#LoFiSoul Tour 2019

[Tusk]

Haley was fortunate Interscope gave her time to write and shape her debut album. 

and learn the production end of the process, as it sounded like and we saw pictures of, Haley in the studio production part of Listen Up!, something critical of what's to come in her career.  One thing that is certainly true about Haley, post Idol, she appeared to have jumped in feet first about the making of her albums.

I was lucky (I'm not sure if it's luck any more the types of encounters I have on these trips, in all these years) to have bumped into Mitchell (@hausmusicproduction) at the Hawthorne in Portland.  I think he might have been shocked that anyone reconised him.

He produced "Some Where Some How" from Lo-Fi soul (I think those videos of Haley and Casey messing around singing ABBA and the Beatles may have been at his place.... Casey played piano on SWSH).

To the point.  One thing he said about Haley, she knows what she wants and determined to have things the way she wants it.  I replied that I think the ''cutesy, Betty Boop" *act* that Haley puts on as her professional persona causes many to underestimate her.  As with anyone Haley meets, Mitchell is wowed by Haley, he had previous engagements in Haley's CA shows, so he flew to Portland to see his first live Haley performance.

We saw Balam climb some stairs above the stage, we called to him and Balam came down to greet Mitchell (I think these guys are the Drew side of the story, Balam played guitar for Drew at the Troubadour, they are also very close w/ Zephyr and Jose (Bass/Drums Jose was Drums at the 2018 Hotel Cafe show)

Before Haley came on, Mitchell came back from upstairs and stood right next to me.  He had a pretty big camera and was taking photos next to me.  The cool thing is, I got to experience the joy of a first live Haley experience***, even though they are friends, this was the first time he saw Haley and a bunch of his friends perform live    One of the positives in running my channel, is getting to see when someone gets their WTF moment, seeing Haley for the first time.  It's almost like re-living my own exhilaration of discovering something that fills me with Joy.

I could feel his energy behind me, sometimes out of the side of my eyes, I'd see hair whipping around, he didn't bump into me, but I could really sense the joy he was experiencing, the energy he was putting out.  I could even feel his smile and pride when Haley announced she was performing the song they worked on, it's first live debut.
 
Earlier in the day, at the meet and greet, before performing "Lay it Down" she said she was going to replace it in the set with a new song she hasn't performed Live.  I assumed it would be "Strange World" since she performed that at one of the earlier meet and greets.  But she chose the day her friend flew into state just to see her perform to debut their song

Here are some of Mitchell's photos

https://www.instagram.com/p/BwpzFXQBCsX/

(addendum, as Mitchell was talking about working w/ Haley, I jokingly asked him, Haley almost always says that what you hear is basically 'first take'... "Is that true?"
Mitchell said, actually we took 3 takes on SWSH, BUT they ended up using her first take! lol.... so yeah, out of a producer's mouth.  Scott said the same about Creep, she wanted to do a second take cause she was just getting over a bug and Scott assured her, the one take was perfect.  She wasn't exaggerating #OneTakeWonder )

*** We met quite a few people this was their first time seeing Haley performing live.  When ISCAT airhigh and I arrived to line up for the Meet and Greet, I'd say at least 5-6 of the first 10 people in line had never seen Haley live before.  Airhigh told me that he'd heard there were 75 at the meet and greet in Seattle...that show started really late, which made me wonder why they moved the meet and greet times from 5pm to 6pm?  Maybe they felt there was too much time between the meet and greet and letting the GA in, that they didn't mind going later?