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To: Mannie who wrote (26918)	6/18/2003 7:30:54 AM
From: altair19	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 104216

Scooter Aretha was simply amazing. She performed at the Fleet Pavilion which is a semi permanent tent structure right on the waterfront in downtown Boston. It was a beautiful sunny evening (rare these days)and a couple thousand people were there....all ages, flavors etc. She has a 30-40 piece band with three back up singers and six young dancers. She has no front band...only her. After her band warmed everyone up with a medley of her hits...(did I mention how tight the band was?) out came the QUEEN OF SOUL. I heard her back in 1966 at the Regal Theatre in Chicago so this was a personal reunion........she was just amazing, ....she can rock it....blues...gospel...classical (Handel)and torch songs. R-E-S-P-E-C-T simply brought the house down....there were only two songs where people weren't standing and groovin. She sang a very torchy "If Ever I Would Leave You"...I swear she looked right at me...maybe she could see the tears in my eyes. She blew the place a part with "The House That Jack Built". She also did a gospel song (don't know the name) where she began at the piano all by herself very slowly and so soulfully....kept building it up...and then reached out all by herself and GRABBED TWO THOUSAND PEOPLE AND SWEPT THEM AWAY!!!!!! It was breathtaking...the song went for at least 15 minutes with her band and back up singer joining her and leading the show to the end. During the last chorus, she slowly walked off stage carrying her flowers....everyone knew they had seen something very powerful and deeply soulful. After people kept clapping and standing on chairs, she came back out to continue the chorus until it finally ended in a dramatic finish. Everyone knew it had to end and realized they had seen a piece of history. It was so pure and so deep. I'm still smiling. "What chu...want....you know I got it".... She was right. Altair19