Under The Skin Tour Stories
 

Here is the Under The Skin tour stories topic. Please share any special moments and all your memories from this tour.

Thank you - can't wait to read the stories because I know very little about this tour. The setlists seem very exciting.

Since I'm lazy, I'll repost the review I wrote for The Legacy:

My show was prefaced by one of the scariest things to ever happen to me. While coming to Redding the Sunday of the show, I was in a car accident, my first. We discovered the rental car I was in had loose lug nuts on the left rear tire which is what sent our car out of control and into the side of a mountain. Our other option would have been to fall off the side of the cliff. Thankfully my friends and I were okay and we were able to get to Redding by way of a taxi cab. It certainly was a scary way to start the day.

I've been to Redding many, many times, but this was the first time I've ever been to the Redding Convention Center. It was a nice building, kind of in its own place in town. I was nervous for reasons I won't go into while sitting in the front row. For me, this night would be one of those once in a lifetime opportunities. I don't know if I will ever have the opportunity to see Lindsey Buckingham again, solo or with Fleetwood Mac even.

Not Too Late - To be honest, I haven't been able to get myself into this song. However, I have to say that seeing Lindsey play it live really opened my eyes to it. I won't say it's a favorite now, but I appreciate it more today than I did before.

Trouble - I'm not ashamed to admit that this song brought tears to my eyes. I love the twist that he gave this song, from what the album version was/is to what this current live version is. It was so beautiful to hear live and in person.

Never Going Back Again - This old standard got a huge roar of approval from the crowd. It's not one of my favorites, but it was great to see live.

Second Hand News - The thing I loved about this was that it didn't sound very different from the Fleetwood Mac version. I actually believe I prefer this one to the one I heard on the last Mac tour.

Castaway Dreams - The tears came back to me on this one. I'm a sentimental person and this is a sentimental song. Those two things combined with everything going on just brought tears to my eyes.

Red Rover - I've never appreciated this song until I saw it live. I loved Lindsey's growling vocals during the "red rover, red rover part." The lighting effects were pretty neat-o as well.

It Was You - Great song. I was fortunate to be a part of the cheering section that cheered after William, Leelee and Stella were mentioned.

Big Love - I apologize if I'm too graphic here but Lindsey grabbed the crowd by the preverbial balls on this one.

Go Insane - I'm not going to say I was disappointed in this number, but I like the way Lindsey performed it during The Dance. But again, it was amazing to see him sing and play live.

Under The Skin - I think this song was really meant to be performed live. The performance definitely made my eyes well up again.

World Turning - Awesome. I liked Alfredo Reyes' solo, but I prefer Mick's... without all the yelling and spitting and unintelligible words.

I'm So Afraid - One word: amazing.

I Know I'm Not Wrong - It was great to hear this song live. I wish the solo would have gone on a bit more and maybe been a lot like the solo for Blue Letter.

Tusk - It's always fun to see this one performed live. This one sounded different from the Say You Will tour one, which I liked.

Go Your Own Way - Like it always does, it brought the house down and it also made the females want to grope and paw Lindsey when he was at the front of the stage.

Holiday Road - Lindsey's barking and howling... hilarious and shameless.

Turn It On - Never cared for the studio version but the live version was awesome.

Band Introductions - Yay for the band.

Show You How - A great performance, but for me the studio version captures a certain quality that just can't be matched.

Shut Us Down - I had tears again... because I knew that this was the end of that once in a lifetime opportunity. I had a hard time focusing on this performance because I didn't want this moment to end... but it had to, and it did.

Of course, the show went above and beyond my expectations, which is what I expected. My biggest disappointment was the "fans" who constantly got up out of their seats to get boozed up, or the ones who didn't seem to be into the show. It was definitely worth nearly getting killed to see Lindsey perform live. It's one of those goals in life that I've met and that means a lot too.

Matt

That was such a great tour!!
I live in So Fla and when I heard LB was going on tour - woo hoo!! BUT then I found out he wasn't even coming close to So Fla.... so I booked a flight to Denver - flew in on Monday - went and had a fabulous dinner at a restaurant next to the theater and then went to the show. I think I had an out of body experience. Tenth row-center seat -and seeing the person who's guitar speaks to my soul!! I think it was the first concert I've ever seen that I looovvved every single song! The sound was great, LB in a good mood and sounding awesome... It was perfect. I also met some really cool people... we ended up going to, I think, the Hard Rock afterwards. The next morning, I hopped on a plane and went home. It was a wonderful 36 hours!

Shortly after that, it was announced that LB was coming to Ft. Lauderdale!! Well... I just had to see that show too! And no offense to the hometown crowd, but the Denver audience was a lot more into it, more responsive, well, just plain more fun! They made the trip even more fabulous. I travel for a living, so it wasn't cuz I was out of town that it seemed that way either - Denver was just more fun.

I saw him on the GOS tour in Boston - but that's another thread I guess...

um, at the pittsburgh show, marissa, kate, and i were on stage with LB for a hot minute.

and then marissa got to play the barking dogs on holiday road. LOL.

I was SO at that show and remember that. You all were cute!

I think LB was in a great mood. I had front row seats and was super hyper (as always) and he kept laughing, pointing, smiling, etc. during some key parts of songs right at me. I wish I actually took pics to prove it, but it's the truth.

You're very thorough with these!

I saw this tour 3 times. Once at Park West, then the House of Blues in Chicago, and then his final show at Summerfest in Milwaukee. I first began using a digital camera and recording footage during this tour. I was always afraid of getting caught. Security really depended on the venue. The guy at the Park West was a major asshole, however this was the best of the shows. The stage is so low to the ground both band and audience could have walked on and off it, which made it a little surreal. Everyone I talked to at these shows was super nice and very into it. Of course I don't know about the people farther back, all us hardcores tend to be in the front.

The Summerfest show was kind of a drag, however. I had these obnoxious teenagers sitting next to me who had raided their parent's medicine cabinet.:rolleyes: Seriously they had an altoid tin filled with all sorts of prescription pills! What happened to good old fashioned underage drinking? Plus some people from behind tried to move up and got into a physical fight with some other people. Security was non-existent and there was a lot of pushing and shoving. I remember having a non-verbal conversation with Brett Tuggle at the time (gesturing). Nobody knew what to do. Somehow it resolved itself, but this is generally why I hate Summerfest. No crowd control. Lindsey also played past curfew, and my waiting friends were not happy! I also remember I had just finished Carol Ann's book and was a little ambivalent about seeing the show. I know she probably exaggerated in her book, but I still found it to be a disturbing read. However, I got over my ambivalence pretty quickly, especially after Lindsey waved at me. I'm way too easy to please.

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_Y3RODLQ5lGM/Ro...2/DSCN0435.JPG

My favorite picture I took during this tour.:) I know other fans had some amazing experiences on this tour, so hopefully you'll get some better stories! Like the ones posted while I was typing this out!

I was at the Cincinnati, OH show. Had 2nd row seats, dead center. The details are a bit fuzzy now, but the most memorable moment was his impromptu "Bwana." Another one of my favorites from the night was "Red Rover." I thought it was good on the SYW tour, but even better at this show.

Saw the Portland gig at the Newmark- pretty good crowd. It was nice to hear the title track performed live. I skipped the Aladdin Theatre gig the following summer- "been there, done that". Its a shame he didn't have the balls to perform "Down On Rodeo" (presumably because Kristen was following him around- I'm 98% sure she was at the Newmark show), arguably the best track on a middling album. Its a shame this tour went on so long compared to how brief the GOS tour was, because GOS is such a far superior album to tour behind.

Funny story- my old company in Chicago promoted the Park West shows, which took place shortly after I left the company & moved to Portland. When I talked to my buddy- the talent buyer who bought the shows- his main recollection of the gigs revolved around a certain "bat**** crazy and obnoxious" (his words) woman who caused a scene. I almost immediately recognized this person was indeed one of the more- shall we say, ardent- Lindsey fans on this board. Now, keep in mind this guy is a 20-year veteran of the industry and has seen & dealt with it all, yet he was able to recall almost every detail over a year after these shows took place. To protect her insanity, she'll remain nameless (she has yet to post in this thread).

I was just going to say, it wasn't me! And yes I do remember this person's activities on the night I went. She certainly is a fan! Was your friend the one busting all of us for taking pictures? I hope not, because he was a real jerk. He had this notebook where he kept taking notes or something, very bizarre.

My friend & Lindsey's tour manager were chit-chatting in the wings backstage, and both noticed this particular person's hijinks at roughly the same time. They both agreed she was a security risk for other patrons & possibly Lindsey himself, and directed the steward of the security staff (a great company- I used them for most all of my Chicago shows & for 100% of my Park West events) to address the situation. Considering that this was a request that came directly from Lindsey's management, I have every confidence that they acted as appropriately as they felt they needed to. There was legitimate concern.

I'm not sure if it was the same person who kept you from taking pictures (Park West has a no camera policy), but I wouldn't be surprised if security progressively got stricter as a direct result of the lunatic.

Why would she care if he did DOR?

Yeah, he did it for Soundstage and Kristen was there.

Michele

I wonder if this is why the rest of his solo shows in Chicago have been at the HOB, it has a much higher stage! Plus you get wanded before you go in!:laugh:

The Park West shows lost a bunch of money (then again, I doubt many LB solo gigs have made the promoter any money)- that's why they passed on the repeat UTS Chicago visit, and the GOS tour. No upside (especially since the '09 FM tour was going to Live Nation anyways)

Yes (although it was at an encore towards the end of the Soundstage taping). I was trying to give Lindsey the benefit of the doubt. Its just obnoxious when Lindsey complains about the promotion of his albums when, at his direction, "Down On Rodeo" is mentioned as one of the singles on the sticker affixed to the cover. Its not like we didn't already identify Lindsey as a self-absorbed asshole, but why add "hypocritical" to the mix?

I think Down on Rodeo is a commercial song and it doesn't take any chutzpah to perform. If he backed out of performing Red Rover or Murrow or even Come, I could see your point, but not performing DOR is in no way selling out. Not Too Late , Shut Us Down and Under the Skin (the song) are much more adventurous choices than DOR. I think DOR would have been more popular live. So, while it might have been wise for him to perform it, I don't think it was at all hypocritical or lacking in courage to pass it over.

He does play it safe too often for my liking. He could have dropped Holiday Road. He could stop playing Big Love when he makes promotional appearances. He could quit saying that the fans expect Rumours songs. But I can't think of a single thing that's unsafe about DOR. It could easily have been one of the 3 pop songs featured (CAD, Show You How and It Was You being the others) before the album was released to entice casual listeners.

Michele

Speaking of DOR....At my first UTS show in Boston, I was yelling for DOR and after BTLH he goes "Did I hear someone say Rodeo?" And of course I went nuts and then he did the song!

Later in the tour....Turn it On...enough said. I nearly keeled over.

Fair enough, but why would Lindsey find it appropriate to make snarky comments on-stage about the record label not promoting his album (re: "Did You Miss Me"/GOS tour) if he couldn't have been bothered to perform the most accessible & arguably the best overall track (and only THE FOCUS OF ALL MARKETING EFFORTS) from the UTS album on the tour supporting said album? Because he's a smug ass? Oh, that's right.

DOR wasn't the only focus of all marketing efforts. CAD, Show You How and It Was You received a lot of publicity.

When he made comments about the record company not promoting his GOS album, he also remarked that the record company chose the poppy Did You Miss Me as the single. Maybe that wouldn't have been his choice. Maybe omitting DOR doesn't contradict the comments he made on stage during the GOS tour, but reinforces them. Maybe he didn't put Down on Rodeo in the setlist because he wanted to expose less commercial songs in the slot that DOR would have held. Since he had to perform the 3 songs that were released before UTS came out, along with GYOW, Holiday Road and Trouble, maybe he felt that there just wasn't room for one more "safe" play.

Furthermore, DOR was pretty well known among fans already and maybe he wanted to showcase the songs from the album that were less familiar.

I had a problem with Lindsey not doing OOTC songs. And I had an even bigger problem when he told us he was going to do them next tour and then all we got was Don't Look Down. So, I don't approve of his setlist choices 100% and I don't think disagree that he's smug. But the criticism you're leveling about the exclusion of DOR seems to prove the presence of his testicles, rather than refute their presence, as you've charged.

Michele

I still don't get what that has to do with Kristen... :shrug:

If I had been lucky enough to see Lindsey during any solo tour, I certainly wouldn't have complained about the set list!!:lol:

Was the song (DOR) written for/about former girlfriend Anne Heche?

The Drive, 97.1

The Set List http://www.wdrv.com/blog_stroud.php

Posted: Thursday, 10/26/2006 at 12:10am by Bob Stroud

I saw Lindsey Buckingham a few nights ago at the Park West. Lindsey's a trip. He's intense and focused, loose and raucous. He's touring in support of only his 4th solo CD in the past 25 years, "Under the Skin." I love this CD because it demands your attention. You can't have it on in the backround and expect to get anything out of it. You've got to be adult about it, sit down and pay attention. Your effort will be rewarded after 2 or 3 listens with gorgeously constructed melodies, and deeply personal lyrics. The whole affair is rather ethereal and eclectic....right up my alley. Buckingham and his band beautifully recreated the handful of songs chosen to perform from the new release. He filled out the rest of the set with selections from past solo efforts and of course the obligatory Fleetwood Mac nuggets. Which brings me to my point. The reviewer in the Sun Times quibbled with Buckingham's set list, (he also got snotty about Buckingham choosing to wear a v-neck t-shirt at his age.....HUH?) complaining that he should leave the Fleetwood Mac material for Fleetwood Mac and concentrate on lesser known and in some cases, unknown solo material.... not that there's anything wrong with that. Yet there is when you don't balance it out with a dose, if not a healthy dose of familiar, tried and true hits and near misses. Fans love the hits. They love to HEAR the hits. You can tell time after time by the reaction they get when the song begins AND ends. A buddy of mine saw Neil Young a couple of years ago and was wholly disappointed because Young chose to play nothing but his new CD that had just been released. He did offer up a couple of classics for the encore but that was it as far as familiar material was concerned. My buddy felt cheated. I hear it all the time from fans who are disappointed when the artist doesn't play enough of the songs that they've come to hear. Hey, in a perfect world we could all program what we think our favorite artists should play in concert. But it's not perfect and we're at the mercy of the artist to mix it up with hits and "deep tracks." And for the most part, the professional up on stage does a pretty good job of coming through with a memorable set list. Or does he? What's your take? When you go to see a classic artist, do you want to hear his greatest hits with a few deep tracks and 1 or 2 new songs, or would you be more than content in hearing nothing but the new CD? Guranteed your friendly neighborhood newspaper reviewer would vote for the latter.

great whole show in Wisconsin
 

someone shared the whole UTS tour stop Oct 17 2006 Wisconsin (it might have been in one of recent threads here too, i can't remember where i first saw it). the setlist was insane, with 3 by-request gorgeously performed encores - Rodeo, Save Me A Place and Bleed To Love Her. :nod::]:thumbsup:

love having this, and listening and watching it just makes me sad thinking he may never perform like this again.

PRIMARY SET:
1:22 Not Too Late
6:58 Trouble
11:21 Never Going Back Again
15:14 Second Hand News
18:59 Introduction To:
20:34 Cast Away Dreams
25:11 Introduction To:
25:25 "Fail"
26:16 Red Rover
30:59 It Was You
34:44 Big Love
38:32 Poem To:
39:17 Go Insane
44:21 Introduction To:
44:50 Under the Skin
49:19 World Turning
52:34 Cajon Solo
55:42 I'm So Afraid
1:04:25 I Know I'm Not Wrong
1:08:43 Tusk
1:13:30 Go Your Own Way

ENCORE:
1:19:28 Holiday Road
1:22:37 Band Introduction
1:25:23 Show You How
1:30:52 Down on Rodeo
1:36:07 Save Me a Place
1:42:16 Bleed to Love Her