favorite solo tour?

[elle]

5 LB solo tours, from 1992/93 through 2012, ranging in band size from 10 people through 4 people to just LB (Small Machine is getting smaller ) -

OOTC
UTS
GOS
SWS
OMS

please jump in and discuss which ones you saw, why you liked some tours better than others, and what is your pick for the favorite one.

i just saw 2 last tours - SWS and OMS.

during SWS i did not particularly like the acoustic part, except SUD opener, and i couldn't wait for him to get to the rocking part starting with IOOT. i loved loved loved the rocking part of the show, all through the encores.

with OMS i loved every. single. song. it was intense. it was raw. it was rocking.

if i single out some songs that were played on both tours, i would say every single acoustic song (other than BL which was the same) was much better during OMS. even though NGBA was the only song i could do without, it was 1000 times better during OMS then SWS tour. ISA was spectacular completely alone with that funky backing track, and it just went through your core.

the only song that was much much better during SWS tour was GYOW - this song, if not done acoustically, has to be done with a band to be great (my favorite recent version is probably still LB + LBT version - just spectacular!), but i understand why he felt he had to put it in the OMS setlist, and it was much better than i thought it would be. it was a complete hit or miss, depending on the amount of LB's stage movement and audience participation. but when audience was participating it was a fantastic love fest between Lindsey and the audience that it has become during the last decades (i guess?).

i hope he reworks and adds more rocking songs on his next OMS tour, and can't wait to hear what he'll come up with. however much i loved OMS, i still think setlist was too short.

i know many expected him to do a regular acoustic tour when people heard he will be touring completely solo, and many were disappointed when they heard he threw in 3 electric / rocking songs, instead of just doing an acoustic tour like everybody else does (i guess people like rules?! ). considering my preference for rocking songs to begin with, i was worried that i would be bored and the show would be too much of a hushed affair when he does everything acoustically, but i was going to see some shows anyway and form my opinion after that. as the first show was going on and people started tweeted snippets of the songs, i was completely shocked and ecstatic to see him holding a M1 and hear that he was actually playing Come!!