[michelej1]

I will say that I feel sad when people who haven't gone assess the show via youtube. I don't care how good the clip is, what you see on youtube and what you hear there does not compare to what you get live. I mean, sometimes even something as basic as tempo sounds different in person than it did on youtube, not to mention visual perspective and context. I just don't think it's a good way to make a decision or comparison.

My friend went to see a Letterman taping last week and then when he watched at home he said it was funnier on tv than it was when he was in the studio. Well, for music I think it invariably works the other way around.

For me, once I know the script, then I start to evaluate even the slightest deviations and wonder why they're there. So, the sameness actually provides more meaning to every detour. I know with the Say You Will tour, the way Lindsey introduced Say Goodbye every night, when he switched up at the end and started talking to Stevie, teasing her about whether she liked his intro or not and then said, "it's been too many years, maybe it hasn't been enough," I just felt swept away and it was precisely because I knew what he'd been saying every night that I was struck so hard when he did not say it.

Michele