ok, let's see whether i can follow redtulip's example of pointing out certain moments that stand out for some of the shows i saw:
Sacramento CA
San Francisco CA (the fillmore! great performance, great venue, tons of crowd interaction)
Redding CA
Wilmington DE (Abbi and i with a little help from our friends (Eugene!) got LB to perform Rock Away Blind, only the second time on this tour!)
Baltimore MD
Pittsburgh PA
Columbus OH (probably the best audience i've seen on this tour, great interactions, Rock Away Blind!)
Chicago IL
Chicago IL (Walk a Thin Line! Rock Away Blind! enough said
)
Green Bay WI
Lake Supierior WI (the tent show! it was another great performance, LB was on fire yet again)
Asheville NC (great acoustics, great performance but the moat
. snippet of Rodeo!)
Knoxville TN (promise of a request portion of the show on a future tour, with a full description of how that might be set up)
San Francisco (Fillmore!) and Asheville (The Peel!) may have been the best shows acoustic- and performance-wise. but there were no special encores, and while audience and interactions were great, they were probably not my personal favorites if i have to choose.
Columbus audience interaction was superb - the audience there was on fire and LB was feeding off of it. he also did Rock Away Blind as additional encore there.
and then there was the second night in Chicago.
interaction with the audience that whole night was great, but reached a climax during encores, when we got 2 requests, one of them being a verse of never before performed Walk A Thin Line. so this would probably be my personal favorite of the shows i saw.
on a more personal note, although nobody would probably put the Bijou / Knoxville show on the top of this list, i have to give it a mention because of tons of bantering and personal interaction with LB throughout that whole show (
Lindsfan usually characterizes this as the embarrassing moments of elle continually picking a fight with LB during his show). either way, it was a thrill and i enjoyed it immensely, even if we couldn't get him to do Gone Too Far, or Underground, not even Rodeo.
