Great review, I was gonna write one, but only got back home this morning.
This was only the second show I've seen. I saw Cleveland at the beginning of the leg and then Cincy this weekend. The show was much more polished, but I could tell that they were rushing a few songs. (To get out of the heat I guess.)
I'll just add a few thoughts since Nancy's review pretty much got it all on the nose.....
...Was it me, or were the sound people playing crickets before the show?
...Have they started playing Albatross after the show? THAT was a nice surprise, and it was nice walking to the car with that running through my head.
...Lindsey giving up on the sped-up, stale performance of Tusk and going wild running around the stage....that was awesome
...Why doesn't Stevie put the same energy into all of her tunes the way she does Stand Back?
...Where were the tourbooks? There were quite a few new shirt designs, but nothing all that great and I was really hoping to get a book.
...The Riverfront stage was very small, which made the show MUCH better. The backup band were set back more so that I barely saw them and the loss of the video backdrop made the show better, IMHO.
Altogether the show was amazing, one of the best I've seen of all the Mac tours I've seen. The only bummer was spending as much as we did on tickets and still we cannot seem to get any better than 30 rows back. I dunno how some of you Ledgies are doing it, but God bless ya, and I'm glad at least some real fans are getting up front instead of radio station employees.
I've seen a lot of bootlegs of this tour and nothing even comes close to seeing it live, even with ****ty seats.
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