NYC June 5th - Rock Away Blind!!

[juniper]

Hey Ledgies- New member here - I was at the June 5 show at BB King's. Rock Away Blind!! Fabulous! I was the person sitting right at stage center, with the set list inches from me. I had written a couple of requests on napkins (Bel Air Rain, which I knew there was pretty much zero chance he would play) and Rock Away Blind (which I thought had a decent chance). A couple of other napkins were there too - another RAB and Bwana I think (!!!!), and a Rodeo. At end of show, I was tossing those napkins up there - Lindsey looked down and smiled, and said 'what is this, like request night?' He looked over the requests and said there was some good stuff there. I said, c'mon, Rock Away Blind!' He said something like like, 'man, it's not really ready' or something like that, but then all of a sudden he launched into it. After the song, he was like 'ok, how was that?' How was that???? THAT was amazing! I'll take it even without the outro. In fact, it sounded so 'pure' after the weird pre-recorded backing tracks of the rest of the evening. I mean, I loved the show as always, but I agree that, if he does need some backup, it's gotta be people! At one point, you could hear his prerecorded voice counting down the start of a song, and that was just....a little odd-sounding, like a kid with an imaginary friend or something My last comment is that I was surprised there was so little talking to the audience between songs. I mean, that can be a blessing too, but in this case, it was just like bam bam one after the other, and to me, it made the show feel kind of rushed, esp since they were mostly songs ppl are very familiar with. He was like Joey Ramone up there one after the other!! Great site you guys - sorry for such long first post!!