see a singer play who’s made a career based on a couple of hits. I suppose I was just the right amount of curious to see what else it was she’d do. Maybe there’d be some tap dancing if I was lucky.
The cool thing is this: she hasn’t appeared to change all that much. I was curious about that part, too. Score one for whatever Fountain of Youth she’s gone and bathed in. Lisa’s pushing 50 in a few years, yet she still looks almost alarmingly similar to the girl in the music video, the one where she “turned the radio on, turned the radio up, this woman was singing my song.” She seemed just as awkward as she probably has ever been, too, helping transform The Plaza Live into a gentle sort of coffeehouse for a whole hour or so. She stood alone on a big stage, all dressed in black, playing her acoustic guitar and telling her share of rambling stories in between. It was really pretty close to everything we (okay, I) expected we might hear and see and feel. She was kind enough to show up and take us back to a time fondly remembered. We couldn’t help but get a bit nostalgic in the process.
We also got to learn about the other things she’s been up to—some acting, a string of albums, a children’s book, even her own line of eyewear—and we were happy to hear she seemed to be thriving. Why shouldn’t we be?
At the end of the show, I got to touch her. That sounds weird. But if you write “I touched a Lisa Loeb tonight” on Facebook, your friends scramble all over themselves to click that LIKE button. Lindsay and I accidentally found ourselves at the front of a long line and promptly determined we didn’t have enough bread to get any of Lisa’s music or tees. And still she was nice enough to take a couple snapshots with us. In mine, I got to look like a giant man-child standing next to her. A beardy man-child that had to reach down just to awkwardly place his hand on her shoulder.
That’s the kind of thing that helps cement a memory. Maybe I’ll write a song about it and send it her way. And it’ll definitely maybe be a radio hit.
Lisa Loeb Review By Dainon.
Lisa Loeb Live Concert Photos by Lindsay.
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