In an ironic twist of fate, I am sick the first day of 2010. I think I was sick the first day of 2009, but my journal is pretty unclear on the whole thing.
Anyway, it is exhausting to move today, so the chair has been a consistent home. I wanted to get away from television after Florida State won their bowl game. So I put in the copy of Pinks Concert video I had gotten a little bit ago.
I am a big Pink fan. I like her voice, I have seen her in concert. She works with musicians that I like (Butch Walker, Tim Armstrong), and I think that of all the pop singers out there now, she seems to be the most fun.
The DVD comes from her massive tour of Austrailia. I think it is one of the last nights of the Sydney dates. It is only about 90 minutes long, but given the scale of the production, I cannot imagine I missed something.
First off, the performer, Pink, looks and sounds amazing. She is clearly in top shape. Her voice is confident and more than able to do anything that the music calls for. She is able to loosely improvise, and have fun with the musicians. Like all big productions, this is a tightly choreographed show, but it still fills like you are seeing a live concert.
The band is top notch and tight. The back up singers remind me of the famous back up singers Madonna had for all those years. The only instruments that are prominent in the staging are the make lead guitar player, who looks to be the band leader. A female bass player, who managed to put her bass down and play a Flying V guitar for a number. And a drummer who had good rock chops, but over all this was musical theatre, and he reflected that.
The production is amazing. It incorporates the circus and Cirque du Soleil. Pink sings the songs live into a hand held mic, except for songs when she is hanging above the stage on bungee cords or Matrix style cabling. You can hear her work hard, and you can here her adlib lyrics.
The thing that really drew me to this show, and the reason I called this uplifting was the way this was shot. A good portion of this is tight shots of Pinks face, and she is funny and laughing. I think it is uplifting when co workers truly enjoy what each other is doing. You can see this especially in music, theatre, sports maybe. When the collective creative energy is soaring. You see musicians who have been together for a long time have this interesting langauge that requires NO TALKING.
It was an uplifting show. I would put it in the top ten of my all time live DVDs. But, that will be another post.