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Beyonce - Drunk Monk - 07-13-2009
Beyonce @ Oracle 7/10/9
Rich Girl opened, which were four girls in lingerie dancing on folding ladders. Surprisingly, that didn't quite work for me.
Beyonce opened with Crazy in Love, confetti cannons and dancers and instantly got down next and dirty with Naughty Girl. That's what's called 'had DM at hello'. She's got an amazing vocal range from pop rock, gospel, rap, blues and reggae (more on that to come) and can really dance. I love the dancers - shows with extreme choreography are few and far in between. Beyonce is just a tad less powerful than Madonna in that respect (Madonna is older, much to her credit). Beyonce has the legs of a gazelle (akin to Tina Turner), the body of a cheetah, complete with spots when in costume, and the hips of a jack rabbit on crank. That woman can do a pelvic thrust with such machine-gun rapidity that she ignite a wet newspaper to burst into flames if held between her legs. The show was full of dancers, special effects, multi-media and such, to both accentuate her dancing and cover her costume changes. The whole Sasha Fierce trip, well, as a straight male with a pulse, all I can say is I loved the lite-up bikini lingerie. The house was filled with women, dressed to the nines - and as I told a newbie RM volunteer, 'why wouldn't any guy with a pulse want to be here?' Bring on more Sasha. Diva was banging. She had home video of her when five, revealing that she's always had moves and always been able to sing. To hear her talk about MJ at that age was profound, and when the bassist in her all female band dropped the line for Billie Jean, the house went nuts. Then, after flying across the Oracle, suspended from a high wire at least 50 feet up and singing Baby Boy, she went for the kill. The JA flag started waving on the massive backdrop screen and she dropped You Don't Love Me, Dawn Penn's one-hit wonder, one of the grooviest slow grind hip shakers of reggae ever and still in DM's top 25 reggae riddems of all time.
budabudabudabudabudapumpum
budabudabudabudabudapumpum
budabudabudabudabudapumpum
pum
pum
no, no, no
you don't love me and i know now...
At this point, Dm was moments from tossing it all and following Beyonce for the rest of the tour. The rest of the show is a bit of a blur. RM was short staffed, and while we weren't really busy, per se, Dm kept on the move, giving a newbie a magic carpet ride he won't soon forget, just be trying to keep up with Dm at a show that he's into. Beyonce encored with Halo as a MJ tribute and Dm found himself more moved than with Paris's farewell and regretting that he never did experience MJ live.
Beyonce got me. She totally got me. I can hear ED's mockery now, but he knows my soft spot for pop divas.
Re: Beyonce @ Oracle 7/10/9 - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 07-13-2009
I was wondering if you were going to do any actual RM work at this show. Bustiere repair?
if only... - Drunk Monk - 07-14-2009
Most of the issues were hysterical and I mean that in the Freudian root of the word. Crowd syndrome. Ladies were getting overwhelmed. There were some young girls there that had similar problems since they tend to be the most prone to crowd syndrome after emo boys. There was one woman that have been on Beyonce tour, starting at MSG and had hit like a dozen shows - she was exhausted. Then there was these two tall drunk blondes, all legs, clad only in knock-me-down/knock-me-up heels and shimmery, sparkly dishtowels of dresses. Dm nobly escorted them to their limo. Alas, a vet RMer's work is never done.
There was a car accident too. - Drunk Monk - 07-15-2009
It was in the parking lot. Rental vs. golf cart. The golf cart lost, but the driver was ok. He split his head pretty good, so he got an ambulance ride.
So here's a taste of Beyonce as a Dancehall Diva. Even in this hecka blown cell phone vid, you can see the JA flag and power of her hips.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9a00c_beyonce-you-dont-love-me-no-no-no-p_music?from=rss
Turns out Rihanna covered this too. Still haven't seen her live, but hope to someday. Love them Dancehall divas.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5akz2_rihanna-you-dont-love-me-if-its-lov_music
Sweet JAH I love that song. The original riddem was Steely & Clevie, reggae's biggest riddem team after Sly & Robbie. No one sticks the vocals like Dawn. Beyonce and Rihanna got the moves for the groove, but seriously, who would leave them? They don't feel the blues of it.
The original live
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A fat remix
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Re: Beyonce @ Oracle 7/10/9 - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 07-15-2009
Wow! Cel phone videos really suck. I received no impact whatsoever. Thanks for that.
let's try another cell phone - Drunk Monk - 07-15-2009
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@ Levis 5/16/16 - Drunk Monk - 05-16-2016
I'm at Levi's now, waiting for Beyonce. There's an opening act but I don't really care who it is. Sold out show. The cops were worried about protesters. There was even a designated protest zone. Didn't hear from any actual witnesses of said protest yet. Will update more later
I slay - Drunk Monk - 05-16-2016
Opened with Formation. The stage is a massive obelisk of towering screens that rotates. There's a large L shaped glory ramp and she has a battalion of hard dancers. Big bass. Big booty. In fact, the night is all about big booty, and not always good booty, butt really really big.
Queen B dropped a little reggae so I'm happy. The obelisk unfolded into 4 screens (a quadtich?). She can still dance and command the stage. Still fierce. The new stuff is pretty disonnant, the video imagery is harsh, the beats are almost rudimentary drumming. Lots of smoke, some pyro. It's a big stadium show, a little too big in some ways.
I've been running odd errands for RM. it's mostly drunk gals in stiletto heels.
Prince - Drunk Monk - 05-16-2016
For her Prince tribute, she played Purple Rain over her gigantic sound system, and bathed the audience in purple as the held aloft their cells. It covered a costume change. I was hoping for a Halo, but she did that for Michael.
It's going to take forever to get out of here and I still don't have the damn jump bag and banner I need for this weekend.
ow - Drunk Monk - 05-17-2016
Oh man, my head hurts. It's a Beyonce hangover.
In the end, I gotta give Formation a big 'meh'. Beyonce is still a startling talent and those legs, wow, can she dance. But the show didn't work for me in the end. I didn't have a single moving moment. That's weird because I think I liked the message she was putting out with her music, but I couldn't really grasp it all because I was working after all. Perhaps she just doesn't quite move to the stadium show so well, and should stick with arenas. More likely, it was Levi's. I hate Levi's.
Levi's is a freakin nazi stadium 'Oh, we held Superbowl 50 so the sun shines out of our ass' Not even. RM is classified as 'employees' because they don't have a box for volunteers. Employees are not permitted to take photos or selfies once past the metal detectors, not allowed to buy merch, and not even allowed to buy over priced concessions. (fortunately a friend snuck me backstage for vittles, because the provided employee box 'lunch' was a hot dog, chips and a cookie. These are all grounds for ejection. We get free parking in the $50 a space Yellow lot across the street, but that means we have to wait until everyone leaves before we can leave, and then the traffic flow spits us out in a weird part of San Jose, miles from the freeway. We have to wear uniforms. We have photo ID. I was pissed that I got one this year because that means I didn't get the temp ID. The photo ID gets me into the whole season. The temp ID has the show's name on it, along with my name. There's no way I'll remember what show I was at without laminates (except the notes I keep here). I hate this venue.
Venue aside, ordinarily I leave a good show with a few earworms. This time, my earworms are Halo (which I didn't hear her sing, if she did), Bam-Bam (a reggae classic from Sister Nancy that she sampled), and Purple Rain.
I really wanted to be impressed by her again. But no... not this time.
Recant - Drunk Monk - 09-18-2016
Beyonce @ Levis 9/17/16
I went back. Tara wanted to go. We posed and saw most of the show. I recant my earlier posts on her Formation tour. It was awesome. Last time, I just didn't see enough of it and always from the wrong angles. Tonight I saw most of the beginning from the top of 207 behind one of cat's teachers and two of her friends and most of then end from the field and was totally impressed.
Levis still sux but it made for a good night tonight. Queen Bey ruled. Tara had a good experience and was blown away by it all.
I SLAY
I SLAY - Drunk Monk - 09-19-2016
So we went in with one of my main JNK partners-in-crime who had never worked a stadium show before, much less Levi's. Tara went for Taylor Swift, so she sort of knew what to expect. What's more, one of her teachers was there with her daughter who is a grade below Tara, and one of Tara's most in-yo-face classmates (because of which she finds her annoying). Her classmate has been bragging about going to Beyonce for weeks, but she's not even in the Bee-Hive.
Traffic was harsh getting in and once again, Levi RM has no idea what to do with psych, so they gave me a radio (which I couldn't hear because it was way too soft) and said 'do what you like'. They also gave me wristbands and meal tickets for my crew (Tara and my JNKpnc). I was introduced rather formally at the meeting to the RM crew. Then I just posed. We took the JNKpnc on a walking tour of the venue, and grabbed dinner, which this time was ribs, collared greens (done in ham), sweet potatoes (with pineapple), salad, veg pasta, a roll and potato chips. It was enough for all of us as Tara and I eat light (we brought in burritos just in case but never ate them). T's friends had a hard time getting in because Levi's is a beyotch that way, but we hooked up with them just when Queen Bey hit stage at their seats which were at the top of the 200s, and fortuitously, there were three empty seat behind them. Turned out that the JNKpnc knew Tara's teacher because his son-in-law went to the same school before, an odd factoid I knew from facebook, and Tara was really amused seeing her get down to Beyonce. The occupants of the seats didn't show up for like 7+ songs, so we enjoyed the whole beginning of the show.
The opening was awesome. The 100+feet cube screen is so powerful, even from the back of the stadium. Queen Bey was in full force, and we caught Kitty Kat (which was amusing because Tara goes by Cat at school) and Baby Boy, her reggae-influenced tune, which made me very irie and amused the heck out of my team. We could feel the heat from the pyro all the way in the back there.
When the seat occupants came, we went back to RM to show face. I got in a major discussion about drug protocols with the CMO, which was great, allaying my guilt for posing all night. Then we went down to the floor just in time for Daddy Lessons, a song that elicited an amusing dialog with Tara about learning to shoot on the way in. Tara has Formation on her iPhone, and I have Sasha Fierce on CD, so she knows Beyonce. We caught the rest of the show from the floor. Because I'm not allowed to wear my RM jacket at naziLevis, I was issued a uniform jacket that says "Medical Services" in fat white letters on the back. Can't be discreet in that. But Tara and the JNKpnc wore good ninja black jackets, so they both snuck up close to stage and got a really good view for a few songs, while I hung at the back of the auditorium pressing my back to a wall so as not to look like I was posing all night. We caught the rest of the show from the floor, only moving once so as not to let our posing spots go too stale (we were asked once to show our floor access wristbands by a levisstormtrooper so we shifted positions).
The Purple Rain tribute was moving - the auditorium lit up with waving cell lights and just to hear Prince on a massive soundsystem was a delight. It was tempting to cover Tara's eyes during Naughty Girl. But she's a big girl now (Stacy has even taken her to Victoria's Secret....whaaaaaaaat?) At one point, the glory stage filled with ankle deep water, accentuating the dancers high kicks and reminding everyone of Bey's N'awlins undertone of Lemonade. Her closing Halo was so overdone, a boisterous finally with fireworks blasting up at every line, totally ruining the vibe of the song to my way of thinking, but still celebrating the power of Queen Bey.
In the end, Tara felt Beyonce totally slayed Taylor Swift, but concede (after I reminded her) that T-swizzle is much younger. And the JNKpnc was totally moved. He too has joined the Bee-Hive.
RE: Beyonce - Drunk Monk - 07-31-2023
Confirmed for Queen B next month.
RE: Beyonce - Drunk Monk - 08-23-2023
Quote:Beyoncé gets curfew extension for show at Levi’s Stadium
[b]SANTA CLARA, Calif.[/b] - Beyoncé is scheduled to bring her highly anticipated Renaissance World Tour to the Bay Area next week.
Queen Bey will grace the Bay Area stage for the first time since 2018, performing at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara. City officials have granted her a curfew extension for the tour-stop, allowing the show to go until 11 p.m., as reported by the East Bay Times.
Last month, Taylor Swift exceeded the 10 p.m. weeknight curfew for on both nights of her Eras Tour at the venue.
This upcoming show will mark Beyoncé's fifth appearance at Levi's Stadium. Notably, her most memorable visit was her halftime performance during Super Bowl 50.
It took me forever to get home from T-Swizzle. I'll be lucky if I can get home in time for my morning telemeetings.
RE: Beyonce - Greg - 08-23-2023
You can never go home again.