Portland, Seattle and Spokane Shows!!

[Lindsfan]

I was lucky enough to attend all three shows here, in the beatiful Pacific NW. All three were amazing experiences. I posted some about Portland already, so hopefully, the MODS can move that over here ( along with any other Portland talk ( currently in the "...solo tour under way" thread ).

So I'll star with my Spokane review since it was most recent ( Monday night ) and freshest on my mind...

SPOKANE:
Nobody at the stage until GYOW, but it didn't matter...he could feel ( and hear! ) the love all night. All night he was really smiling and laughing a lot, and he seemed especially relaxed and at ease with us. He played everything just beautifully - as always. The crowd was really quiet during songs...not much whooping and cat calling or whatever. Just digging the music, but being real respectful. The venue seemed sooo small ( though it holds about 750 people - the bacony was twice the size of the lower section ), that I think people just didn't feel the need to get closer - they already were! There were a few people up front, though, that would step forward, fists pumping, but usually after standing O's everyone sat back down...until he started GYOW! THEN, everone stood up to dance, but were also too hesitant to go to the stage for whatever reason ( way too polite, I guess? ). Soooo, I said to my seat mate, let's go! And we did That's all it took, and everyone followed Well, Lindsey went to his left first for beginning of the solo, and then, as I knew he would, he crossed over to our side. We were right at the main front speaker on the left ( Lindsey's right ), and correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I've heard, he hasn't let anyone strum the M1 on this tour yet ( I guess, as he has to keep in time with his looped rhythm track? ) BUT!!!!! I was reaching up so obviously, I guess - and not at him, but, clearly at the neck of the guitar, so he came in real close and lowered the guitar towards me ( I feel like I'm writing a romance novel - lol ). Then, when I was about to strum it, he pulled back and kinda laughed, like "gotcha!" . Funny, Linds But then he came right back down and got it low enough that I couldn't miss it, and he couldn't get away So I strummed it happily!! He liked that, I could tell. Then a few others tried also ( since I showed 'em how! ), and then he came back by me again and gave me one last strum. It was great. After the show, we went to the stage door - which was only about 50 feet from the front door ( VERY small venue ), and there he was!! People were so calm and nice, instead of the usual yelling his name and shoving stuff to autograph at him, they were so polite about it, but there were pretty many people, and I couldn't get to anything to sign, and my camera was not doing well, so I just got in closer, and manged somehow to get a hug and a kiss I noticed during our hug that his jacket is ridiculously soft. It's no wonder he doesn't take it off...I wouldn't either. SUPER soft. His arm felt nice under it too. Anyways, he was so gracious and wonderful to everybody. During the concert he thanked us all for sending him home on a high- note ( I'm paraphrasing ), but basically he appreciated the love and energy coming his way before his trip home. Makes sense. Ending a tour leg with a lame audience would not be fun, so I'm glad we could do that for him. He deserves it
God I love him <333333

I got one incredible video from the Spokane concert:



And one nice audio/mp3 of Shut Us Down... At the end, around 06:32, an audience guy yells out "who needs a band?!", and Lindsey's reaction is so sweet, I had to share it:
http://www.mediafire.com/?3ru9fehw0af7y96

I'll post some photos in a bit, from all the shows and some videos too. Lots of good videos came out after the Seattle show, especially