Reply #125: Ahh the Moore

[miss_kitty]

A derelict theatre turned into a movie theater (The Moore Egyptian) I saw the dutch film 'Kathy Tippel' there.

I saw Crowded House, Roger McGuinn open and did the most fuckin awesomest version of "The Chestnut Mare" EVER! It gives me chills just saying he did it!

And Crowded House-what a great concert! We were up in the balcony, and at one point in the show Tim Finn was talking to the crowd and he said "If someone can identify this note, I give them a big prize'" So he played a chord and from the 2nd or 3rd row someone yells out "C sharp Minor!" He said "Who was that? You? come 'ere!" and this gal from the audience gets up on stage. He asks her her name and shit "Whaddya do" She said she went to university he asked what she was studying and she said she was a music major. He laughs and said "She's a Majorette!" and someone in the band starts up some marching music.

Then he says "You know I picked such an obscure chord, I didn't think anyone would get it. I don't have a prize. I feel really bad. Would you like to sing a song with us for your prize?" She said "Well-YEAH!" I can't remember which song she sang, but she was pretty good for someone with no warm up...

I ran into her a few months later when Tim Finn came through as a solo act and asked her about the whole thing "wow perfect pitch! How cool is that-that you got to use it like that!" "oh I don't have perfect pitch. I'm not EVEN a student! I just guessed! And it was totally cool singing with them like that!"