Concert Review: Miranda Lambert @ Busch Gardens, Tampa

That dude’s mohawk drives me nuts. It just screams “I may be in a country band but I swear I’m still cool!”

WOW…OUCH!! I can’t imagine not having a BLAST at a RAN show. Sorry that you were let down, but I have never been disappointed by Miranda. She is always bursting with energy that seems to leak into the crowd. ROCK ON!!

I think that this review is completely off the mark. The GREAT thing about Miranda is that she can be herself and loves what she does. MANY people LOVE that about her. She is an amazing performer, and keeps the crowd entertained the entire concert. I completely disagree with her band being ‘uninterested’ as well. I mean, how much moving around can you do with a guitar strapped to your back. It really doesn’t seem to matter though, because HAD they actually moved around, this guy wouldn’t have classified them as a ‘country act’ anyways, he made this clear when he criticized her “head-banging”

listen here you bastard, miranda totally rocks, she is the best country singer in the eyes and hearts of many people. what is it with you florida people? but i wished i hadn’t read this because you are a bitter person.

Highly disagree. Miranda is fabulous on stage, and one of the few artists out there that will sing about real things and plays REAL music. Seems that the author of this article just needs excuses to say, and only focuses on the negative. Are you forgetting the fact that Miranda writes her own music and expresses herself in her own way in her shows? She doesn’t follow the leader and do what everybody else does, and it’s a shame that you can’t accept it. As for Aden, another sign of individuality. He doesn’t play his heart out on stage just to be up there. He’s not decoration. Every man in that band has the potential of playing an outstanding show, and they do. They live for this kind of stuff. I suppose you weren’t around after the show either when they all came out to spend time with the fans. A real band would hang out with their fans, because they know it’s what we want, and they’re gracious enough to do so. This article is just a big nasty opinion. Negative and opinionated articles are far from professional.

your problems are not miranda or her band, its because your d*ck is to small. what? do you think you can do a better job. in my opinion, you dont have the balls to do all the hard work miranda and the band does, im sorry i sound harsh, but when you mess with miranda then your going to haft to mess with all her fans as well because we all love her.

god bless.

“That dude’s mohawk drives me nuts. It just screams “I may be in a country band but I swear I’m still cool!””

What did Gabe Witcher’s mohawk scream? Megan McCormick’s?

Here’s what Jerry Douglas told me a few years ago about the first time he met Gabe (who was mohawked up at the time), at the beginning of a tour he’d hired him for sight unseen:

“…we flew into San Francisco, got on a bus and met Gabe in Sacramento, which was close to the first show. None of us had ever seen him before, and it was funny, because we were looking out the window of the bus as it pulled up, and there was a guy sitting on the bench outside there, he’s got a fiddle case and suitcase, and Sam [Bush] said, is that him? Because he had green hair, and a sort of pierced eyebrow. Actually, what Sam said was, is that the little son of a bitch? And I said Sam, you used to be the little son of a bitch, so lay off him and let’s see what he’s like.”

by the way, i LOVE the mohawk. It makes Aden, well, Aden. He wouldn’t be the same without the ‘hawk!

Dear Die-Hard-Fans of “You-name-them”,

I’m so fed up and tired with your obsessed unreasonable fan-atics.

It is unbelievable when you constantly laud an artist (or author or whoever) as marvellous and perfect. Artists have good and bad days. And somewhere between good and bad and neutral reviews you get an impression if you might like the music or not. Some like chocolate some vanilla, so what?

The more fervent and maniacal you defend the less likely I am inclined to believe you I simply think: uh, if she needs that much defending she’s not worth it. you also harm your favorite artist if you don’t give them an honest response to how you receive their music or performance.you put off others by your fan-atism.

Do you think it makes you a better person showing blind loyalty to some artist? I’m sure there are plenty of occasions in your personal life where you could actually show that you are a better person – but making the effort in the real world with people you have to interact with each and every day is certainly not as easy as posting a few words on a message board.

Do you all drool on yourselves when in Miranda’s presence?

No–I’m too perfect to drool.

If I didn’t get out much, as is your implication, wouldn’t I be MORE likely to find whatever show I happened upon to be the “best thing ever?” I mean, after all, after sitting around the house in my PJs eating Doritos and play World of Warcraft for seventeen days strait…

Maybe the problem is that I get out too much and see too many shows to be overly excited about one that is average.

Mr. Malec, Unfortunately I disagree once again with what you have said. I think it’s very sophomoric that you would be as unprofessional as you have been. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. However; your opinion is direct criticism towards Miranda and the band. Miranda has always given a great performance. She’s more than an entertainer. She’s talented vocally and writes her own music, but that’s not the point. There is a lot to be factored when it comes down to reviewing an artist’s performance. You totally avoided the many positive aspects of the performance and criticized, instead!

I’d also just like to clear up a few bits of incorrect information:

1) I am not from Texas, nor have I ever resided in Texas.
2) I did not flunk out of junior high band. (I was much too cool for band.)
3) Since I’m such an incapable songwriter, I suppose you would prefer not to join me for a nice steak dinner when my royalty check comes next cycle?

“…it struck me that Lambert is one of the few artists to emerge this decade who not only has a firm grasp on the direction of her career, but also the talent to achieve whatever goals she sets for herself.”

Jim – I completely agree with that statement, but like you I was mixed on her live show. I reviewed her much the same way.

When I saw her she similarly had to admonish the audience for lack of participation. Part of that may have been lack of radio exposure and a lot of sing-a-long songs, but part of it was definitely how she arranged the songs. I saw her with Blake Shelton and the audience reaction was vastly different for him, so it definitely wasn’t the audience.

Lily, you said it best; hopefully they can swallow their bile (I’m looking at you Richard) and take something from your eloquent post.

I like Miranda’s music a lot but that doesn’t mean the sun shines out of her posterior.

Thanks, Vicky and Peter

I think I’ll clear things up a bit to the “fans” and maybe some take the following to heart.

What actually started me to comment – what I rarely do – is that the same extreme behavior is spreading at amazon too (authors in this case and I agree with you Kim, the females seem to aquire a more polarized audience).

There is good and bad in every positive and negative review.

Someone might cheer a record as influenced with reggae. i rarely care for reggae. but if someone criticizes a reggae record beeing heavily influenced by countrymusic that’s sure to get me curious.

So a negative review can be as much an enticement to buy something as a positive unrealistic one can make me so angry that I will not ever waste my money on this artist/author/whoever again, period.

Do you really listen exclusively to this one artist and never look for anyone else?

Aren’t you grateful if folks – like here at 9513 or C.Universe, California, etc. – give you an impression of what to expect? Their opinions and tastes are as varied and valid as you people out there.

Nowadays we have to struggle against so many things: economics, war, diseases, extremism and decisions are shoved down our throats. The only freedom we retain is to swallow or suffocate.

So please let us at least enjoy artistry in all it’s variety of our own free will – and taste!

Hey Richard instead of using foul words clean up your act. Yes I love Miranda but I don’t need to say nasty things just because someone doesn’t agree with us.. I’ve always had a GREAT time at her concerts. So please clean up the potty mouth. Jean

Peter, its not that he gave constructive criticism its the “yawn” comment and other little things he said..thats not objective, thats being rude. I was there and it was by no means boring or out of control, it was really good. I’m not about to say Miranda’s perfect or the best singer alive or cant improve..that would be ignorant. Jim just has something against Miranda, i wish somebody else on here would have reviewed it.

Whoa, Amanda, what the heck did she do to you? It sounds personal.