Toronto 2: AMAZING!!!

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Back after a looooong absence here...

Toronto last night? BLEW ME AWAY. I've been to 2 Fleetwood Mac shows on the SYW tour, 14 Lindsey shows, 2 Eagles shows, 2 Don/Stevie shows, and 6 Glenn Frey solo shows in the last 4 years...and last night, I have to say, was one of the best concert *experiences* of my life. I mean, I'm spoiled, I'm a Lindsey chick through and through and I really got used to cheap tickets and sitting up close and having Nothin' But Liddy for a couple hours...so I wasn't even going to go to the Mac shows, because I didn't want to sit in the boonies, amongst a bunch of people who didn't know half the songs, who wouldn't get up and dance etcetera.

I've also had really poor concert experiences in Toronto...the crowd usually is VERY reluctant to, well, *do* anything.

But last night I went down to the arena (more to see if I could catch anyone wandering around, lol, than anything else) and wound up getting a ticket anyway. I got caught up in the Mac excitement, I guess, hehe, and I blew some money I really shouldn't have...but oh my God it was so worth it.

I was about 5 rows from the very top of the arena. But my seat was just kitty-corner to the stage, so I had a GREAT view anyway, which really surprised me. Anybody that knows me, knows I'm a total ticket snob, lol...if I can't get seats on the floor I generally just won't go to a show, because a huge part of it to me is getting to see the little nuances, Lindsey's weird faces and mannerisms and stuff, you know? And like I said, generally those in the boonies tend to be fairly dull, and I'm loud and I dance.

I'm sure there were pockets of dull throughout the arena, but from where I was? I couldn't see 'em. Throughout the entire show, from the floor to the rafters, I could see people up and dancing and cheering and having an amazing time. Including two security guards dancing their butts off to Go Insane wayyyy on the opposite side from me!!! That was AWESOME!!! And my section...holy crap, to anyone in Section 309, I salute you. My row only got disrupted twice, unfortunately during Storms and Oh Well, but still...it was just a couple that left to go to the bathroom I guess and came right back. No beer flying, no obnoxious drunks, and REAL FANS. I was absolutely amazed. People were singing along to *everything*...including Storms, and Go Insane. (Although yes, I could see the bathroom exodus happening elsewhere, but around me, I had people playing air guitar and singing and dancing to that. YES LINDSEY FANS! )

I hadn't even looked at a setlist, because I didn't want to know what I thought I'd be missing, lol... So when they started with Monday Morning my jaw dropped. That's one of the two songs I've always wanted to see live and figured I never, ever, ever would.

Can I just say, Lindsey is a god.

And Stevie actually seemed quite animated...she talked about it being their last show for two weeks and stuff and I really liked how she explained Gypsy and Storms... I've heard she's been more reserved and stuff and kind of...mellow...but I think she was really 'on' tonight. Maybe she's just tired...this tour has apparently been pretty grueling, a lot of very close together shows, a lot of travel, and *not* a lot of sleep.

Andy did a great job with the song-by-song review, so I won't touch that... But I have to say, Oh Well...absolutely *rocked*. I spent most of that with my jaw dropped as well, LOL...Lindsey is amazing. The whole *band* is amazing.

And Storms was just *beautiful*...I've always loved that song, and getting to see it live was absolutely incredible. I *had* heard that one would be making it into the setlist this time, so I was prepared, but it still was unbelievable.

Lindsey got a standing ovation in my section for I'm So Afraid...it was the *only* standing O of the night for a song in my area. Go Linds!!!

Lindsey and Stevie *both* got standing O's for themselves, though...amazing. All the way up to the rafters, everybody was on their feet for both of them. I was soooooo happy to see that, because really...at the Eagles show at the Air Canada Center, nobody wanted to stand at the end of Hotel California, much less for just, you know, *the people they came to see*. I fully expected the same...and I was so shocked, in a good way!

And again, my section loved Lindsey as much as Stevie..nobody sat for Lindsey and only got up for Stevie, which happened at the other shows I saw. (I'm sorry...I warned you I'm a Lindsey chick, I watch for these things!)

My section also got up and danced through Don't Stop. The two girls beside me had been dancing in their seats the whole night, and a ton of people around us were up already except the people immediately behind us...so I leaned over and was like "I'll stand if you'll stand!" So they got up and so did I...and I actually got to get up and dance. In the top level of seating. The other 2 Mac shows I've seen, I've been on the *floor* and nobody's gotten up. Again, yay for Section 309!

But...the thing that absolutely floored me, that I was *not* expecting since again I hadn't looked at a setlist at all...when they came back out for the second encore... Okay, I recorded the entire show for the record, LOL, and it came out *extremely* well so I'm going to put that up eventually... But yah, I started up my recorder, sat back down...and they launched into Silver Springs. I was speechless. I started crying.

(I also cried when Lindsey came onstage at the first Lindsey solo show I ever saw, simply because I'd wanted to see such a show for so long and never thought it'd happen. This was on the level with *that*.)

I cried all the way through Silver Springs...that has been my favorite song (along with "Turn It On", now, and I cried during that too hehe, but SS has held the title longer!) for so many years, holds SO much meaning to me...and I went to my first Mac show immediately after they dropped Silver Springs and figured that was it, it was gone. And since it never got played throughout the show, I figured it was staying gone. And there it was.

So yup...this jaded, Toronto-audience-disliking, floor-seats-or-nothing, spoiled-by-amazing-Lindsey-shows girl...spent the last song bawling her eyes out, and the entire show, way up in the boonies, thinking over and over that it was *so* worth spending my grocery money on.

And I was thinking we must've had lots of Ledgies in the crowd for it to be that awesome, but it seems there actually weren't many at all! Crazy... I've never been proud of this city at shows, I actually apologized to Brett Tuggle for the audience at the Hamilton Ontario Lindsey show, LOL... But I was as amazed by the audience as I was by the band.

So yah...I've changed my mind: To the hold-outs who like me weren't going to go to a greatest hits show? Go anyway. Really.

(Wow this is long...sorry!)