Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Boston, 2002-08-23 (AUDIO), 10 songs

Paradise Rock Club. Most "infamous" Hope show ever, it could be titled "Hell in the Paradise." The show's been mentioned in interviews & articles over many years due to loud, rude heckling Hope suffered & Hope's vocal response to it & to sound problems that caused the band to exit the stage during the show while sound issues were to be fixed. 01 Lose Me On The Way 1:29 02 On The Low 11:44 03 Clear Day 17:30 04 Charlotte 27:08 (ends early + Hope complains + heckling) (At this point, the band reportedly exits the stage for a period while sound problems were to be fixed. The break was edited out of the recording) 05 Silver and Gold 31:54 [unreleased song] (Hope's voice isn't mic-ed for first lines she sings, + back & forth with the audience after the song + Hope exits stage while sound guys mic her glockenspiel. The break was edited out of the recording) 06 Around My Smile 42:38 07 Bavarian Fruit Bread 49:24 08 Suzanne 55:30 09 Friends Of A Smile 1:00:33 10 Louise [Acetone cover] 1:03:40 -The band played as an encore a cover of The Rolling Stones' "Play With Fire," but it didn't get recorded by the show's taper, so is missing here. Hope's version of "Play With Fire" from other 2002 shows can be heard here: https://youtu.be/RdhrNrdL9Hs and here: https://youtu.be/IiflvOXn0Yg Hope Sandoval: vocals, glockenspiel, harmonica Colm Ó Cíosóig: drums, backing vocals Nicole Presley: keyboards, backing vocals Mark Lightcap: guitar (Mark is otherwise Acetone's guitarist) Raymond Richards: guitar Al Browne: bass -The slide show contains no photos of the 2002 band on stage 'cause I only know of on stage pics of Hope's later Warm Inventions band from 2009 onward comprised of members of Dirt Blue Gene + Hope & Colm. Besides Hope & Colm, Al Browne (bass) is the only one who is in both the 2002 & later lineups of the Warm Inventions. Most photos of Hope here are by talented photographer Luz Gallardo. Hope's official website has a page of audience reviews & comments about this show contributed by attendees, here: http://www.hopesandoval.com/tour/2002/boston082302.shtml Several audience commenters wondered why security didn't throw out the hecklers.The following audience review I received privately from a member of dimeadozen.org live show torrent sharing site who attended this show helps explain the security lapse. QUOTE: "while i saw mazzy star a number of times early on, and on a couple of 'reunion' tours, i've only seen hope [Sandoval & TWI] once - the infamous boston paradise show - one of the top 3 weirdest concert experiences i've ever had...hope's exchanges with some feisty members of the audience in boston were incredibly bizarre. hope managed to chase out more than half the audience that night. most gave up and figured she wasn't going to return to the stage, or were so insulted by her comments that they bailed. "the '02 boston tape doesn't really capture the serious weirdness of the situation. hope definitely amped up the problems a lot - very uncool and i remember listening to her comments with disbelief. however the 3 people near the front who kept yelling 'f- you' were WAY out of control. i went to security and asked to have them tossed out. the comment from the bouncers (regarding hope) was, 'We heard what she said about the club, f- her' - they refused to do their job. it was extremely fortunate no-one started throwing things. i seem to remember the tape cuts off for a while, so you don't realise the band was gone from the stage for quite some time, which led to a fairly major exodus of the audience." -After the song "Charlotte" is stopped early, Hope voices complaints about "horrible feedback, trash sound, and everybody talking in the audience." Then some hecklers tell Hope to "go home," and swear at her. This starts a back and forth between Hope and the audience. Someone shouts to Hope "I love you." Hope responds, QUOTE: "I don't need you guys to love me, I just need you guys to shut the f*ck up." That comment by Hope has been cited as controversial in a number of interviews & articles in years following. But if you listen to the recording no one is heard booing or gasping after she says it, not even the hecklers. Instead we hear cheers and applause from the crowd after Hope's comment. In the context of the heckling, Hope's comment doesn't seem unreasonable. After the song "Silver and Gold," someone shouts out the question "Where are you from?" Hope doesn't answer. It's hard to hear clearly but then some guy in the audience shouts to Hope: "You're an asshole from 'Cisco." That's the comment that provokes Hope's reply. Also hard to hear clearly is someone else in the audience shouting at hecklers: "This is not your concert, this is Hope Sandoval's concert." Hope says in response "That's right." -Aside from the two sections of cringe-worthy talk content, and small degree of audible sound problems, this show is very listenable and well recorded. Hope performed well under such pressure!