For those who thinks these sound like the studio versions, go listen to them again. She is clearly performing this live. She still sounds great, don’t get me wrong but it is clearly not a mixed and produced song for a CD.
Spectacular performance. That band is rock-solid. Michelle was and is magnificent. She is still writing, recording and touring to this day. We should remember they are promoting the then-new album Hotel Paper, and they're probably making an effort to reproduce the sound of the record. They absolutely nailed that with Are You Happy Now. All You Wanted is an older song and by now they've played it hundreds of times. The band again duplicated the album version closely, but Michelle took some liberties so to speak. I think she was having fun with it at this point. Fun fact time. When Michelle was touring, she also wrote songs (which I believe she still does). Many songs were written on stationery from the hotels Michelle was staying at. That is where the name of the album came from-Hotel Paper.
That's Kenny Aronoff on the drums, who recorded on this album and others with Michelle. In the studio musician world, if you're looking for one of "the best of the best of the best", you hire Kenny. Michelle is just ridiculously good as well at *20 YEARS OLD* - insane!
