[michelej1]

Nico,

I suppose it's too easy to say that Will looks like Lindsey just because he has brown hair that tends to be curly, but I think he does. I can't really tell if the girls look like him, although back when they did that People magazine lay out, Lee Lee's eyes reminded me of Lindsey's.

As for the rest of the show, about a half hour beforehand the kids were playing on the stage. I'm sure the set up crew appreciated that! The audience was pretty spare, still filing in, but when the girls started to do hand stands and acrobatics, people in the audience applauded them. The kids all had on GOS t-shirts. The boys had on white and the girls had on red/brown. Stella was the smallest child there and she liked the audience. Just as she did at the end of the show, before it started, she was standing on the apron of the stage, looking into the audience and waving. She also amused herself by pushing over any of the bigger kids trying to achieve hand stands. A diva in training.

Kristen looked like she not only had the whole school of children with her, but all of her friends and household staff too. It seemed to be more of them than there were seats to hold them. It took them awhile to get situated. Stella was holding her nanny's hand as she waited to be seated in the audience.

I was closer to the speakers this time than I ever was before and when the pounding beat of Great Day started, the thump, thump, thump felt like my heart leaping against my chest.

Before Trouble started Lindsey said his new album came out Tuesday. When people hollered that they had it, he said we should keep getting it. He said many of us know that Los Angeles is his home and he has lots of friends in the audience, in addition to his family. He mentioned them, his wife Kristen, and each of the kids by name and said that he loved them very much.

When he introduced Big Love, Lindsey said that he left FM in an attempt to regain his insanity, which caused everyone to laugh. He then added that he did it to regain his sanity and individuality too. He talked about how his life had changed since he met his wife just over 10 years ago and says that the original meaning of Big Love is now firmly rooted in the past.

I don't really like the studio versions of Come or World Turning, but I am enjoying both songs more on this tour than I did on the SYW tour.

He did It Was You between Big Love and Did You Miss Me. As part of the Big Love intro he also mentioned that the solo version he does became a template for a lot of other songs he's written since then. So, I guess he's noticed what the critics have been saying about the fast finger picking songs becoming ubiquitous.

When it was time to acknowledge the band he said, "I'd like to introduce the band . . . that's it." He turned around as if that was all he had to say and then laughed at his own joke. He mentioned that Wally came from a family of great percussionists.

I thought GYOW was especially sizzling, with the crowd so into it.

I was sorry to see "Family Night" on the GOS tour end.

Lindsey and the guys will now be leaving the California area and I sure will miss following the tour. But I look forward to reading about all of its changes and twists of fate in reviews from other fans.

Michele