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Originally Posted by london
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We met ledgies elle and Amlyn before the show and had a good time at dinner. Thanks for the memories!
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ok, i'm back home. for those who have heard my traffic horror story driving up to NY (over and over, i know...), i'm happy to report it took just a bit over 5 hrs and no traffic to get back.
london and Amlyn - it was really great to meet you and others with you! and WelshWitchPMD - always love seeing you :xoxo:
just a quick review since i'm a bit tired and others have already given you the flavor of ridgefield, so i'll roll both westhampton and ridgefield into one review.
westhampton - i was going to get there early and meet w/ Sahara and Steve to see whether we can catch lindsey and the band before the soundcheck. i won't tire you out with NJT and NYC traffic reports, but lets just say driving around there on the rainy friday afternoon spells disaster = hrs of traffic jams. so i barely made it and was late for the concert even though i left DC at 10am. i came in during trouble. westhampton is a great miniature venue - i was at the entrance waiting for trouble to end to get to my seat and was surprised to see lindsey almost right in front of me - that's how small it is. lindsey and the band were great and audience was into it, but a bit tame. there were several girls dancing to almost every song, but it was almost like people were afraid to get up or go near the stage. finally when GYOW started i grabbed Steve and one of the girls dancing in the front rows and pushed them upfront (girl kept thanking me later - she said she didn't know we can actually go upfront; she also got a hug from LB after the show :cool: - he really notices everybody in front of him in the audience). so there were only maybe 10+ people dancing in front of the stage during GYOW and TIO, when suddenly i noticed Sahara there at the other end of the stage (we never met before) - felt almost like ledgie fraternity upfront there at the stage! it was also Brett's bday so the whole audience sang "happy birthday Brett Tuggle" and Brett and LB seemed pleasantly surprised that people knew his name!
i have to say the songs i probably liked the most in WH were the songs i normally complain about - Stars, Sorrows. other songs that i love i spoiled a bit by singing them so couldn't really get the experience of
really hearing them. and liked Turn it on a lot in WH - LOVED it in ridgefield! TIO is at such a perfect place in the set:nod:.
so that's it, Sahara, Steve and i had our little international LB fan gathering after the show and closed some bar on the main street - loved the bartender who let us stay way after the closing time.:wavey:
on to ridgefield. you heard it / read it all already in the messages above, so i'll just say - westhampton was great, but ridgefiled was just spectacular!!:] crowd was great and LB+the band were feeding off the crowd and adoration like crazy - it's a great small venue in some old school, you can barely find it - but wow! LB commented people are making a lot of noise for such small place - that he feels like he's back at some arena w/ FM! and it showed - as others had already said, he was loving it and was really on fire - tons of people on the stage at the end of ISA, everybody else standing all the way through the end, and jumping up and down, LB high-fiving people left and right and letting everybody strum his guitar. he makes a great eye contact with people and every person really feels like he's playing just for you. GoldDustWoman22 - loved it how he deliberately looked through the crowd teasing and selecting who he'll give the towel to, and he totally picked you (i won't comment further, but have to say you look a bit like very young SN). TIO was great, and it seemed like
everybody was singing along with Treason. even SWS that i don't particularly love as a closer was spectacular yesterday. tons of people waited in the back by the buses after the show, and Neale and Brett chatted with people for a long time. finally Walfredo and LB came out shielded by the security and walked fast to the bus, no m&g last night - looking at Nico's Pitt review, i think LB stops for smaller crowds, but just walks by really fast when there's too many people. can't find a fault with that - especially since they were immediately on to Boston which will be their 4th show in a row! (i did manage to give Walfredo my list of what i'd love to hear in one of the upcoming shows (it's a long list...:sorry: - but i'd be eternally grateful if i'd get to hear
any one of those songs during encore) - he didn't know what the h* i was giving him and probably threw it in the trash first thing after he entered the bus :rolleyes:. btw,
love Walfredo - he's such a cool and incredibly nice guy to meet (loved his singing along to Treason!) - when he saw us before the show he was like - hey you guys drove all the way over from WH?!?!?! and i do think Walfredo especially is a really good influence on LB, musically. maybe i'm just imaging things, though.:shrug: oh, and i'll let london tell you all an anecdote about the little walk that some rock star took around the block before the soundcheck - if she feels so inclined - it's not my story to tell.
so, have to say - this was
definitely worth a trip - lindsey is unbelievable - amazing guitar, best voice he ever had, amazing and infectious energy; the band is great - both sublime and rocking as needed; and seeing this show just once is definitely not enough:nod:. even though the setlist is the same (so far, hope RAB will make it's way into it soon:] - and although i have a special fondness for Love minus zero i know that won't happen!), the feeling and the performance is different every night - and everybody seemed to even love lindsey's little speeches introducing the songs (even sounded fresh to me, however unbelievable that seems!).
after reading all other reviews for shows so far and talking to people before and after shows this weekend, i think ridgefield was by far the best one so far - and i am really really happy that i got to be a part of it!!
