Avril Lavigne - Starlight Theater Kansas City MO USA Audience July 22 2005

This a full show, HQ audience recording. The concert took place on the second leg of Avril's year-long world trek, the Bonez Tour to support her second album, 'Under My SKin.' This show is the second and last time that Avril's performed in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, and on this occasion it was at an outdoor venue.

This is clean aud, no distortion, with a bit of echo. It kicks in pretty clear by the second track. There is some talking here and there, along with some decent background singing, in the crowd. During the quiet acoustic number 'Tomorrow,' there is some audience talk in the background - hell, even Avril herself up on stage may have heard them - but Av carries on brilliantly like the star trooper she is. Overall I give the SQ a B+/A-. It is highly listenable and quite enjoyable. Don't miss this sustained, long-distance ear-kiss from our Miss Bliss.

The show itself is one-hell-of-a concert. Avril is in superb voice, sounds pumped, takes command and blasts off. The audience has a grand time, and you will surely too... Rocket!

Avril Lavigne Gets Her Amphitheater On:
2005 summer tour dates announced.
by IGN Music, 4.4.05

While she is currently trekking across the globe performing throughout the world, Avril Lavigne will touch ground on her home continent of North America and dive into a full-blown summer tour beginning in July.

The tour will also feature special guests Gavin DeGraw and Butch Walker and fans can expect not only new songs, but old gems, as well. Plus Ms. Lavigne will more than likely jump behind the drum kit, pound on the piano, and sing a few songs acoustically.

...by Young and Hopeless (w/ dates by bunny)...







The Starlight Theatre

From Wikipedia: The Starlight Theatre, is a 7,947-seat outdoor theater in Kansas City, MO. It is one of three remaining self-producing outdoor theaters in the U.S.

The Starlight Theatre stage has been legendary for being subject to the whims of weather, train whistles and animal noises from the nearby Kansas City Zoological Park. In 1956, Jeanette MacDonald collapsed in a production of 'The King and I.' Initial reports said she experienced heat prostration in the 90-degree heat but it was later determined to be a heart seizure. Garrison Keillor who has performed three times at the venue said the hottest show he ever had was one where the temperature at curtain was 110 degrees. A passing freight on nearby tracks blows about 9:20 p.m. each night. In 2000 the stage itself was enclosed in the 10-story, climate controlled Jeannette and Jerome Cohen Community Stage.

Avril Lavigne
July 22, 2005
Starlight Theatre
Kansas City, MO
Custom capsules > Sony MZ-N707, Church-Audio Preamp > Analog: M-Audio Delta 44 > Sound Forge > CD Wave Editor > FLAC [ > MP3]

Bec notes: One of my older MD recordings. Circulated once before, but not properly. Retransferred on February 28, 2008.
Set breaks removed.
Taper: bec@tbrn.net
[Downloaded from dimeadozen, 10.26.2009, by thewaymouth]

Setlist:
01. Sk8er Boi
02. Unwanted
03. My Happy Ending
04. I Always Get What I Want
05. Mobile
06. I'm with You
07. Fall to Pieces
08. Don't Tell Me
09. Together
10. Forgotten
11. Tomorrow
12. Nobody's Home
13. Who Knows
14. Losing Grip
15. Take Me Away
16. He Wasn't
17. All the Small Things
Encores:
18. Song 2*
19. Complicated
(*Av on drums)


twm: You have three options available: FLAC and two sets of mp3's. I recommend most the FLAC. But for those who can't handle the heavy, lossless truth, there are mp3 options available. There is a set of mp3's I found at a bitrate of 160 kbps, but I cannot verify the lineage/conversion. Plus, if I have to have lossy, I personally want a higher bitrate than that. Finally, I compared the FLAC and the 160 bitrate mp3s, and those mp3's to me are lacking oomph! So today just for you, I made my own conversion straight from my FLAC to 320 Kbps, my preferred mp3 rate. Sounds so much better!


FLAC
Size: 440 MB
(front & back cover as seen here, but in HQ wallpaper size)
c/o: Bec
Upload: thewaymouth

HQ MP3
Bitrate: 320 Kbps
Size: 153 MB
(covers included)
Converted & Checked & uploaded: thewaymouth

MP3
Bitrate: 160 kbps
Size: 75 MB
(covers included)
[Conversion details unknown]
Upload: thewaymouth

Bonus Pack
19 Medium to HQ Pics
Memorial Hall, KC MO, 1.15.03
[Note: no photos from the '05 KC show appear to be available online]
Size: 10 MB
c/o avrils-images + avrilrevolution
Upload: thewaymouth

Extra Bonus Pack
Geoff Barrenger Photoshoot (2005)
23 Ultra HQ Wallpaper Pics
Size: 24 MB
c/o: avax
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Avatar & Banners
Pics from St. Louis MO, 7.21.05 (the night before)
c/o avrilbandaids
Edited by thewaymouth

...From Barrenger Photoshoot - size here reduced.

From Memorial Hall, KC MO, 1.15.03 - size here reduced...



AV ALMIGHTY
Unlike Jesus, Avril Lavigne will live to prove her haters wrong

By Mike Seely and Ben Westhoff,
Riverfront Times, St. Louis, MO, Wednesday, July 20 2005
[twm note: The movie 'The Passion of the Christ,' the major blockbuster from Mel Gibson, had been released the year before, in 2004.]

Jesus had a lot of haters. Hence, his crucifixion. Avril Lavigne has a lot of haters, too. But fortunately for Lavigne, sounding awesome isn't a crime -- and crucifixion is viewed as cruel and unusual punishment nowadays.

Critical crucifixion, unfortunately, is not. So instead of doing a point-counterpoint on Av's strengths and weaknesses as a rock goddess, we decided to recruit the two most unabashed Avril fans on Delmar Boulevard, so that they might counteract the dark forces that seek to derail the otherwise unstoppable A-Train.

Mike Seely: There are but two absolutes in this cruel, cruel world: 1) Mary Magdalene was a whore with a penchant for bearded men in Birkenstocks and 2) Avril Lavigne isn't. The A-Train says as much on her smash hit single, "Don't Tell Me": "Did you think that I was gonna give it up to you, this ti-yee-i-yee-ime?" No, I didn't, which probably explains why I want to bend her over a radiator so badly.

If Av wanted to whore it up like Xtina, Titney Federline or Raven-Symone, the loins of America would stand at attention. But instead the A-Train's got an electric fence around the perimeter of her backyard -- thanks to her recent engagement to Sum 41's Deryck Whibley -- that makes us pine for her all the more.

But I digress. As far as Av's music goes, from the first verse of "Complicated," I've experienced a sonic force that I simply had not experienced before. The "twangst" and kitten-like palpitations in her voice make for three-minute carnival rides of emotion. She's the Knott's Fucking Berry Farm of post-adolescent power pop. Granted, "Sk8er Boy" was dog doo, but every other track on both of her albums is just ear candy, bro.

Ben Westhoff: While your allusion to Avril as the second coming of Christ makes more sense than anything this side of "My Happy Ending," there's a hole in your broader thesis wide enough to ram Mark Wahlberg's summer sausage through. "Sk8er Boi" -- there is an 'i' in 'boy,' don't forget -- was the horniest piece of pop-punk since Green Day's "Basket Case." Both songs inspired exurban high school chicks to go a couple bases further than they'd planned in their boyfriends' walk-in showers while high on pot. Booty-rawkin' is what rock's all about, which explains why Aerosmith gets you laid, the Beatles don't, and Yo La Tengo is strictly for the married and the castrated.

MS: I don't like Green Day at all. But this isn't about Green Day, it's about Av. Everyone called her a poseur, but look at the movement she's inspired since 'Let Go' debuted: Liz Phair booked Av's production team to cop her mojo, while Aguilera and Pink switched their sounds from snicker-lickin' bling to feminazi rawk. Moreover, the Olsen twins dress like heroin-addicted Dumpster divers, Hilary Duff and Kelly Clarkson now have something of an edge, and Jessica Simpson's little sister and Lindsay Hohan chose hot licks over samples on their respective (horrible) recording debuts.

That's an awful lot of followers for a poseur to have. Which brings us back to that Avril-as-Jesus analogy: Let's just say the sandal fits.

BW: Why that jerk James Caviezel got to play J.C. in that Passion movie is beyond me -- perhaps because they share the same initials, but that's all speculation. But the more I think about it, perhaps the Son of God is not the perfect Av-nalogy. Better to consider countrywoman and earthy-ish troubadour Alanis Morissette. Some have said that Avril is a cheap knockoff of Alanis, but that's like saying that the condom is a cheap knockoff of a swath of lamb-testicle skin tied on with twine. Morissette's songs lack the sexy edge of Av's (as does her figure), and the only reason I bring her up at all is that she played God in Kevin Smith's Dogma.

There is one key difference between Avril and God, however. Her fashion résumé includes making wristbands look hot and pioneering the tie/tank-top combo. God, by most accounts, doesn't even wear clothes.

MS: Jim Caviezel was my coach at Cougar Cage Camp in Pullman, Washington, when I was twelve years old. No bullshit. He was very slick and charismatic and reminded me of Tom Cruise. But if Avril Lavigne had a son, he would not look like Jimmy C. Similarly, if Avril Lavigne had a daughter, it would not look like Av's fellow Canuck, Ms. Morissette. Rather, the spawn of Lavigne would pop out of Av's womb drenched not in blood and uterus-goop, but in honey.

BW: Sadly, as a possessor of merely grade-A, earth-quality sperm, I'm out of the running to help produce any little Lavignes. Maybe she and her betrothed will need a wet nurse.

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FLAC 440MB 4 Parts
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HQ MP3, 320 kbps, 153MB
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Pics, KC MO 1.15.03, 10MB
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Shoot, Geoff Barrenger, 24MB
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Credits: bec, thewaymouth