NY: After all the Attar's Gone

[michelej1]

Just got back from the Nokia Theater.

Lindsey put on a great finale.

I’m not sure if there was a sound problem during Great Day or not. Lindsey did seem to be looking at his guitar and I noticed that once Love Runs Deeper started, the sound was 10 times louder and the base throb 100 times thumpier.

I don’t think I’ve seen the show since Anaheim and it hasn’t changed much. At the close of Go Insane, I noticed Lindsey turned away from the audience and was taking his giant, tip toe steps towards the back of the stage, to give the song a more dramatic ending.

At the beginning of Tusk, the lights came on when Lindsey murmured the “why don’t you tell me” lyrics and then went off again during the silence, creating an ominous vibe to go along with the drum beats.

He said the album has been out about a month, taking me back to the very first concert when the album wasn’t out at all. It seems wrong to end the tour just a month after the album debuts.

His voice continues to be beautiful. In the past, so often at the end of Big Love he would just be screaming instead of singing. But not these days. His tenor is so sweet. I wonder where he got it from, because it seemed to be completely lost by the time the SYW tour ended. I hear about the way they steal organs from homeless men on the street. Lindsey may have stolen a true tenor from one.

For “Shut Us Down” he seems to take special care to enunciate every word. The ending guitar riff is even longer than before. He takes his time getting to the “look ma, one hand!” close. He hugs his guitar to the applause that falls afterwards. He loves SUD so much, I’m rather surprised he hasn’t divorced Kristen and married it.

The introduction to Did You Miss Me is now about 30 minutes long, it seems. He talks about the big machinery of Fleetwood Mac and the small machinery of an artist who specializes in “esoterica”. He says that Warner Bros. favors the big machinery and he doesn’t blame them. If he was a record executive, if he had to choose between his work and Fleetwood Mac's, essentially between big sales and “no sales” he thinks he would choose BIG sales too.


He says being part of Fleetwood Mac made his small career possible and he’s at a point now where he doesn’t care about the outcome. He knows his work has only a few listeners and those listeners are us in the audience. Having become accustomed to Warner Bros. not being enthusiastic about his career, he says we can imagine his surprise when he gave them GOS and he got a call a week later and the record company said, “we love it, babe.” I think Lindsey assumed a British accent for the “babe” part. He says he was surprised and happy when they told him they wanted Did You Miss Me for the single, because he didn’t even expect to have a single. Yet, they chose this song to start sending out to radio formats.


Watching Lindsey sing World Turning, I start to think that the next time I see him, he may be with Fleetwood Mac. What it would mean to me to see him singing those lines while sharing the mic with the other guy who wrote it, as he did in days of yore. Just one more time.

He sits down for the drum solo in World Turning, but then leaves the stage a few minutes into it and doesn’t return until it’s over. Wally has increased his antics. Doing drum pantomines, slapstick. He’s got a whole routine ago. If you’ve ever wanted to see the return of the mime, then Wally is your guy.

When Lindsey did the band introductions, he went and hugged each guy, even climbing onto the drum kit to hug Wally. He says that when Wally came aboard, finally their family of 4 was complete.

Brett said that it feels bittersweet to mention how great Lindsey is at this point of the tour. He tells Lindsey, “it’s been a great ride.”

Lindsey says, “there’s much more to come.” Brett says, “that’s right brother!”

When Lindsey later tells the audience this is the last concert in support of GOS, a moan of disappointment rises from the crowd. Lindsey then says, “this MAY be the last show in support of the album.”

After Treason, when the band takes its bow, Lindsey pulls all the men into a circle and they hoot together. A final hurrah. Then Brett, Neale and Wally leave the stage. Since some of you have gotten BTLH, I was hoping for that, but he ends with Time Precious Time. The last setlist in the tour is the same as the first. It reinforces my belief in the power of cycles.

As Lindsey sings the final words to TPT his eyes search the audience as he chants “Remember, remember, remember, remember, remember . . .” with a pronounced choke in his voice. Of course, the melodrama makes me want to “forget, forget, forget!” However, he’s perfect even when he’s annoying. He’s perfect because he’s annoying. Maybe he’s just perfect.

To the left, to the right, up and down, and around. That’s right baby. That’s right.