Ooc; good call. I'll get onto that later

OOC: Ready to see who won what.

INTRO

A slow-paced theater style instrumentation can be heard, slowly rising and starting to ring through everyone's ears. It begins with a simple piano pattern, from there a gentle touch of percussion made by barely touching cymbals is barely audible but have a presence. A string of lights, about a trio of brightly lite ones coming from above, and various others seen coming from the surroundings of the stage are seen. It's seen now that multiple slick clear white curtains are hanging from roof of the arena, down onto the floor of the stage. With about twenty seconds passing of the same instrumental sound, an acoustic guitar arises, playing a very latin-inspired guitar riff. Not much time passes from there that a drum machine pattern is added along to the instrumental intro. More lights appear now, at this point Ryan Ross Hernandez is visible for the first time to the audience playing the acoustic riff heard on a classical nylon string guitar, sitting on a curved stairwell placed on stage behind the slick curtains. He is very much sharply dressed, more so than he usually is on stage, wearing a complete black suit with black boots and a black fedora, almost dressed as if he were going to a funeral. The audience receives the sight of Hernandez in cheer and applause. Now in between the slick white curtains, a trio of ballerinas dressed in all black outfits are shown swiftly dancing around the curtains along to the pace of Ryan's guitar playing. A microphone stand is lowered and set perfectly right in front of where Ryan is sitting, probably indicating that it wouldn't be a complete instrumental intro to his performance.



All the while he is singing in a falsetto voice tone. He continues to play the guitar riff, along with the same instrumentation continuously heard behind it all. By the end of his singing, the ballerinas are wrapped around the slick white curtains, all the three are off their feet. Just a few seconds pass and Ryan suddenly stops playing the riff the light that was shining on him dims, along with every other instrument heard following in fashion also ending their run, every instrument except the drum machine pattern that continues. The ballerinas swiftly let themselves go from the curtains and theatrically fall on to the stage on their feet. When the drum pattern ends, all three of the ballerinas fall onto their knees as the lights go out.

HOLLYWOOD HILLS ASSASSIN

Not much time of peacefulness silence from the stage is enjoyed, Ryan Ross Hernandez and company not wasting anytime. Just thirty seconds perhaps pass before the lights rise on stage again. Now Ryan's full backing band is seen on stage, along with what looks like an all-female choir standing all on each step of the curved stairwell still on stage, the same one Ryan was sitting on earlier. Ryan currently has his back turned to the audience as his band gets ready. He gets the okay signal from all and turns around to face the audience with a sly smirk displayed on the corner of his lips, he says, "Good evening," in a calm and cool tone as the crowd cheers. The lights lower in brightness again, but a red light shines where Ryan is standing. "If you think you're gonna make it through without a scratch on you. If you think the last man standing does not have dirt on him. You've never been in a war." he continues in a slightly deeper voice than his usual speaking voice. "This is a story about how I lost it all." When he finishes his little melodramatic intro to the coming song, he turns around again and tosses the fedora he was wearing to the side.

The song slowly starts off the ground with bells slightly dissonant xylophones percolate uneasily against a moody melody, softy tapped drums and what sounds like Peruvian rainsticks. Hernandez grabs the microphone and lets his guitar hang from his back. The stage starts to rise platforms as his band plays perfectly on beat behind him. For the first time in his performance, the large back screen is used, showing different scenes of city skylines and car passing intersections, to more intense scenes as a couple foreplaying in a bedroom, depending on what notes Ryan hits and his band plays behind him it changes. Ryan starts to walk around the rising platforms, where instead of standing behind his stand and also playing his soulful guitar riffs, he only has to focus on singing. At the chorus point, the choir is finally used incorporating cooing soul infused "whoa-whoa-whoa"'s background vocals to Ryan's singing. After the first chorus is through, the song takes a dramatic pause every instrument stopping in sync with lights turning off. The lights quickly return showing Hernandez back to the spot where he originally started the song, placing back the mic on the stand. The band starts to play again, this time joined by Ryan's guitar playing. At this moment, Ryan sings the chorus into a microphone that was placed beside the original one, a mic that has a heavy reverb to it, making his singing that much more powerful. By the breakdown of the song, Hernandez seems to notice that he has to finish off the song strong, with every note from the breakdown forward get a higher added pitch thanks to the choir vocalists At that point is when Hernandez finally seems really into the song adding a bit of a guitar solo to performance with so intensity that it was a miracle he didn't break-off a few strings off his guitar. Ryan finishes off the song with a monster guitar solo that sends the whole arena on a fringe. It sounds like Jimi Hendrix meets Robert Johnson meets Eric Clapton meets Ryan Ross Hernandez. Hernandez seems to want people to recognize him as an all-around musical genius, and not just an amazing guitar player. The almost two minute guitar solo, ends with Hernandez tossing his guitar on the ground and adding a little Jimi Hendrix feel as he plays the guitar, crouched down on his knees, finger-picking each chord. A perfect example of Hernandez's going filth limb on his guitar.

If You Love Somebody Set Them Free (Intro) [Sting cover] > The Other Side of Desire

Ryan Ross Hernandez now has the audience at a buzz and in his hand, which is where he seems the most comfortable to have them all. As Ryan is handed a different guitar by his tech, he removes his suit jacket and throws it into the audience. He takes off both his earpieces and lets them hang around his ears. He backs away from the microphone a second to clear his throat before starting to speak. One of his backing guitarists' starts to play gradually building guitar riff, all the while. "This is a Thursday evening, a night never to be trusted with emotions. So a lot of you guys are gonna head home, and either receive texts in the middle of the night, or actually compose them. That are not going to be fully representable of how you feel for the rest of the day, or the rest of your weekend. But you'll be reaching out. And if you're not reaching out, you'll have someone else reaching out to you. And your friends, and your brain, and your morals, and your conscious; have all trained you not to respond. But I am gonna go against the grain here, and I am going to disagree. The next time you get a text from the one you love, the only person in the world that you love and can't talk to; that you respond. That you just write back. When they ask you, if you're up, if you're up and you love them. Write back, 'Yep. Come over.' Because life is just too damn short to keep playing the game. If you really want somebody, you'll figure it out later. Otherwise if you're laying in bed with blackberry on your chest, staring at it doing nothing for the rest of the night, hoping that it goes [imitates vibrating sound]. You can't live life on 'what if's', because life is just too full of potential. If you love somebody and still have the slightest potential to be with them tonight, do it. Even if it makes tomorrow hell, do it tonight."

He gives about a ten second pause period from his long-winded banter and starting the performance. As the guitar riff is still the only sound heard, Ryan begins to sing in a voice much less straining than his previous falsetto high vocal tone.



Ryan sings a no longer than a minute cover of Sting and the Police's classic song, 'If You Love Somebody Set Them Free'. The guitar riff stops for ten seconds, as Ryan rises his guitar and starts playing the opening riff of his current single, 'The Other Side of Desire'. This entire time the stage was mostly dark, with just a few lights shining on the spots around the stage where Ryan and his band were. Before starting to sing, he leans against the microphone to make a quick introduction, "Please welcome, all the way from California, the Los Angeles Philharmonic." The lights now all rise on stage, the entire empty space behind Hernandez and his backing band is surrounded with an entire full-piece orchestra symphony. Ryan begins to sing playing the same guitar riff, with violins and cellos slowly coming in and playing a supporting role, to add a scenery, calm sound. This calm sound continues even through the chorus, in at the spot where drums blasting through was expected, were barely audible percussion cymbals. After the first chorus, drums are finally incorporated in a big way, perfectly meeting with the faster paced string section and Ryan's guitar playing. The drumming is mostly consistent all the way through out, keeping the beat steady, until the guitar solo where it heavies itself before returning to its steady pace. Ryan's vocal chops are not hit every note perfectly, but he has mastered how to transcend his emotions through his voice without having to be picture perfect, more like a transcending crescendo of melancholy. When Hernandez sighs out his fear of being forgotten in his breathy, wounded croon, it's difficult not to empathize with the guy. Switching to 3/4 time helps to change up the mood a bit for this denim-clad, adult contemporary soft-rock, built around a quiet but melodically pleasing electric guitar melody. Ryan's circular guitar work and a layered arrangement as his sultry vocals gives into lust in a rhythmic and dense epic that's confident, passionate and strong. The arrangements on this live performance is lovely, Ryan's guitar work going perfectly with the paced drumming, orchestra backing, and combination of keyboards and Hammond B3 organ. The entire performance up until now can be considered a build-up to what was happening next. An harmonized guitar solo during the breakdown of the song, that while everything else is happening in the background, all the ears are focused on the solo Ryan is playing, transcending his strength (or lack thereof) in perfectly circular guitar work to make for a luxuriously melancholy guitar solo, the pain visible in every muscle on his face. By the sounds of it, it finally seems as though Ryan has mastered the true meaning of making a guitar cry, if that gleam in his eye isn't a tear. At this point, Hernandez's performance is well past his limit but no one was going to stop him at this point. By the time the last chorus comes around, the choir that was heard during the previous performance, return and sing the final chorus in perfect sync without Ryan who is seen on his knees on the carpeted area on stage playing the life out of his guitar. It was only appropriate that his performance ended with just his guitar work alone being heard. As soon as he finishes it that final chord, he is met with a massive amount of applause from the audience at hand, giving him a standing ovation. He smiles for the first time since getting on stage this evening, still on his knees he gives the fans a quick applause. He rises to his feet and says into the microphone, "Thank you, thank you. Goodnight London. See you next time."

Setlist

Intro
Hollywood Hills Assassin
If You Love Somebody Set Them Free (Intro) [Sting cover] > The Other Side of Desire

Edited by user 27 May 2011 08:19:21(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

The next award was called "oh dear go old chap...don't you read these forums a frightfully awful lot?"

Yup, that was it, what can I say, there are a few of us who hang around a lot. I'm sure some of you are used to ALWAYS seeing the same names when you sign in lol

The runner up for this award is C4AJoh

which means the winner was

me

Thanks to the voters. And yes I do read these forums a hell of a lot, pretty much all the time. Although I think someone is trying to ensure she wins this award next time already ;)

OOC: Damn PANIC! That is incredible! gonna read it now. Always flawless!

The third OOC Award is for the dude who is most involved...award

This award is for people who read what other people write, and take the time to reply. It can be a difficult thing to do, and a lot of us are sometimes guilty of being too concentrated on our own RPs. In saying that, I think the interaction in general is really good at the moment!

And so, the runner up is.....Daniel (Stephaniewazhere) unlucky dude, ya hit the post

Which means the winner is...

C4AJOH and I don't think anyone could disagree! Well done mate, a thoroughly deserved win!

OOC: lol thanks whoever voted for me, It's really appreaciated. :)

Second last award now....this one is for Best Storyline

This award goes out for a well thought out storyline, and a story which makes people want more...

and the runner up was...Jonny Johnson and the Birdies heart attack

Meaning that the winner was


DOC DOES $1 TOURS AGAIN

Well done I suppose....weird, I didnt think people would vote for it....

OOC It was pretty great. I can't see how it is a disappointment now after reading it, it turned out one of if not the best. Dont be so hard on yourself )

OK, I fished,no one took the bait, well done!

The real winners were

Stacey, Matt and me - lesbiangate/KatieNicole

Well done and thanks to both you guys. I thought it went really well overall, and I think people enjoyed it!