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Beyond awesome show!! Dale Bozzio is practically the same since the 80's, with a beautiful deep tone to her voice, and knows how to ROCK!! I was definitely star struck by one of the biggest female icons of the 80's. The band was on point, and the sound was spectacular! I'm excited to see them again with Billy Idol and Culture Club at iHeart 80's festival in Feb.
Me and my friends are all in our early 20's, and we really enjoyed Missing Person's full performance from start to finish. Dale's voice is strong, raspy, and she hits all those 'Betty Boop' high notes she's known for. Every band member was phenomenal, with high energy that kept us dancing and bobbin our heads! All their songs rocked..there was never a dull moment!!
Gig at StillWater in Dana Point, CA on 7/5/13...waste of my hard-earned money. Dale and the band were a mess. I go out to a lot of live music and this was awful stuff. There are always some drunkards who want to dance to 80's songs so the bar was selling drinks; however, a decent 80's cover band would have done a much better job with the songs than MP did. I felt embarassed for all of them. Sad.
The tickets said 7 pm so we got there at 8pm thinking she would go on at 10pm. It's an 80's band. She's 57! Midnight? At least say that on the ticket or say something about 5 bands before her! Waste of money. At our age we are paying a babysitter or hoping our teenagers are not burning down our house. get a little in touch with the audience that actually remembers you!
Poor Dale Bozzio was released from the hospital that morning and we could tell she was sick. She seemed to suffer from a sore throat but still came to the show! She looks great and if she was not sick she would have sounded great too. The instruments drowned out her voice most of the time so the music was too loud. It would have probably been better if she had re-scheduled and if the amp was turned down some. The first two bands that opened for her sucked especially the 2nd band but the last two were pretty good. I believe they were called xcntric and ontario. The drinks were reasonably priced and the food was good.The booth we had constantly had people standing infront of it and there was a drunk guy that was harrassing us because we had to continually ask him to move so we could see. I did not like the fact that we had to share the booth with strangers (as it was their friend) who was not seated with us that kept harrassing us. The security came by a few times to shoo people on but ultimately not enough because it kept happening.
Ignoring the arrogance of Warren, Dale forgetting the lyrics to all their big hits, the guitar issues at the beginning of the show that caused a 15-20 min delay along w/Dale & Warren's rant w/the audience, I guess it was a decent show for those that stuck around to see it. Not how I would've liked to seen a show tabbed as a 30th anniversary show. Granted the sound & guitar issues might have been the club's fault, as Warren multiple times pointed out, but there's no excuse for Dale's inability to remember lyrics. How many times has she sung those songs before? Constantly looking to Warren to help her remember was pretty pathetic. Even Warren got annoyed when Dale went silent during the 1st verse of "Walking In LA". I thought he was going to walk off the stage again like he did during the opening song "Mental Hopscotch" when the whole guitar issue happened. It's too bad it had to go that way. Hopefully, they'll be other shows in the future so they can redeem themselves.
Saw Missing Persons at The Can in Garden Grove, CA tonight. First, the tickets said show starts at 6. Arrived at 7:00 not wanting to see the opener. The opener started at 7 anyways then they had about 7-8 bands each playing about 30 minutes before Missing Persons finally starting playing at 1 AM. The sound was horrible as they turned up the volume too loud. In addition, the guitar was over powering and couldn't really hear the other instruments. People in the audience was yelling during sound check that the guitar was over powering everything else. The guitarist appeared to be arrogant as he said that is the way it should be. Once Dale got on stage you couldn't hear her for the first 20-30 seconds as the vocal level was drowned out. They finally fixed it, but I wished they hadn't. Dale's voice was absolutely horrible. I couldn't bare any more and left just as the first song, Mental Hopscotch. This has to be the worst show I have seen in my life. Do yourself a favor, don't go to see this show.
I don't know how they get away with using images of the old band including Terry Bozzio when what was presented onstage was such a farce. Dale looked homeless. I read she was supposed to be the "original Lady Gaga" but she put forth no effort in costume, vocal or showmanship. The band looked disinterested from the downbeat and quit on the first song... literally just stopped playing. It felt and sounded like a rehearsal. Was there no sound check? Honestly, the Depeche Mode cover band that played before them was a lot more entertaining!
This was a great time! It was great to see Tommy Tutone and Gene Loves Jezebel, both doing acoustic sets and in excellent voice. Missing Persons sounded great, and their songs sound just as good today as they did then.
I did not know what to expect but Dale was better than ever! The band was tight, the music was relavant and makes me think Missing Persons should make a new album. Dales voice is so unique she blows all those chicks who imitate her (and think they are creating something new and edgy) out of the water.
Technically, the show should have been billed as "Dale Bozzio with a Missing Persons Cover Band" since Dale was the only original band member to perform (The last time I saw MP in concert, there were three original members on stage). This is not to detract from the band however. I'm a die hard MP fan, so I naturally enjoyed this show. Highlights: hearing any MP music performed live is a blast from the past; the hired band covered well and was a talented assortment musicians. Lowlights: Dale doesn't hit the "squeals" as high or as consistently as she did in her more formative years. She also seemed stand-offish (to use an MP term), standing most of the time away from the front of the stage and outside the spotlights. The venue, 4th and B, was a decent joint to see a small show such as this. The sound was fair to good. Drinks were medium to pricey. And the overall feel was divey, industrial. There were about 300 heads in the audience, whereas the club can accomodate up to 1200.
Sounded fresh, missed the tall high heels and nylons.opened with mental hopscotcth, which I was hoping they would of saved it for near the end. one of my favorites. My wife , 22 yr old son who is a drummer and guitarist and I sat at a higher table and had a great view. others were not as fortunate. We all enjoyed the kids "slatr" and "thorn" who played prior to missing persons. That was a bonus! The canyon club sometimes get a bad rap, because someone shows up late and couldn't see the stage because they were only 5'2". For what the entertainers charge, don't be cheap and reserve a table for the dinner and you can really enjoy the show instead of rubbing shoulders with some strangers
Pretty solid show considering that the band was at its height in the early 80s. Aside from Dale being a little disengaged from the audience and having a baseball cap on backwards, she still sounds as good as ever.
