Lauryn Hill in Oakland (July, 27th 2007)

[Moderator]

Everyone's entitled to their own opinions RootsObserver, and i respect that. I probobaly would be feeling the same if i was in your position, but i wasn't.

[truthis]

Here is some information from one of the band members:

A sold-out June 27 show at Oakland's Paramount Theatre by the once-fabulous Lauryn Hill also resulted in disaster. The $89.50 tickets listed a 7:30 p.m. start time, but Hill didn't appear until after 10 p.m. Things went downhill from there.

"Before we even stepped onstage, the audience was ready to riot," says a member of Hill's band. A long intro — which he describes as "eclectic, avant-garde" — left the KMEL-friendly crowd puzzled. Her voice "wasn't that strong," he says, and the soundman struggled with mixing the 16-piece outfit.

The low point came when Hill toppled off her high heels.

"It was a hard fall. She fell straight on her back," the musician says, insisting that Hill wasn't under the influence of drugs or alcohol. "When she fell down, there was a rug on stage ... she slipped on that."

The end of the concert, he claims, was better than the beginning, yet the majority of the crowd was gone by that time. "That'll be one of the shows I'll remember for the rest of my life," the musician says, noting that Hill's entire band hails from the Bay Area — which made the highly critical reviews of that show even harder to stomach.

www.sfweekly.com/2007-10-03/music/mf-doom-echoes-of-lauryn-hill/