It’s release day for David Cook’s debut post-idol album David Cook, and in celebration of the event, David performed an intimate concert at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York City tonight for 300+ fans who waited in line this morning for wristbands at the Virgin Megastore in Times Square.
Set list, media, recaps and photos of the big night follow.
Update: - Watch this space - I’m updating with new stuff as I find it. I just posted a whole bunch of wire image photos, after the JUMP…
Set List:
- “Heroes”
- “Mr. Sensitive”
- “Declaration”
- “Lie”
- “Life on The Moon”
- “Bar-Ba-Sol”
Encore
- “Little Lies”
- “Light On”
Media and stuff
- Check out this recap from the album thread. David Wright was there. So was Cook’s mom. When David found out his album made it to #1 on iTunes he teared up.
- Rickey was at the show tonight, and has a stream running on his TV thingee
- Video of “Little Lies”
- “Little Lies” - Good quality
- Declaration
- “Lie” - great quality
- Mr. Sensitive, Barbasol, Life on the Moon, Intro and Heroes - good quality
Photos, recap after the JUMP…
Wire Image photos:
I just heard from a fan who was there, and here are a few of her notes on what went down at the Hard Rock tonight:
David kicked off the show saying, “This is a lot more people than came to my last CD release, I can tell you that much,” The set list included seven tracks from the new record — and a cover version of Fleetwood Mac’s 1987 hit “Little Lies.”
David, wearing a red button down shirt, tie, black vest and black pants, took the stage to the strains of JAY-Z’s “99 Problems.” He thanked his fans and told them that performing a concert on the same day his first major-label CD came out was a dream come true. He added that he felt like, “one of the luckiest men in the world.”
He seemed thrilled when he told the audience that the album was already #2 on the overall iTunes chart, and #2 on the rock iTunes chart.
As of 11:18 ET, the record is #1 on iTunes!
The fans already knew the words to the new songs, singing along, and even sang an entire chorus to “Light On” by themselves. David worked the small room, throwing picks into the audience, and shaking hands with the front row. It appeared to be a virtual love fest between David and the audience. He joked, “To quote Christine Aguilera, it keeps getting better.”
David and the band sounded great, not pitchy, particularly on the difficult-to-sing “Light On”.
Actually, he asked the crowd what they thought the album would be on the charts and they yelled by “number one”. He said that was all that mattered to him (that the fans thought it was number one). Then he went on to say that actually it was number 2 overall and number 1 on the rock charts. He looked so pleased and happy. Later while signing autographs someone told him that the CD was now number 1 overall as well as number 1 on the rock charts and he was so emotional he had to leave the table. There is a reason that I love this guy so much and I think it has to do with the fact that he does indeed wear his heart on his sleeve.
Declaration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSKHWkid6Yo
I just love how David’s promotions are all about performing. Twice at HRC(well that’s a coincidence but still), WPLJ(the best LO you say? I’m still waiting, hopefully somebody recorded it) AMA, even ET… That’s his strength.
Light On is outstanding on the CD. I thought he performed it well on Good Morning America yesterday better than I have heard it live before. Leno was better than SNL. It seems every performance gets better than the one before, but it is a bear to sing live. Overlapping tracks that doesn’t give him a chance to catch his breathe. So many good songs on this CD. I was hoping he might sing something else at the AMAs. Do we know it is going to be Light On? I hope they release more singles soon.
I’ve got my fingers crossed for an mp3 of the WPLJ LO. Well, my toes are crossed as well.
DCTR is #1 in both itunes and amazon. I know that it’s only one day, and that there are other venues for buying CDs, but still: the record looks damn good sittiing at the top of those charts. That’s all I’m saying.
Most of the songs are charting on the amazon top 100. All of the album tracks other than Mr. Sensitive are charting in the top 100 rock songs on itunes. LO (the single) is #56, Declaration is #76, and Permanent is #107 on the itunes songs chart (all genres). Odds are that Come Back to Me is close to the top 120—it’s barely behind Permanent on the rock chart.
Wire Image
Getty
Look at that face!
WPLJ will likely put up a video of David’s acoustic performance of LO from today (I think Taylor Swift was there very recently and there are vids on the station website of her performing 2 songs. Maybe David did more than one?). I caught the first 30 seconds of it and it did sound great. He mellowed it out and didn’t go for the high “make me stay” Unfortunately, he started singing right as my husband arrived from the airport with my mother-in-law…
I think I remember reading that David will sing two songs on the AMA pre-show.
I really need to go to bed and I also really need to see tonight’s “Lie” video.
Here’s a “Little Lies” vid with great audio.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLL3cvb-vus
ETA: Cool! Thanks Trina. I wasn’t expecting professional photos from tonight.
DC really looks like he’s having SO MUCH FUN in those videos. Declaration, Heroes… He’s just enjoying the heck out of the whole thing. Was the performance before or after he found out he was #1 at iTunes?
Before. When he was onstage he only knew he was #2 overall on iTunes and #1 in Rock.
Well, he looks really happy to be #2. Imagine the euphoria of the performance if he’d known then he was #1!
I know! Although he may have teared up then. Someone, Trina I think?, said they saw when a fan told him about being #1 and he stepped away from the table because he got too emotional. I love how he wears his heart on his sleeve.
It was great that David Wright came to support Cookie. One cool fact about them, they were born on the same day. Maybe now Cookie’s baseball love makes a whole lotta sense.
I admit that I cried when I found out that David was #1 on both iTunes and Amazon. I started the day fearing the worse (well, I’m a pessimist) and I’m finishing it with the biggest smile and tears of joy for this humble, awesome, talented guy.
No matter what, I’m proud to call myself a fan of his and to know I had a small part in getting him to the top today.
Wait a minute, what’s Kyle wearing? I need videos…
Thanks for all the media! I’m posting it all out front.
#1, #1!!! America, you crazy, fickle b*tch, you remembered him and you came through :D
(Now let’s keep it up for a few days, eh?)
I am so happy for David! What a wonderful day for him! He just touches your heart. What a sweet guy!
To the MOON David!!!
David Cook for TMFW!!!!!
A friend of mine (who’s not even a Cook fan *howls!*) got to go to this gig since she knows somebody who knows somebody at HRC and promised to keep me up to speed during the concert. After waiting and waiting, and multiple ‘what’s going ons?’ from me, she texts back:
“ur seekrit bf is my seekrit bf now, haha! he’s fantastic!”
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrggghhhhhhhhh! I sooooooooooo hate her now!
Where does Cookie go from here? To the heavens…..
I was just reading over at Word Nerd Home that DC had a crazed stalker tonight. Security Please protect our Cookie!!! Scary stuff that!
http://wordnerds.omgforum.net/david-discussion-f4/virgin-megastore-camp-out-planning-for-tkts-to-intimate-concert-11-18-t6143-425.htm
Yeah, that would be annoying as hell, daenarys. But as long as she buys a copy of the CD, I vote that you forgive her.
Folkfan, without any effort on my part, She DID! She can’t stop blathering on about that party, I was torn between laffing and telling her to shut up. We got into a “I got to know him first” “no, I was at his cd debut party” kerfuffle which we settled by agreeing to co-host a DC cookiefication party this friday. Woo!
That crazy stalker thing is really skeery…..one of the best things about David is how warm and accessible he is to people, whether fans or non-fans. I hope he can maintain this, but at the same time am worried that this can make him approachable to the crazies. Please let there be enough people around to watch over him.
Found these on Youtube:
A good video of Lie
Sounds great
Mr. Sensitive
Bar-Ba-Sol
Life On The Moon
intro and Heroes
I can’t believe Neal did a “heart” sign, LMAO…
99 Problems, nice.
ShariG - Thank you so much for that story. It made me emotional too!
I was at the GALA and his live performances are just incredible. He was born to do this!
By the way, I can’t stop listening to the record… over and over. Every new song that comes on, I think “Okay, THIS is my favorite.”
It just keeps getting better!
Thank you so much for these videos, leome! I love how devoted the fans are, and how after each show we get to experience the whole thing even if we live very far away from NYC.
Also, I’m still not off of the clouds. I hope I don’t have to come down for a long long time.
I love this guy so much. He is such a mensch. The album has me entranced. I cannot stop playing it over and over again. I know all the words and when Bar ba Sol starts I get up and dance no matter who is there.
Good concert. They are starting to come together, and on Bar-Ba-Sol they feel like a proper rock band. Interesting to watch them performing Little Lies, although I think Go Your Own Way might be a better Fleetwood Mac song choice (and I think he would have sounded great singing “Dreams”). Little Lies has too much of the echo of his own song Lie, but perhaps that’s the reason he chose the song.
I couldn’t say enough about that. He really does wear his heart on his sleeve and you just want to hug him. It helps that he is a really nice guy and down to earth and easy on the eyes. He is so incredibly talented and watching him perform puts him in a totally different league. I am so happy for him and he comes alive in front of an audience. This is what separates a good singer/musician when they have that chemistry with the audience. I can hardly wait to go to one of his concerts. That would be electric!
