I just thought I'd post a quick review of Sheila's performance with Ringo and his All-Starr Band from this weekend. I saw the concert on Sunday, and it was another great performance by Sheila. Aside from Ringo and Sheila, the band included John Waite, Colin Hay, Paul Carrack, and the amazing Mark Rivera (Ringo's bandleader; he plays about 20 different instruments during the course of the night).

Sheila stole the show; her smile never disappeared during the entire concert, and her energy was infectious. She got the loudest cheers from the audience. Fairly early on, the band played an incredibly tight and funky "A Love Bizarre." I was really impressed by how good it sounded. Sheila's voice also sounded great--she seems to have grown into her voice over the years and become a more confident singer. Immediately after "Love Bizarre," Sheila went into a drum solo that totally rocked and had the audience jumping to its feet. The drum solo began slowly and built up to an amazing thunderous finale.

Later in the show, the timbales were brought out and Sheila moved to the front of the stage for "The Glamorous Life." Sheila now skips the second verse of the song, but it doesn't matter. The song rocks, and Sheila completely kicked some ass when she broke into the timbale solo at the end. She just pounded the crap out of the skins and the crowd roared.

I loved the show and was really happy to get the chance to see Sheila live again, especially since it was the last show of the tour. Anybody else catch this tour?

I missed it but wow, they gave her time to do her thing, coool!

I hope there will be a DVD.

Also, your avatar, nice little sheila photo, may I have a larger photo!

When they do Love Bizarre, is it the much better, funkier version with horns that Prince debuted with Sheila on the Romance 1600 Live video (the one with all the horns, and the "turnaround" and the "new part...unnh!")??

Even back in the "Sheila E." self-titled tour around 1987 she was performing it that way live and in the House of Blues concert she did an even jazzier version.

I'm curious cuz I always thought the LP version and her SNL peformance never did the song justice the way the newer version id.

It was similar to the Romance 1600 video, but a lot shorter, obviously. Mark Rivera did a sax solo that was nothing like Eddie M. ever did, but it was cool.

I never knew Sheila toured for her self-titled album. Wish I could have seen that. I would love to hear Love on a Blue Train live. I'm hoping she brings it back at the Family Jamm.

FlyingCloudPassenger said:

You can find quite a few Sheila pix here:
http://www.eririn80.com/n...ila/1.html

Efan said:

Thanks for the review. I am trying to rent last year's ringo DVD but can't find it. I don't really want to buy it cuz all I care about is Sheila.

So it had the horn/synth parts after each chorus? (i.e. "we all a want a love bizarre")?



I don't know how extensive a tour it was. I found out she was goign to be in Atlantic City and raced down in a snowstorm from Cornell Univ. to see her. It was awesome, especially cuz I jumped onstage and kissed her, and a bunch of us got onstage for the encore!!!

I saw the same show later cuz Sheila opened for Lionel Riche's "Dancing On the Ceiling" tour. That wasn't as good cuz it was in Madiosn Square Garden an we had bad seats.

But Love on blue Train rocks live! And Boni Boyer and Levi were in the band...this was before SOTT!

GaryMF said:

This is also when she had half of Tony Toni Tone in her band including Rapheal.