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Marsha Ambrosius, in Dallas at Medusa, Floetry continues to be my favorite group even though they broke up like 12 yrs ago (and have since unexpectedly reunited and went on tour but my girlfriend said no) but I did get to see Marsha by herself. She is amazing live, sounds as good or in fact better than the album. Hits all the notes for real for real unlike a lot of artists who fake it. And she is funny, engaging, tells stories while leading into the songs. I was by myself and it was mostly couples there (by the way you Dallas dudes STILL can not dress), so I got a bit self conscious about just standing there by myself so I kept getting drinks so I'd look like I was doing something with my hands or something while I'm 2 stepping in place 
Ended up getting super drunk and then I'm about to order another drink and who runs into me at the bar but my cousin from Mississippi. Talked to her for a minute, forgot to order my drink. May have said my life. Slight exxageration, I was at the goofy stage of predrunk but not falling over or puking by any measure. Amazing time though. Every time I go to Dallas, I go to BuzzBrews to eat late so I went there after I walked back to my hotel and left it wear off a bit. BJ The Chicago Kid opened up, made me a fan. He is a bit full of himself for where he is in his career though. He was trying to get women to volunteer to let him seranade them and he was like, "c'mere baby, you want me to sing to you?" Tell me how it feels.." something like that, extremely sexual and them ghetto *** Dallas women was like, "NO! NO! *****!" He had on a blouse too. Don't know if that's popping in Chicago but that was definitely a feminine necklike
Chrisette Michelle opened up for by Laura Izibor- both artists can sing amazing live and are engaging on stage performers which is equally as important; tell a story then go into their song, Laura also plays the piano too which further increases the intimacy. It was in Dallas House of Blues
Maxwell opened up for by Kevin Ross- K.R was a new kat just coming up, everyone was like who but no doubt dude killed it. I went home and set up a "please notify me" for his Dialogue In The Grey EP which wasn't out yet. And Maxwell just murked. I know it seems like the type of concert a dude wouldn't like, but he wasn't OD'ing with the shirt off or sexualness like Trey and Usher do. At the end after they left, everyone stood out adnd started clapping and chanting, he came back out by himself then yelled back calling for the band and background singers, did about 30 minutes of encore, left, did it again, gave us a few more songs, left came back out again by himself and gave us 1 last encore. His whole set was well over 2 hrs after that, just his encores alone to appease the crowd after the show was over weas longer than most artist' whole set.
Sam Smith at the House of Blues Dallas was a major fail. I should have known better, he is a new artist and only had the one album out and them songs are all 3 minutes long, the whole thing is 40 something minutes. Got down to Dallas even though tickets were sold out, thought I'd buy them outside the venue like they had at the C.M concert for face value because kats on LiveNation (the official resale venue) were asking $200. Last minute, kats were dropping their prices WAY low on CL but they wanted me to meet them places and I don't know Dallas like that, plus my hotel was down the street from the show so I ended up paying $250 for some off LiveNation then went downatairs at the hotel to print them. His opening act was The Brood, a rock band :x He came out, did the whole album but again that **** is like 40 minutes. He killed, but still. I am still salty about it
Jill Scott kills live, same thing, amazing voice, live band, live background vocals, no track playing with any voice being sung over or anything and again she narrarates her performances.
Seen Raheem Devaughn a few times and he's entertaining live too. Gets the women super hot and bothered with some songs. At this ratcher club in OKC, they advertised the show as starting at 3 but was misleading as hell, the show started with turns of terrible local acts, this dude R.D plane didn't even arrive til like 9pm. People were so upset and were leaving. Hell, I got a speednig ticket for like $256 trying to hurry up and get there before 3 thinking I was running late. And it being at 3pm meant it was a lot of people's aunties and grandmas in there who wouldn't normally be at something like that, and the ones who stayed the like 8 hours until the show already started were just wylin especially at his overly sexual songs like B.O.B. The sound kept blowing and he kept having to stop, the engineers would run on stage, work on it meanwhile he'd go accapella. They'd think they got it working then it'd blow again. Same cycle. **** was a mess
Ledisi is worth seeing IMO, I didn't even like her that much but she was with Raheem Devaugh and Leela James, but she won me over. I still wouldn't go see her by herself.
I saw Destiny's Child, they performed at the gym when they were the original 4 and didn't have a lot of songs out so they sung a lot of like Aaliyah and Lauryn Hill.
I was a all star weekend so not concert but Nelly, Janelle Monae, Pharrell Williams, Puffy, Busta Rhymes, Ludacris, Kendrick Lamar, all performed
Every year I make plans to go to Essense Music Festival and every year something comes up. I need to just buy my tickets way in advance and let whatever comes up just deal with it this year
Fam, would be all over that show.
Ended up getting super drunk and then I'm about to order another drink and who runs into me at the bar but my cousin from Mississippi. Talked to her for a minute, forgot to order my drink. May have said my life. Slight exxageration, I was at the goofy stage of predrunk but not falling over or puking by any measure. Amazing time though. Every time I go to Dallas, I go to BuzzBrews to eat late so I went there after I walked back to my hotel and left it wear off a bit. BJ The Chicago Kid opened up, made me a fan. He is a bit full of himself for where he is in his career though. He was trying to get women to volunteer to let him seranade them and he was like, "c'mere baby, you want me to sing to you?" Tell me how it feels.." something like that, extremely sexual and them ghetto *** Dallas women was like, "NO! NO! *****!" He had on a blouse too. Don't know if that's popping in Chicago but that was definitely a feminine necklikeChrisette Michelle opened up for by Laura Izibor- both artists can sing amazing live and are engaging on stage performers which is equally as important; tell a story then go into their song, Laura also plays the piano too which further increases the intimacy. It was in Dallas House of Blues
Maxwell opened up for by Kevin Ross- K.R was a new kat just coming up, everyone was like who but no doubt dude killed it. I went home and set up a "please notify me" for his Dialogue In The Grey EP which wasn't out yet. And Maxwell just murked. I know it seems like the type of concert a dude wouldn't like, but he wasn't OD'ing with the shirt off or sexualness like Trey and Usher do. At the end after they left, everyone stood out adnd started clapping and chanting, he came back out by himself then yelled back calling for the band and background singers, did about 30 minutes of encore, left, did it again, gave us a few more songs, left came back out again by himself and gave us 1 last encore. His whole set was well over 2 hrs after that, just his encores alone to appease the crowd after the show was over weas longer than most artist' whole set.
Sam Smith at the House of Blues Dallas was a major fail. I should have known better, he is a new artist and only had the one album out and them songs are all 3 minutes long, the whole thing is 40 something minutes. Got down to Dallas even though tickets were sold out, thought I'd buy them outside the venue like they had at the C.M concert for face value because kats on LiveNation (the official resale venue) were asking $200. Last minute, kats were dropping their prices WAY low on CL but they wanted me to meet them places and I don't know Dallas like that, plus my hotel was down the street from the show so I ended up paying $250 for some off LiveNation then went downatairs at the hotel to print them. His opening act was The Brood, a rock band :x He came out, did the whole album but again that **** is like 40 minutes. He killed, but still. I am still salty about it
Jill Scott kills live, same thing, amazing voice, live band, live background vocals, no track playing with any voice being sung over or anything and again she narrarates her performances.
Seen Raheem Devaughn a few times and he's entertaining live too. Gets the women super hot and bothered with some songs. At this ratcher club in OKC, they advertised the show as starting at 3 but was misleading as hell, the show started with turns of terrible local acts, this dude R.D plane didn't even arrive til like 9pm. People were so upset and were leaving. Hell, I got a speednig ticket for like $256 trying to hurry up and get there before 3 thinking I was running late. And it being at 3pm meant it was a lot of people's aunties and grandmas in there who wouldn't normally be at something like that, and the ones who stayed the like 8 hours until the show already started were just wylin especially at his overly sexual songs like B.O.B. The sound kept blowing and he kept having to stop, the engineers would run on stage, work on it meanwhile he'd go accapella. They'd think they got it working then it'd blow again. Same cycle. **** was a mess
Ledisi is worth seeing IMO, I didn't even like her that much but she was with Raheem Devaugh and Leela James, but she won me over. I still wouldn't go see her by herself.
I saw Destiny's Child, they performed at the gym when they were the original 4 and didn't have a lot of songs out so they sung a lot of like Aaliyah and Lauryn Hill.
I was a all star weekend so not concert but Nelly, Janelle Monae, Pharrell Williams, Puffy, Busta Rhymes, Ludacris, Kendrick Lamar, all performed
Every year I make plans to go to Essense Music Festival and every year something comes up. I need to just buy my tickets way in advance and let whatever comes up just deal with it this year
Fam, would be all over that show.
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, but we get a range of everyone...literally anyone you can think of has played here. We usually get the people that are rising up, and when they are coming down for the most part, but some artists will love to have intimate shows, along with private events that will book some superstar. we only hold 1.3k, but it's a very famous venue.
