David Cook Joins Our Lady Peace On Stage In Kansas City

What a thrill for David to be singing with OLP, a band he followed/loved as a teenager. Love that Raine and David are friend. He sounds great on “Starseed”.

Awesome. Love the jacket, too.

hahahaha! This is awesome. I know David loves OLP. What a great night for him, surely!

Cool. I love David in ball caps.

Also in this new USA Today Carrie Underwood Interview, she says about David…

“David Cook, who won American Idol three seasons after she did, joins her for Van Halen’s Why Can’t This Be Love. “We sound really good together, point blank,” she says. He also lived briefly in Tulsa, and she likes that. “Out of all the people that have been on Idol, he’s my best friend.”

Here is the rest of the interview
http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2009-11-02-carrieinside02_ST_N.htm

eek!! i have been dreaming of this day for the longest time!! we got a taste of OLPCookness when jeremy joined the band for two dates in Canada, but i’m loving this. soooo much, thank youu!!

I can’t even imagine how cool it must be for him to be friends with and perform with a band that he loved when he was a teenager. It’s just so cool, and makes me smile… yay!!

Wow! thanks for posting this mj

I really like Raine’s voice, but when DC comes in, my whole body goes, “Ahhhhh, yes.” They sound great together. I hope one day DC can do a CD of nothing but duets. We already know at least four people who should be on it with him: Andy, Archie, Raine, and Carrie. Esp. Carrie.

Thanks for the thread MJ. Looks like the audience and the performers had a great time. I really appreciate YouTube. It is so cool to be able to see stuff like this.

I wonder if this guy ever thought this would happen one day.
They sound great together.

This has got to be a dream come true for DC… OLP comes to his home town, and he gets to sing with them? Too damn cool.

Thanks MJ! So cool that David gets to perform with his favorite bands like Crash Kings and OLP. It would be cool to see them perform Innocent together.
ETA: Nice pick Leome. Hard to believe that’s the same guy who walked the red carpet for an MJ premier and serenaded Hillary Clinton at Carnegie Hall.

David has to be just living his dream right now. OLP is one of his favorite bands. First he gets to write with Raine Maida (co-writes on Heroes, Mr. Sensitive, I Did It For You, and Permanent) and Raine’s wife, Chantal (co-writes on Permanent), for his album. Since the writing sessions, he has spent time on the golf course with Raine. Now he is singing on stage with Raine and OLP in his home town of Kansas City. Can it get any better than this?

Maybe. He’s also appearing on Carrie Underwood’s Christmas special to be aired in December. Carrie is interviewed by US Today and says

David Cook, who won American Idol three seasons after she did, joins her for Van Halen’s Why Can’t This Be Love. ‘We sound really good together, point blank,’ ¦ Out of all the people that have been on Idol, he’s my best friend.”

They’ve really seemed to make a personal and an artistic connection. Oh, and to complete the “circle” Carrie has Raine Maida and his wife Chantal Kreviazuk as a co-writer on her new song “Unapologize”.

Maybe we’ll see more collaborations between David, Carrie, and Raine in the future. If that happens, I’ll be one of the first to go squeeeeeee!!!!

Leome – that picture you linked to of a young Cookie in an Our Lady Peace t-shirt, that’s just perfect! Like folkfan said, so damn cool that he got to play with them in his hometown.

“I wonder if this guy ever thought this would happen one day.”

Neat pic of Cookie in that T-shirt! Also nice Carrie quotes. A duet CD would be something.

Cookie looks great in that jacket.

Thanks, MJ and all, for the fun thread!

Why oh why can’t I be a professional groupie and follow these guys around? All of them. I wish I was there so bad I can feel it! As you all said, how amazing cool incredible for Cook to get to do this now. leome, love the silly pic of him in the OLP t-shirt. He probably has to pinch himself at least 5X day. I know he’s working hard, but hey, you gotta make a living, right? And I hope he’s loving it.

We need David singing harmonies on other people’s albums…yeeeees. I do like his and Carrie’s voices together. And he sounds great here with Raine Mada & OLP. I don’t even know this song and I just got goosebumps when he came in with those vocals. I guess I’ll have to get some OLP now…I’ve managed to rein in the spending on music the last few months, which all started (again) when Cook got me interested in and LOVING music again! Dammit. I’m sending him a bill….

Thanks for sharing, all.

I bought OLP’s new CD and then went and got their greatest hits. Great stuff. I love this group. Thanks for the thread. I think Rob Cavallo said that David Cook is a natural harmonizer. Some singers can’t do it or find it hard it comes naturally to David. Don’t forget Ryan Star in that duet, you should hear him and David sing Ryan’s single “Breath” together. Breathtaking.

Damn I live in Kansas City and I STILL haven’t run into David Cook lol… but this was hella funny

Can I just say watching the World Series with him via Twitter is the funniest thing ever? Cracking up so hard.

So cool. The sound wasn’t the best, but still, too cool that this happened for DC.

I hope one day DC can do a CD of nothing but duets. We already know at least four people who should be on it with him: Andy, Archie, Raine, and Carrie. Esp. Carrie.

I agree that DC always sounds great on duets. Even in those stupid AI group numbers or Ford commercials, I could always pick out his voice, even though he would often sound vastly different in each of them. He’s got a great knack for harmonizing. I’d add Ryan Star to that list, spritely. His duet with him on Breathe sounded great, even on the crappy youtube vid. Also with you 1000% on the esp. Carrie part. I’m so frickin excited about his Van Halen duet with Carrie. Something about their voices sound so great together. These two should just cut a whole album of them. Better yet, start a side project and form a group LOL. What did Brian Mansfield say about their Go Your Own Way duet from the Disney event? Ooh, found the quote:

They sound great together — it’s kind of like watching Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, except the guy’s the one with the raspy voice.

So true! I mean, realistically, I don’t think forming a group would make any sense for either careers, obviously, but I just hope there will be as much opportunity for more Cookwood (or Undercooked) collabs in the future as possible. Of course, my fervent wish for a Kelly Clarkson/David Cook duet still stands . I’m greedy, want it all.

David sang with OLP on the”Starseed” encore at the Dallas House of Blues show they did on 8/10/09 as well – he made a special detour on his way back to LA for the Hard Rock Cafe donation ceremonies in order to do that.

At the HRC Meet & Greet, David told Scott from DCO that he was still pinching himself over it.

Sorry, no pretty links
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sscyGGLY5nA

Still another ‘Pinch Me’ moment last night, I’d guess….and a chance to say ‘thank you’ in person for the loan of the drummer.

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Great duet. I love the way David sings the “yeah-ee, yeah-ee, yeah-ees”. (Okay, I had it on repeat for about an hour earlier today, I admit it!) I keep hoping he’ll turn up dueting on someone else’s album (and single) before next summer. It would be a perfect way to keep his name and sound out there while he’s recording DCTR2, and it would introduce new people to his sound. Carrie had her duet with Randy Travis last spring, so we know it’s in Simon Fuller’s playbook.

OT- Where have the Amazon and iTunes buttons gone? I was about to click through to buy a couple of songs.

thedavidcook
Wait…. MLB.com is following my tweets? in that case… GO. ROYALS!!!!!!! Hear that, baseball world?!? GO. ROYALS!!!!!!!

LOL. He’s a goofball.

This is the David I love.

Yay CookMaida is awesome!! I’ve had OLP’s newest playing nonstop lately. Great album.

I didn’t know what he was talking about at first but I just looked MLB.com IS following him LMAO! Not kidding I’ve had tears running down my face from laughing tonight! I almost choked when he tweeted to the married couple who were fighting over the game that he was going to make them hug. I wonder if he’s had one too many beers heh.

Can I just say watching the World Series with him via Twitter is the funniest thing ever? Cracking up so hard.

Haha, he’s being pretty goofy… but what is the deal with not picking a team to root for? It’s the World Series, dude. LAME, DC, it’s a little lame. He may not like them very much, but he’s gotta be rooting for the Phillies, since he has said a few times that he hates the Yankees, right. I think he was being a bit of a pussy by straddling. Just sayin.

but what is the deal with not picking a team to root for?

He’s Mr. Politician, lol. Always neutral!

I wonder if this guy ever thought this would happen one day.
They sound great together.

And I love that pic – awww! He seems to have had big dreams but… I don’t know if he ever could’ve imagined he’s sing with his own idol. Just love it. Have to watch again. Hee!

Wow, that’s pretty cool about MLB.com following him on Twitter. That must be unreal for such a baseball nut like him. And then, of course, that follows a night in which he got to sing with his musical idol in front of his hometown. Cook must be getting bruises from all the pinching he’s gotta be doing to himself. How unreal! (And leome, that pic of pre-Idol Dave in his OLP shirt is tres cool.)

And aww on Carrie calling him her Idol BFF. I smish those two.

Cute tweet from DC. Did you look on the front page of MLB.com? Its link to the “Pulse” page (where it is monitoring tweets and such) says David Cook rocking to Classic OLP concert last night. MLB.com following him tonight. Not a bad week for Mr. Cook.

I wonder if this guy ever thought this would happen one day.

Aww, I love this guy.

I can hardly wait to see that X-mas special to see how he and Carrie look at each other. (Just sayin’.)

And I am overjoyed for David–must have been great for OLP too. (But I don’t get what people see in concerts like that–it’s just so loud. All the sound is distorted; can’t hear any of the lyrics David is singing. Just don’t get that part.)

He probably never imagined it. I used too listen to OLP before Dave was on idol, but thanks to him I have a new-found intrest in their music.

(But I don’t get what people see in concerts like that’“it’s just so loud. All the sound is distorted; can’t hear any of the lyrics David is singing. Just don’t get that part.)

Well, it’s utube. The sound you hear is what the teeny tiny video recorders/cameras mics can discern — which is way less detailed than what the human ear can. Also, those people who can capture great videos like that are probably really up close by the speakers and not further out in the crowd at the sweet spot of the sound field.

Also, it’s rock and we likes it LOUD!! [wink]

But I don’t get what people see in concerts like that’“it’s just so loud.

Aww, Suzanne, that’s what makes it fun! Keel has a point — this is music that’s meant to be heard live, not through crummy camera mics. And it needs to be cranked up good and proper so you can feel it in your bones. : )

spritely I flove your album of duets idea! This must happen. And leome, thank you for posting that photo. I’ve never seen it before and together with these vids it makes me happy.

For anyone interested, angelangiekc posted several other vids from the concert — the one for “Innocent” is here. Oh, how I love that song.

I know that was supposed to be a bad performance for David on AI, and technically, I get why, but I still love that he did it, because you could see and hear that it was from the heart. And his studio version of that song is *stellar*. I never, ever get tired of it. Cook & Maida definitely go well together.

“Out of all the people that have been on Idol, he’s my best friend.”

Aww I love Carrie!

Thanks for the videos MJ!

the one for ‘Innocent’  is here. Oh, how I love that song

That was the first time I saw David Cook on TV and I found him so cute and kind of shy. Later, I searched him online and fell for him at “Hello”. For the past 18 months, he became the major part of my life. Strange, heh?!

Thanks MJ, love the cookie crumbs. He deserves much success and happiness.

Aww, he’s having such a blast up there. Never heard the song before, but I like what I can make of it through the crappy YouTube audio. Then again it’s possible that I’m just under the thrall of David’s voice.

Thanks for that Carrie quote upthread. Even more than her saying DC’s her Idol BFF (Awww!), I like that she acknowledges how good they sound together. More Cookwood please?

Love these vids..thanks MJ! Starseed..great song made even better with Mr. Cook on vocals!

Ah, such joy on that face. Love the picture of scrawny teenage Dave in the OLP shirt. I have to think that while he may have fantasized about opening for them someday, his daydreams never extended to wailing right along with them on the P&L stage or golfing with Raine during tour breaks. Any time he takes the stage with one of his Idols I think about him living his “Rock Star” dreams (meaning the Mark Wahlberg movie that Cook has cited as his one of his favorites, about the kid who gets picked to sing for Judas Priest after worshiping them for years).

And I really am beginning to think that the man can harmonize with anyone, on anything. I adore his ‘Hero’ duet with Archie, the SSB with Andrew, GMA ‘Litle Lies’ with Kris and Adam, ‘Breathe’ with Ryan Star, everything with Andy Skib, and of course CookWood. Cavallo said as much when Dave tracked all his own backing vocals for his debut album, and even Carrie is totally matter-of-fact about it. “We sound really good together, point blank.” Why yes Carrie, yes you do. CMT Crossroads, are you listening? It would be a ratings blockbuster, I’m telling you.

Very cool. Thanks for the videos, MJ.

I agree with Carrie. She and David Cook sound great together. It’s good to hear they are good friends. American Idol alum share something unique that most others will never be able to truly relate to on a personal level.

For you fans of David Cook and OLP a fan at DCO took several of the videos of Starseed, tweeked the audio a little and put them in a download for all of you. The sound can be adjusted with experimenting with the settings of the equalizer on I-Tunes. End result is pretty good.

http://www.4shared.com/file/145579289/388871e5/091031_-_Starseed__OLP_.html

That looks like one of the funnest Halloween concerts ever.

I’m yet another person who was a fan of Our Lady Peace way before getting intro’d to Cook. Loved their record the Age of Spiritual Machines way back when in the early oughties.

When he kinda messed up on Innocent on the Show, I was like Oh Noes, he lub that song & it didn’t come out right, that has to suck.

Now, they lay down the studio version of Idol songs before the live performance, and as folks have said, the studio of it is awesome.

But as so often, it all came out right in the end! Cowriting with Raine M, and singing with OLP and the whole year of good stuff!

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hat was the first time I saw David Cook on TV and I found him so cute and kind of shy. Later, I searched him online and fell for him at ‘Hello’ . For the past 18 months, he became the major part of my life. Strange, heh?!

Aga, I love this comment of yours. I was lurking at twop (Television Without Pity) at the time and it was exploding with worry and dismay about his “Innocent” performance. And there you were, knowing none of that and just seeing for the first time with your own eyes how cute and shy he seemed, and starting to fall for him because of that very performance. We needn’t have worried, although the fact that it made us sprint to our phones to vote probably didn’t hurt him, lol. It took the fandom a long time to figure out that worrying about DC is pretty much a waste of time. To paraphrase maturin, with DC it usually all comes out right in the end, to his credit.

Here is the David’s studio version of Innocent for all who are interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-Bm17f8bG0

And here’s a fun mashup of the original OLP ‘Innocent’ and Cook’s studio version from Idol. Gives an idea of what a duet might sound like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiTXDa1_Ftk

I still remember the visceral reaction I had to that performance of Innocent – when he started off shaky, I started to get shaky. And as I raced for the phone that night, I suddenly realized that after years of blithely watching this stupid show, I was now INVESTED. All I knew was that I needed David Cook to be on that stage the following week. Sorry Michael Johns, it was a necessary sacrifice.

LadyM, oh, how I remember the panicked feeling: “What if I don’t get to see and hear him on my tv again???!!!” Votevotevotevotevote

canadiandcfan:
eek!! i have been dreaming of this day for the longest time!!

Me too bb! And can I take a minute out of my CookMaida!ZOMG! flailing to compliment your country on it’s awesome musical contributions, LOL. OLP, The Hip, Arcade Fire, Hawksley Workman…fantastic musicians, fantastic music. I couldn’t think of a better mentor for Dave than Raine. I def see and hear some OLP influence in David and The Anthemic’s live performances, which is a very good thing. (I actually kinda wish someone had hooked Adam up with Hawksley Workman, a true glam rock revival creative force of nature, for his record but that’s a topic for another thread.)

Leome, that picture is too precious. As is Dave’s fanboying the MLB. I kinda think he’s secrety rooting for my Phils, which is why the Yankees are leading the series. Love that boy, but his sports fan mojo aint so great this year. I won’t even get into the Chiefs and LJ…

I still remember the visceral reaction I had to that performance of Innocent ‘“ when he started off shaky, I started to get shaky. And as I raced for the phone that night, I suddenly realized that after years of blithely watching this stupid show, I was now INVESTED. All I knew was that I needed David Cook to be on that stage the following week. Sorry Michael Johns, it was a necessary sacrifice.

I had the *exact* same experience! And it was funny because my older son, who was 12 at the time, LOVED the performance (and DC’s jacket!). He wasn’t particuarly into the show that season (having had his heart broken when Chris Daughtry was booted two years prior), but after the season finale, he begged me to let him stay up late to vote for David. I think my kid took Simon’s dissing personally.

(Michael Johns was collateral damage. Heh.)

Ah, those were the days, eh?? Hee. What I wouldn’t give to have DC on my TV twice a week again. YouTubes (although I greatly appreciate them) just don’t cut it.

Has anybody else read the iTunes review for OLP’s latest release, Burn Burn (Deluxe Edition)? It specifically mentions David, and they actually credit Raine’s and David’s collaboration with making the new release “more accessible.”

Sorry, I don’t know how to post links to iTunes pages, but it’s a nice little review.

Hahaha, I also recall experiencing a whole Sophie’s Choice internal mini-drama thing on the night of the Innocent performance. Sorry MJ, I did appreciate the way you stood by your decision to rock out to some Aerosmith rather than staying in your “soul singer” box and felt like Simon was a bit of a dick to you, but David sang OLP! On AI! With the Not Penny’s Boat, err, Give Back hand! I mean, I was still mourning the loss of one hand scribbling big dreaming TV rawker in Charlie Pace. I couldn’t bare to see another one voted off the island. The choice, in the end, was clear. And I think it was pretty soon after Innocent that I found Analog Heart. The rest, as they say, was history. Oh, Mavid. How I missed your adorkable group sing interactions after that, though. Damn you Kristie Lee. Damn you.

And as I raced for the phone that night, I suddenly realized that after years of blithely watching this stupid show, I was now INVESTED. All I knew was that I needed David Cook to be on that stage the following week. Sorry Michael Johns, it was a necessary sacrifice.

*EXACTLY* what happened to me, lol. I was already hooked on him but that was when I realized that I’d be heartbroken if he left the show. Hee!

” I still remember the visceral reaction I had to that performance of Innocent ‘“ when he started off shaky, I started to get shaky. And as I raced for the phone that night, I suddenly realized that after years of blithely watching this stupid show, I was now INVESTED. All I knew was that I needed David Cook to be on that stage the following week. Sorry Michael Johns, it was a necessary sacrifice. ”

Yeah… It was a lot like that for me… When David sang Billie Jean (Top 10), I liked many contestants but I was mostly a Michael Johns and David Cook fan. However, between the top 10 week and the top 8 week, something happened. I don’t know why or how but David became my favorite season 7 contestant. The week David sang Innocent, I was sad to see Michael Johns go home but I was mostly relieved that it wasn’t David who was sent home. Every week after that, I got more and more into David and I’m still a huge David fan which is rare for me because I always forget about my favorite contestant(s) as soon as the season is over. For example, I was a huge Adam fan this season but I already don’t care about him anymore… I don’t read the Adam news, I don’t listen to his music, I dont watch his American Idol performances and I never feel the need to watch them. However, I still read the David Cook news, I listen to David’s music quite often and I still watch his American Idol performances and enjoy them.

I love Raine Maida – he’s an offbeat distinctive vocalist, that purty face helps too lol. But when David did Innocent – I had that studio track on repeat blasting away all day. Aaaaaaarghsome!

Love all his duets, but Cook-Skibby iz my fave rock vocal duo evah. Waiting with bated breath for the Van Halen duet with Carrie though. I read somewhere that she thanked “Cookie” in the deets to her album? Altogether now: aaaawww

wordnerdarchie: thanks for the link to starseed. I’ve been trying to download for the last hour and it’s not working though *sobs*..

daenarys, I just tried the download again and it works for me. Check your pop-up program. Otherwise, see if this works.

http://www.4shared.com/get/145579289/388871e5/091031_-_Starseed__OLP_.html

I had the *exact* same experience! And it was funny because my older son, who was 12 at the time, LOVED the performance (and DC’s jacket!). He wasn’t particuarly into the show that season (having had his heart broken when Chris Daughtry was booted two years prior), but after the season finale, he begged me to let him stay up late to vote for David. I think my kid took Simon’s dissing personally.

Along with your son, I liked his performance of Innocent on Idol too *and* I liked the jacket. He was just trying to give it a different style, a different look. Isn’t that what we all look for now, with the complaints of plaid, plaid, and more plaid. Perhaps one of the reasons I liked the perfromance is that I wasn’t comparing it to anything. I had no idea who Our Lady Peace was and had never heard the song. It was like DC was singing a new song to me, which made me realize that I must really like his voice and stage persona if he could sell a song to me that I knew nothing about. (Usually Idol contestants are helped by a song’s familiarity to the audience, but when they get out there and sing songs no one knows or very few know … not so much.)

And there you were, knowing none of that and just seeing for the first time with your own eyes how cute and shy he seemed, and starting to fall for him because of that very performance.

Funny, though. He was slammed by Simon that night for seeming smug and arrogant — not shy.

Leaving the live performance aside, the studio version of Innocent is fabulous. You cannot play that and NOT move your body.

Here’s David’s latest tweet: ” Just wanted to say, we can’t wait to come back out & finish strong. Working on a few surprises for you guys. See you out there.”
Excitement! I’m so looking forward to youtubes of these last shows of his first big tour!!!

Funny, though. He was slammed by Simon that night for seeming smug and arrogant ‘” not shy.

Whenever he’s not singing, DC pretty much comes across as a humble, respectful, sincere guy and I noticed that whenever he felt like he did badly, his face would show disappointment and someone bracing himself for negative comments– I think that’s what BootStar’s son read as “shy”. DC’s onstage persona, on the other hand, is never shy. It’s always chock full of whatever confidence and emotion he could muster at the moment, and perhaps that’s what Simon would sometimes read as smug or arrogant. For the record, Simon was dead wrong .

I remember watching Innocent and being all kinds of confused. I didn’t like the performance, felt bad for him, but something about the way he looked after (hot and sad!) made me realize I was getting pretty invested. I didn’t vote that night, but I was sooo glad he was safe.

Working on a few surprises for you guys. See you out there.

Woot! Last time he said that, we got I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight, which was f-amazing. But then again… he pretty much wasn’t with his bandmates for the entire break though. Doubt he’s have the chance to work out new songs…?

Has anybody else read the iTunes review for OLP’s latest release, Burn Burn (Deluxe Edition)? It specifically mentions David, and they actually credit Raine’s and David’s collaboration with making the new release ‘more accessible.’ 

Sorry, I don’t know how to post links to iTunes pages, but it’s a nice little review.

Here’s the link:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=323003230&s=143441

You can get the iTunes link by clicking on the little down arrow next to the price.

Very cool to see David listed as a collaborator in various places lately.

Ooh, surprises! I except to spend plenty of time glued to YouTube then, ha! I’ve missed David Cook and the endless tour — will be glad to have him back!

Working on a few surprises for you guys. See you out there.

My first though was “New Music”.
He has said they have 4 (or is it 5?) new songs. I think it would be great to try something in concert. Just sayin!

Surprises? New music? Saw speculation on twitter about Van Halen’s song, “Ice cream man”, since Neal has tweeted in the past about catching the ice cream man.

#nealfingtiemann
Thanks to @andyskib, I caught the ice cream man. Finally.
6:31 PM Oct 30th from Echofon

My first though was ‘New Music’ .
He has said they have 4 (or is it 5?) new songs. I think it would be great to try something in concert. Just sayin!

OMGZ, I would die! Man, trying not to get my hopes up…

Saw speculation on twitter about Van Halen’s song, ‘Ice cream man’ , since Neal has tweeted in the past about catching the ice cream man.

That would be tres cool too. That would make 3 VH covers for DC!

Hmmm…Maybe one of the surprises will be a live version of “One Second to Change Your Life”?

I personally want some more Analog Heart music, but I know I’m dreaming big…but if you don’t dream big, what’s the point of dreaming?

Thanks MJ for the DC/OLP thread as well as the Kelly, Carrie ones. Nice to see news about some of the prior idols.

LOL he does a Fleetwood Mac song with Carrie at the AI Experience, then does a Fleetwood Mac song on tour. Sang a VH song with Carrie on her special..if he does a new VH song I might start smelling a trend. Wut?!

Heh Trina – I think the pattern may actually be reversed. The band first performed ‘Little Lies’ at the album release party, months before singing the Fleetwood Mac song with Carrie at the AI experience. And obviously he’d been doing Van Halen’s ‘Hot For Teacher’ since early in the Declaration tour, and only later picked a VH song to sing on the Underwood holiday special.

So maybe it’s Carrie who’s inspired by the cover choices?!

I thought I had heard that Carrie had been performing that particular Fleetwood Mac cover either in her act or with other artists before DC, so that’s probably just something she and her band were familiar with that would allow for a duet. (Sort of like Little Lies was something DC and his band knew and so it was easy to pull it out to use with Kris and Adam at the GMA concert.)

Don’t know about the Van Halen song. I’m not assuming that Carrie had been doing that one. Van Halen seems more like a DC pick.

David Cook’s voice always blows me away. I’d love to see the next CD full of high-powered alt/rock. Very cool!

I think Carrie and David just happen to like the same music. Carrie listens to a lot of rock. So my guess is that both like Van Halen. lol
Try checking Carrie’s playlists on Itunes, if you remove the few Country songs there they could be David’s playlists. (one of the song is Innocent by OLP, and there’s also Foo Fighters, Jimmy Eat World… very much like David’s picks)

Dude, I just posed the query in the headlines thread about Carrie and DC’s choice of the VH duet for her special– didn’t realize the conversation was taking place here.

So funny about who influenced whose choice of covers. I think Carrie had been doing GYOW on tour forever, so perhaps DC saw her do it one of the times he saw her show before his album dropped, thus inspiring him and Neal to come up with their Little Lies cover for the album release? Maybe not though, since DC said it was Neal’s idea, and I don’t know that DC took Neal with him on his many Carrie concert excursions.

Honestly, I think it just comes down to the fact that these two clearly have very similar taste in music (which no doubt contributed to their chumminess at first). I was slightly surprised to read on Idolchatter’s blurb on Carrie’s ipod that she named Our Lady Peace as one of her favorites. Actually not that surprised– probably more surprised to hear about Mudvayne, haha.

ETA: Leome, definitely agree with your post haha.

surprises?? i like surprises, hope this includes the two canadian dates
can. not. wait.

That is why American Idol is a terrible terrible manipulative show. And I say that with love.

I mean, from a point of judgment, Hello, Billie Jean, Eleanor Rigby, Little Sparrow had sealed the deal for me, and that’s a fairly common and reasonable experience. Four outstanding performances out the first seven, and the other three good, is the sort of series that tends to lock in a large amount of the audience and create a strong contender for final two. For me, it made him the favorite performer in the three seasons I’d watched.

Innocent was the first one I thought was weak, so it should have been a demerit or at least, a write off (neutral).

But he was all

Or maybe
; ;
~

And then we were all Saaave the Roooocker! And Simon was an ass about it, so we saved Cook harder. So it ended up a plus and not a minus.

But Innocent sad face aside, I don’t think the individual quirks of Week 8 bumped off Johns. He was one of those contestants who decided to mostly stick with a style that had been popular in past seasons (Queen *again*, twice? ) and he didn’t really carve out his own thing (you can’t win by being an improved Constantine Maroulis) aaaand . . . Cook drank his milkshake. He drank it up.

OMG .. love the studio version of Innocent, thanks for link. Maybe it’s not him just not singing well , I think some of the problem was he maybe picked the wrong part of the song or the arrangement didn’t work. What a voice ! If you haven’t heard the Billie Jean he performed on the ice skating show, you have missed a good one. I don’t remember link but if you go to UTube and use Cheryl Davis & Charlie White ice skating, you should find it. Really is worth your time to hear how crystal clear and powerful his voice is.

But he was all

Or maybe
; ;
~

Have I told you lately that I flove you, maturin? Hahaha… you always get to the heart of the matter while being hilarious. Sooo true. His F-ing FACE after the Innocent performance was ridiculous. I was like, who is this guy who wears his heart on his sleeve, and why is Simon calling this sweetheart SMUG?! Granted, like I said, I didn’t vote that night, but it was the beginning of the end for me. I was invested.

LOL at Cook drinking MJ’s milkshake. Is that a Daniel Day Lewis reference? If so, too.damn.funny. DC as Plainview… the image!

As an aside, besides those performances you listed, I’ll add Always Be My Baby, Music of the Night, All I Really Need is You, Baba O’Riley, First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, and The World I Know as ALL, eminently listenable, fantabulous covers. To me, after Top 8, DC never really faltered even when he faltered. He benefited from the multi-song format from Top 5 on, and ALWAYS knocked at least one song out of the park, that was at least impressive enough to do well on iTunes and keep him in the competition. DC pretty nearly played a perfect game if Idol, IMO. Sigh, good times, following that guy on AI7, good times.

ahhh maturin is love. Hee

MOTN was actually the deal sealer for me but your last paragraph kind of summed it all up. I don’t think Michael would have won regardless of what happened that week for the reason you stated. I think he waited a little too long to try something different in order to stand out.

MOTN almost made me drool. Heh I was transfixed by that face. I was done. Putting all jokes aside though, I realized that he could perform almost any challenge placed in front of him and make the most of it.

Oh those vids up there….priceless! LOL

MOTN was actually the deal sealer for me but your last paragraph kind of summed it all up. I don’t think Michael would have won regardless of what happened that week for the reason you stated. I think he waited a little too long to try something different in order to stand out.

MOTN was amazing, but the deal sealer for me was shockingly Innocent. I think the performance was greatly underrated. Simon made me so mad that night, I wanted to shoot him. From then on I was invested. When Cook won I freaked out and scared pretty much my whole family, because I’m the quiet type. ha

The studio version of Innocent is one of my favorites — I still listen to it often…

maturin, I love your post – so true! Great face, hee.

Now I have to go back and watch that Innocent performance again and look at the face. Like I needed earnest, sad-faced David… I like I needed to get *more* invested in this guy. And here I am HOW many many months later?! LOL

When Cook won I freaked out and scared pretty much my whole family, because I’m the quiet type. ha

LOL, me too! I’m not generally an outgoing sort, but something about this guy… man, when they said his name I went flying out of my chair (where I had been twitching nervously with a stomach ache for God’s sake) and was WOOOOOOHOOOOOOing and scared the crap out of hubby and kids. Of course vascot knows after going to three shows with me that David continues to make quiet ol’ me go WOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOO when I see him live. Apologies, again, to anyone standing in front of me at his shows. I just can’t help myself. I love him. Hee!

LOL, me too! I’m not generally an outgoing sort, but something about this guy’ ¦ man, when they said his name I went flying out of my chair (where I had been twitching nervously with a stomach ache for God’s sake) and was WOOOOOOHOOOOOOing and scared the crap out of hubby and kids.

That is hillarious. Holy crap you sound just like me.

Also I had a revelation. Cook’s left hand said “give back”, but hes left handed. Did he write with his right hand or something? Wow I can’t believe I even care.

tierbee: “Of course vascot knows after going to three shows with me that David continues to make quiet ol’ me go WOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOO when I see him live. Apologies, again, to anyone standing in front of me at his shows.”

Between the two of us wooohooo’ing, I do fee sorry for the people in front of us trying to film. Am off to figure out how to use the quote function. As a former lurker, I clearly need proper posting lessons.

I don’t feel so bad that I get all WOOOOO and stuff, David even made the two snarliest, eye-rolling teenage girls ever WOOOOOO after they scowled through Ryan Star’s set. Hee.

My 4 yr old just randomly started singing Life on the Moon, BTW. He’s in the other room playing with his blocks and I hear with his funny little pronunciation… “Wife on the mooooon couldn’t be any stwanger…” *Squishes 4 yr old with great music taste*

My 4 yr old just randomly started singing Life on the Moon, BTW. He’s in the other room playing with his blocks and I hear with his funny little pronunciation’ ¦ ‘Wife on the mooooon couldn’t be any stwanger’ ¦’  *Squishes 4 yr old with great music taste*

Wife on the moon. That’s what I’m gonna think of everytime I hear that song now. Great. On another note I wish I could hear Cook’s voice more on those Starseed videos. I flove that song. Dave is just the icing on the proverbial cake.

LOL, seriously, you’re not the first person to notice the left handed oddity of the Give Back placement. See: Handgate, David’s TWoP thread. I think at the time the consensus was that he most likely asked Carly or MJ to write it for him, which just made it all that much more adorable. Y’all were spurred to action by the sadface but for me it was all about the poor misunderstood Charlie hand. He was so damn earnest about it and my heart broke into a thousand little pieces when it became obvious that it would be the snark target du jour. I agree that Johnsie didn’t have enough performance goodwill to set himself up for a well meaning fanbase revolt, but up until then I mostly wanted a Cook/Johns finale for my own entertainment and thought I didn’t care which of them actually won. From Innocent and Analog Heart discovery on, I knew it was Cookie or bust, dammit.

And surprises! I’d love to hear some new DCTA tunes in the infancy stages of the band tinkering before they grow up to be big strong strapping songs. In fact, it would pretty much make my life.

The prospect of surprises is certainly pushing me in the direction of going to that damn Norfolk show… if my *#(*@( job ever pays me!

Sorry for putting Wife on the Moon in your head, seriously . I will try to capture him singing it someday so you get the full effect. Hee!!!

Oh y’all are making me all teary-eyed remembering S7! I’d watched since S1 pretty much. But suddenly, out of NOWHERE (OK Tulsa and KC, MO) this Cook guy changed everything. Late March or so, I searched out Analog Heart on Amazon and that was IT. For. Me. I was gone. Goner than BEFORE I found AH. I got butterflies on performance nights and couldn’t even eat (VERY unusual for me!). On Wednesday mornings, like 3 or 4 times, I forgot to wash my friggin’ hair in the shower, I was so distracted thinking about AI & Cook. I don’t know why it was always forgetting to wash my hair, but it was. I had to get back in the shower after getting out.

I had been into music to some degree pretty much all my life, since about age 9. I had lost interest though, drifting about through country, folky, etc, not finding anything I thought worth BUYING. Then…BAM!! I spent all kinds of $$$ on a new car stereo, iPod, iTunes, CDs, etc etc. I hadn’t been anywhere in years, but I went to 3 AI shows, 2 of them out of town…I had to see him LIVE ASAP! blahblahblah…anyway, here I still am. I traveled to one show this year, then I was down & out with a broken knee for MONTHS. I get to see them THIS WEEKEND again though! WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO! I don’t know what he does to us. He’s one of those people I just FEEL GOOD seeing and hearing. I lub him. I’m glad I’m not a crazy person, all alone in my Cooklove. I KNOW I’m not! YAY!

Y’all were spurred to action by the sadface but for me it was all about the poor misunderstood Charlie hand. He was so damn earnest about it and my heart broke into a thousand little pieces when it became obvious that it would be the snark target du jour.

Oh, well for me the sadface effect was inextricably linked to the poor Not-Penny’s-Boat Charlie hand. He looked sad AND sheepish when Paula pointed it out again, like, crap, am I really that overly earnest? I realized I was invested cuz I just felt for him and couldn’t even snark (even though I did chuckle at the Not-Penny’s-Boat remarks on TWOP, etc.)

I’d love to hear new material, and testing it out on tour is SO the kind of organic thing I’d expect from DC and The Anthemic on the road… but will RCA allow it? Would big bad label let fans hear new songs before they get to plan some big, overly thought out, well marketed release? I dunno…

Sigh, I hope they do allow it. RCA need to lay off the reigns and the band needs a chance to be the band you know? That’s where the magic lies. Lots of bigger acts test out new material on the road…Mraz is pretty infamous for it. Fingers crossed…

He did look sheepish and sad, but in the same token, didn’t back down in the face of Simon’s criticisms, really. I didn’t get the idea that he would take any of it back, the song selection or the Give Back, regardless of how it came off, and people interpretted that as arrogance but I liked the conviction.

Hasn’t Cook mentioned trying out new songs at some point on the tour?

See: Handgate, David’s TWoP thread. I think at the time the consensus was that he most likely asked Carly or MJ to write it for him, which just made it all that much more adorable.

Thank heavens he didn’t have Carly’s husband do it, or it’d still be on there.

By the way, during Season 7, Cook got my attention with “All Right Now.” It just felt to me like I was watching a guy play a guitar, sing his heart out, and connect with an audience … and all of a sudden a reality show broke out. (I’t like that old saying, I was watching a fight and then a hockey game broke out.)

By the way, during Season 7, Cook got my attention with ‘All Right Now.’ 

That was my first notice of him too — maybe it was the arms. lol. He just looked so confident… I wasn’t sure if I loved him yet, but I definitely took notice!

Here’s a somewhat BTS video of the Starseed performance from OLP themselves. I was hoping for a soundboard feed but unfortunately the audio isn’t any better than what’s posted above. But nice front row access and fun backstage glimpses of Dave, Raine, and even Andrew briefly at the end:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHd3DWtmXmM

And count me as another who Cook had at ARN. That performance changed Idol for me forever. I think it was the Les Paul. But it might have been the biceps. Or the upper lip dragging on the mic. Maybe.

First notice: Happy Together. I figured anyone who had the balls to rock that hair on national TV and manage to be almost kinda sorta well actually, yeah, a little sexy, while doing it? Must have some sort of crazy mojo just begging to be unleashed on the unsuspecting public. So, basically for me it kinda went like this…

Week One: Okay, Michael Johns is hot. And Aussie. Which, you know, hot. But there’s something about this David Cook guy…

Week Two: Yeah, MJ, still hot. And Aussie. But David Cook is getting hotter by the week.

Week Mumblety something, Hello: Hmmm, MJ, I’m not feeling you as much. Is David Cook amazing or what?

Beatles Week: Awww, Across the Universe. Poor MJ, so underrated. Cook is a rawk stah!

Billie Jean Week: Oh hai MJ. HOLY David effing COOK! *trying not to flail*

Dolly Parton Week: Oh MY, MJ. I need a smoke. Oh noes, they cut Cook’s hair so shorrrrt. And dressed him like an elementary school teacher. Who is hot. But the acoustic guitar and falsetto = still awesome.

Innocent Week: ZOMG, my boys got harshed. Must. save. COOK! Did I just say that? Yes I did. Sorry mate. The heart wants what the heart wants.

Must find this Analog Heart and check it out. I hope it doesn’t suck….

Annnnd scene.

I’m part of the cliche “He had me at Hello”. Honestly, I’m not sure I noticed David before, but he was pretty much all I noticed after that performance. Seriously, months later, I went back, searched, and found my old posts in a small Idol forum I posted to back then (before I found TWoP and MJs), and the week of ARN David’s performance was the only one I forgot about and didn’t review. Then a week later came Hello and my interest in Cook went from zero to All Cook All the Time. IIRC I found most if not all of Analog Heart within the next two weeks, and hearing (and loving) his original songs made me a fan for life.
Fact is, over a year later, Cook is still the only Idol I remotely care about. His season is the only Idol season I’ve watched start to finish. I guess I’m not an Idol fan, I’m a DC fan. Idol was just my path to discover him, I guess.

I was a super-casual, late-in-the-competition AI viewer, but tuned in earlier S7 due to the writers’ strike, and I have to say DC’s audition stood out right away and he was actually my favorite audition.

And then I saw only bits of Hollywood week, and liked Carly, MJ, and Ramiele, and forgot all about DC. I watched the semi’s with detached interest. I think I like Ramiele for a sec, then became a Brooke fan. The only reason I remembered DC at all before Hello was for his somewhat endearing, somewhat embarrassing Word Nerd bit, and I felt BAAAD for him when he talked back to Simon and got reamed. I mean, his FACE! I could tell that this is a guy who, despite making a little bit of a wise-ass comment which got blown out of proportion, is not normally arrogant, and used to being quite respectful of others. They even played a little clip of him heading back stage during results night and he looked sooo remorseful.

But then I saw Hello and I was like, wow, kinda hot! But I still barely connected this guy to the auditioner I liked at first. Thought Eleanor Rigby was decent, but Billie Jean was another wow moment, though not “hot” so much as, “amazingly talented”. Then came Little Sparrow and the haircut, the scary story about his blood pressure, his adorable disappointment after Innocent, and before I knew it, I was reading everything I could about him online, realized what an awesome guy he was, and how talented he was, and I was sooo gone.

Was this posted? Cookie w/OLP on Starseed, from OLP’s official site. Really cool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHd3DWtmXmM

^^ ladymadonna actually posted it a little while ago, and thanks to both of you for bringing the Cookie crumbs over!

Also, sma11ie, you reminded me that the WordNerd video was also the standout DC moment for me prior to Hello. I remember finding that video of him a lot more charming and memorable than anything else I’ve seen of him up to that point. Goes to show how silly Simon was, thinking it did David a disservice.

Oh aren’t we funny? Look how much we like to talk about that S7 and our incredible dark horse winner. Didn’t y’all love it when that confetti fell on his big ol’ head?

Oh yeah, I loved it when Simon said the “word nerd” clip made David booooooooring. I thought Oh YOU are WRONG, mister! Us smart women like smart men. All that talent and being SMOKIN’ don’t hurt none neither. hee.

I got to the point where I added a text plan to my damn cell phone so I could vote for him 2 different ways, a phone in each hand. Geez. But I had SO MUCH FUN! And I still am having so much fun. Being a David Cook fan right now is great. Just great.

Aww! I’m late to this party. I love that he gets to on occasion hang out with and perform with the OLP dudes. In KC no less.
I’m one of the odd folks he got with Innocent. The song choice was so WTF, it started off so trainwreckish and he wanted so badly to do it justice, you could feel it through the TV. There was something so totally un-artificial about the whole performance that he just got me. And I used to mock the hell out of AI and all those associated with it. Karma’s a bitch.

Loving the memories, y’all, and thanks for more presents.

Anyone else having trouble getting into any threads? I can’t get into the headlines or mediabase threads. Sigh.

I’ve skimmed this thread and don’t see this video of Starseed posted. It’s pretty good video (includes the wizard of oz group) and the audio is better than most that I’ve heard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O74L_PzquhI

^^^ That is a good vid. Thanx dude. Raine and David were in the same frame for most of it, which I enjoyed. Ahem.

Raine and David were in the same frame for most of it, which I enjoyed. Ahem.

Hee, me too! So many handsome men, so many handsome men. *Sigh*

I am late returning to the party and I babbled a big “How I Got Hooked on Cookie” posting on DCO the other day but… I liked his voice at first but thought he (hangs head in shame) looked like the Joker. I don’t know why, looking back now… well, I sure don’t see him in the same way. Noticed him a bit on All Right Now, still liked Michael Johns best I think? Hello really did make me say HELLO?! My mom and I talk on the phone after Idol since nobody watches it with us at our houses (well, until my husband became an Allison fan this year) and I remember talking about that. Billie Jean was a WTF?! moment and I was blown away by the voice… Little Sparrow, however, I was completely in love with the guy AND the voice. And then it just got worse from there, heart-on-his-sleeve tearful Always Be My Baby Cookie, sad face earnest Innocent Cookie, I still am madly in love with All I Really Need Is You and TWIK which was the most gorgeous performance, then tears, then that *#(@*#(#(* Simon punched my Cookie in the gut and I voted my fingers off. And of course the couldn’t-be-better finale with the win, the tears, the Andrew “that’s my brother.” Five live shows each progressively more awesome, Race for Hope (I was there) which broke my heart and made me respect him more than ever all at the same time… well, here I am, still, looking for Cookie crumbs and watching every video that is fed to me. No wonder I had no energy to get invested in anyone this past season.

Also late to the party (tm wheezie_v), but how awsome for Dave to be singing with OLP on the KC Live stage. Love the “yeah, yeah, yeahs”, but funny to watch him try to reign himself in to sing back up and not steal the whole smokin show. As good as he is at harmonizing, the performer in him *needs* to sing lead, IMO.

Jolene
11/02/2009 at 5:18 pm
Also, sma11ie, you reminded me that the WordNerd video was also the standout DC moment for me prior to Hello. I remember finding that video of him a lot more charming and memorable than anything else I’ve seen of him up to that point. Goes to show how silly Simon was, thinking it did David a disservice.

Still can’t really get over Simon comparing that video unfavorably to, ummm, race car driving. Simon doesn’t know much about women apparently. ARN was the performance that made me notice Dave, and I probably would have said he was my favorite guy at that point, but ER was when he made me care. Has anybody ever shown that much joy on the stage after a performance, while at the same time making you so aware of how long and hard the journey had been to get there?

I came back to post the link to the nexhexster video but wordnerdarchie beat me to it. : ) It’s definitely the best yet though — you can see and hear Raine much better than on the others.

I also came back to finish reading the thread and just wanted to say *thank you* to those of you who got ON TASK and voted your fingers off for DC after “Innocent” and the finale. Without you guys I wouldn’t have seen that amazing AI commercial last year and felt compelled to check out the new record by this smoking hot intriguing guy David Cook, whom I’d never heard of before. And it’s totally your fault that I fell down the AI rabbit hole and never looked back. Well, and DC’s fault too. He had a little something to do with it.

Attn twitter stalkers (you know who you are)…Steve Queek. That’s all, just Steve. Queek. Heeee…..

Attn twitter stalkers (you know who you are)…Steve Queek. That’s all, just Steve. Queek. Heeee…..

http://twitter.com/stevequeek

I love the string of tweets to get to “steve queek” –

andyskib
@thedavidcook what is it again? Kyle…Teek?

thedavidcook
@andyskib Teek? Meek? Neek? Queek?

thedavidcook
@andyskib Steve Queek feels right. You know, our drummer, @stevequeek….

And then Steve Queek says…
stevequeek
@thedavidcook totally made me do this…

Steve Queek! Too funny. I just love that whole band.

Ahahahahaha! I was following that conversation (er, not in a stalkery way… really) and thought it was a joke. The sheepish tweet you get at the end as you follow the cookie crumbs is the best payoff ever.

Heh DC just twittered Steve is not Kyle. Lol

Oh no! Not the best payoff but a great big burn. Very funny Steve, whoever you are. *g*

Kyle totally needs to join twitter as “thestevequeek” now…

I really don’t like the baseball hats, sorry. It really does NOT take that much to keep your hair good-looking, David… can’t you spare 15 minutes every couple of weeks or so?

PS: sorry but I realized there was too little hair discussion in this DC thread!