Lindsey in Wilmington DE

[Lee]

Well what a way to spend your wedding anniversary!

My husband & I were in Row 2 @ the end on the right. We did see you, Eugene, & your girlfriend, but I didn’t know @ the time that was you. I think I saw Abbi way down on the other side in the front, but no one was easy to get to as the chairs were packed together! I did have someone that I knew from work (we advertise on the radio station that she works for.) come find me @ the end. I had a “professional” photographer in front of me & I say “professional” because the guy must work for a local paper or magazine because a guy who works there @ the Queen was explaining about taking pictures. The photographer guy had a long, long lens on his camera (which he didn’t need being that close, he is in the front row) & the worker guy said “And no flash!” And the photographer said, “Oh no, I’m a professional”. Hmmmmm…. So I knew I could take pictures if he could.

My husband counted 15 guitars up in the back lined up, he said one for every song & I said more than one for every song & it was just one extra. Lindsey added that one extra due to the “conspiracy in the front row”. He also said that maybe the next time he would take requests. I think there were a lot of requests from the front row.

I took a few pics & two videos, one of GYOW & BTLH with my camera. I don’t have a You Tube account, so I don’t know how to post them otherwise, but they came out pretty good. I think there was too much light on Lindsey or something because his head was just nothing but white from were I was sometimes. And the light would reflect off his guitar & into the audience & at one point in the beginning, he was having fun shining the light in people’s eyes! And during GYOW, a few women in the audience got to touch Lindsey’s guitar!

I liked the show though I can’t say that I really loved it. Linds talked about the small & big machines, can’t have one without the other, blah blah blah. I would have like the Big Machine or even the Medium Machine more, but he did OK for just being there alone. I wasn’t thrilled with the set list; I don’t like some of the songs. I never liked “Come”, but I liked it what he really got into playing the guitar during this song. The audience didn’t warm up until he really got going, probably during Come & they liked Never Going Back. No standing mostly except by the front row, those conspirators!

I am really happy that this year, I got to see two of the best guitar players around & my favorites, Eddie Van Halen & Lindsey Buckingham.

Lee