“so long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning” Aaron Copland - Seattle on the wall in front of the triple door.

Seattle, wall in front of the Triple Door
Updated daily:
For FAVORITE AUDIO: Soiled Dove, Denver CO; all the little details, highs and lows of her voice, guitars, base, drums, piano, keybord, were perfectly clear!
For BEST ENCORE CHANTING: The Roxy, LA - After Elisa finished her set, crowd wanted her for an encore “ole, ole, oleee, oleee, olee“…San Siro style!! Awesome
For FAVORITE STAGE: The Triple Door, Seattle WA; nice lighting, big stage, a lot of place to move!
For FAVORITE OVERALL VISUAL: Soiled Dove, Denver CO; the place looked like Santa Claus’s house, with little Christmas lights all over, wonderful seating, beautiful stage!
For VENUE WITH most CHARACTER: Cafe du Nord, San Francisco CA; built in 1906, words are that it’s haunted.

- me at Cafe du Nord, SF
For FAVORITE iPOD LIBRARY SHUFFLE: Portland OR; - Max on his laptop, never let us hear a song fromthe beginning to the end, it was more like a scan then a shuffle!!! LOL
For FAVORITE I FEEL IMPORTANT moment: Me and Steve being chauffeured by personal driver named Sam on the streets of Salt Lake City from the hotel to the venue for sound check, back to hotel, back to venue and he also called us to make sure we were alright and what would be a good time to pick us up after the show. Car: big black suv, maybe a lincoln, maybe an escalade, maybe a gmc yukon, tinted window!…rock ‘n roll!!
For MOST CRAZY FANS: Bar Deluxe, Salt Lake City UT

- Entrance of Bar Deluxe, SLC
For QUOTE OF THE DAY: The Triple Door, Seattle WA - Me: ” CuRRRRRRe me CuRRRRe me” Max: “eh it’s a catchy tune” Me: “Not only it’s catchy but cure is the only word where I can roll my R, and even then I still cannot say it right” Max, Elisa, Ringo: “ti te son schoppada! (you’re a weirdo/out of this world/crazy)”
For STRANGEST WAY TO LISTEN TO ELISA’S CONCERT: Toronto, Montreal - since I wasn’t able to attend those two concert, I had a nice 20 minutes of it over the phone with LabDaddy…his phone bill says: Thank you! LOL [edit: It may have been cheaper if I had just flown her out for the concerts! -- LabDaddy]
For MOST INTO it CROWD: The Roxy, Los Angeles CA

- The crowd…and Steve taking pics, LA
For VENUE WITH the MOST INTERESTING SURROUNDING: Bar Deluxe, Salt Lake City - next to the club there was a tattoo joint and a radio shack, in front of the club a pawn shop, next to it a loan office and an Homeless Youth outreach office….lallalllalallala! [edit: and at least one member of the entourage got a tattoo! -- LabDaddy]
For FAVORITE PLAYED SET: The Triple Door, Seattle WA
For MOST CROWDED (in small place): The Great Scott, Boston MA;…one word: SWEATY!
For MOST FUN BACKSTAGE: The Belly Up, San Diego CA
For MOST “WEIRD” OPENING ACT: Cafe du Nord, San Francisco CA (opening act by Anya Marina) - still wondering if I was watching a concert or a stand up comedy act!

- Anya Marina…telling a joke, SF
For BIGGEST VENUE (capacity: 600): The Belly Up, San Diego CA
For FAVORITE NOT SO “SNEAKY” MOMENT: The Triple Door, SE - Elisa having a conversation with Ari in english about music, me, in italian, asking Elisa to find out how old is he…Elisa: ” You know in Italy I’m kinda big, very different from here I play in big arenas and, by the way, how old are you?” - Very sneaky Elisa!! LOL (thank you though XO)

- Belly Up -pre show- SD
For FAVORITE VENUE (looks, location, food, backstage, pre concert, post concert): tie between The Doug Fir, Portland OR and The Triple Door, Seattle WA
For “THIS ONE MADE ME CRY“: Dancing at Triple Door, Seattle WA
For MOST FEELING USELESS MOMENT: The Roxy, Los Angeles CA up until the post concert moment that made up for the entire evening! LOL

- Lacey Schwimmer, Elisa LA
For MOST UNEXPECTED THING I’VE DONE: Cafe du Nord, San Francisco CA, never imagined I would walk out for a cigarette break and air while Elisa was performing on stage. [edit: Yeah, me too. I was out smoking and when I turned and saw you, it was like -- WTF? Both of us?? lol -- LabDaddy]
For FAVORITE PARKING SPOT: the Belly Up, San Diego; The limit for the public park was 4 hours, and me and Steve needed a lot more time then that, so with totally nonchalance, we belong here kinda feeling, we drove in the back, parked right behind their tour bus, management came, he assumed right away that we were part of the band and closed the gates to avoid “strangers” to come and park there! talking about “special treatment” LOL

- Haran, me and Corrado outside Cafe du Nord, pre-concert.
For QUOTE OF THE DAY: Soiled Dove, Denver CO…Mauri told me: “ I noticed in Boston that you don’t give a *beep* about the concert! So I was thinking if you can handle my camcorder for the next shows“
For FAVORITE SING ALONG: The Great Scott, Boston MA (Gli ostacoli del cuore, made me cry…)
For FAVORITE “SCARED AWAY MOMENT“: Doug Fir, Portland OR - After Elisa and her band finished their set, I went back in the green room, and there were a few guys standing, from a band called Rosebuds, they were schedule to perform after Elisa, and one of them said: “OMG, what do we do now? How can we play after her?“Â - Oh yes, Elisa scared them away!!! YAY
For QUOTE OF THE DAY: The Great Scott, Boston MA - Steve: ” so Eric, you’re all traveling by bus, do you have bunk beds, where do you sleep? ” Eric: “ I sleep in the Uhaul trailer!”

- Eric and Steve, in SLC next to Eric’s …room!
For WORST CAR RIDE: Seattle Airport to Holiday Inn, the driver was on something…bad trip! bad trip!
For FAVORITE BACKGROUND VOCALS perfomance by Ringo and Max: The Belly Up, San Diego CA “I bleed but I’m chosing you again, I’m done but I’m ready to begin, so I come back home to you“
For QUOTE OF THE DAY: Cafe du Nord, San Francisco CA - Mauri: ” the speakers and the audio consoles are worse then the ones I had for my nieces and nephews on their b-day parties“

- Mauri at Bar Deluxe, SLC
For FAVORITE WUTHERING HEIGHTS performance: The Belly Up, San Diego CA - post concert, a duet! Welcome to the ZELIG (Italian cabaret/stand up comedy show!), Elisa and Steve!!!
For FAVORITE TRAVELING PARTNERs: On the road, Red Bull and Doritos….ROTFL!!!!! [edit: Thanks a lot, Del-z! :p --LabDaddy] [edit: lol...BWUAAAAUAUA - Del-z] [edit: Fine, be that way! Then don't forget your cellphone!! *bink*!! :P -- LabDaddy]

- Me and Max in Portland
For FAVORITE CATCH PHRASE: On the road: “Te ga mai bevu?”;
For FAVORITE SOUND CHECK MOMENT: Bar Deluxe, Salt Lake City - Elisa singing “river” by Joni Mitchell…with the megaphone too!!!
For FAVORITE UNOFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHY: The Roxy, Los Angeles CA - Gabriele!!!!!!!!! Rock ‘n roll! - 6 attempts to take one pic, 4 came out black!!!!!…”te ga mai bevu?”

- Me, Elisa, Steve
For FAVORITE DRUMS SOLO: Soiled Dove, Denver CO - beginning of Rainbow, solo by Andrea Fontana when Max and Ringo were accidentally left unplugged!
For FAVORITE ITANGLISH moment: Bar Deluxe, Salt Lake City UT - Elisa: “ciao a tutti, welcome everybody, come va?… state bene? …me too“
For FAVORITE TAKING OVER THE BAR moment: Any venue, Ringo in “A little over zero”, “Mad World”, “It is what it is”…my overall favorite will come after I re-play all the audios! Any venue, Max in “A little over zero” “Luce”…there will be an overall favorite here too!

- Ringo, The Roxy
For FAVORITE STAND UP: The Roxy, Los Angeles CA - Lacey Schwimmer on the notes of “Dancing”
For FAVORITE WARDROBE MALFUNCTION: The Roxy, Los Angeles CA - Elisa’s pants…during “A little over zero” “it is what it is” and “cure me”…some things should be left to the imagination only!!!
For MOST WEIRD HOTEL: The Grafton, Los Angeles, Sunset Blvd.

- Grafton hotel room, LA
For ELISA DID IT TOO: The Triple Door, Seattle: I was telling Elisa what kind of hotel we ended up in Los Angeles, I showed her this pic and she goes: “noooooooooooooooo!!! I stayed in the same hotel last summer, on top of my bed there was I picture of a woman wearing fishnet stocking!…that hotel is funky!”
For IT HAPPENED AT EVERY SHOW: Audience shouting ” Elisa!!!! Sing one in italian, una in italiano Elisa!!! canta in italiano! LUCEeee!”
For FAVORITE ELISA’s CRAZY MOMENT: Bar Deluxe, Salt Lake City UT. ” IH IH….HEWHAW” right before performing “a Little over zero”.
For FAVORITE CROWD EXCITEMENT: Belly Up, San Diego CA, “oh Lord won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz..”..crowd went C.R.A.Z.Y.
For I CAN FINALLY SEE BALLARIN AND FONTANA: The Triple Door, Seattle WA

- Luchi! Seattle
For FAVORITE PRE MEET AND GREET moment: Belly Up, San Diego CA - Elisa after she took a sip of Corona - Elisa:” I’ll be there in 10 minutes” Gabriele:”make it 5” Me: “she’ll be there in 7 minutes!” Elisa: “like in The Ring!!” Me: “no…that one was 7 days“…Elisa: ” I can’t drink anymore!”
For MOST AKWARD moment (for me): The Triple Door, Seattle WA - Following Ari Hest in his dressing room, found out he was locked out and we got stuck with Elisa and Co. in their green room
For FAVORITE MEAL: The triple Door, Seattle; Potstickers!!! The best!
For FAVORITE ELISA’s on STAGE QUOTE: Soiled Dove, Denver CO; “Elisa sing Eppure Sentire!” ” I don’t know how to play the song you’ve requested with the guitar by myself, I know another…a few others“
For QUOTE OF THE DAY: The Belly Up, San Diego CA - Me: “Toffoli, I thought I would get sick and tired of listening to you playing the same set every night…no offense eh..” Elisa: ” No, I know what you’re saying, I probably would too” Me: “but instead I’m enjoying every single night ’cause there is not one performance same as the other you sing it differently and the guys plays differently” Elisa: ” OMG, Thank you so much” (this conversation happened in Italian and in our dialect, so it doesn’t sound much funny in english..sorry..)
For FAVORITE OUTFIT wore by Max: The Triple Door, Seattle WA - pre concert, green room - Bright yellow polo shirt with stripes across his chest! Elisa: “Max please take off that shirt! It’s blinding me!” Ringo: ” in the dark we can use u as flash light” [edit: and LabDaddy sang: "Then...comes the sun...comes the sun... - LabDaddy]

- Max wearing the blinding shirt, Portland

For MOST USED LYRICS not during a concert: On the road, “out on the winding, windy moors we’d roll and fall in green…I hated you, I HATED YOU TOO but then I loved you too“
[Edit:For 2ND MOST USED LYRICS not during a concert: "Currrrre Me! Currrrrrrre Me!" --LabDaddy]
For SONG STUCK IN OUR HEAD: On the road; Akon - Right now (na na na)
For MOST USED GOOD MORNING WORDS: On the road; ” Theeeeeeeeeeen, comes the suuuuuuun, comes the suuuuuun“
[edit: For 2ND MOST USED GOOD MORNING WORDS: On the road: "On the road again / I can't wait to be on the road again!" --LabDaddy]
For NEVER A DULL MOMENT: The Great Scott, Boston MA - Elisa looping for Mercedes Benz - Me: “Steve who’s doing oooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhh ooooooooooooohhhhhhhhh” Steve: “That’s Elisa! you Idiot!”
For YOU KNOW THE SET LIST BY HEART moment: From Los Angeles on - moving with the camcorder and the cameras, two seconds before you know what’s gonna happen, what the guys will do and where will they move on the stage.
For FAVORITE INTRODUCTION: The Roxy, Los Angeles CA - Voice from the dj boot ” Ladies and gentlemens, please welcome, ELISA” Audience went nuts!!!!
For FAVORITE ELISA’s VOCALS (”woof” a couple of times): The Roxy, Los Angeles CA - From Rainbow to Cure me her voice gave you chills!!
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