Pittsburgh show

[jmn3]

Fantastic show tonight! Despite liking this band essentially all 34 years of my life, I never saw them until 2009...they were great in 2009 and 2013, but with Christine, they are another level altogether. She adds great songs, vocals, humor, and overall, balance, to the show.

The setlist flows fairly well (it's so much better to judge these things when you're at the show, vs. posts online and Youtube videos). The first dog, IMO, is I Know I'm Not Wrong. A lot of momentum seems lost on a mostly clueless crowd who doesn't know the song at all.

Sisters seems much better this year. Stevie's vocals altogether seem stronger (on most songs) than last year. Really enjoyed hearing Seven Wonders, although Stevie still is getting the lyrics mixed up (missed again, "if I hope, and if I pray..."). I think this song in particular, would be the place for her to do her "Storytime with Aunt Stevie" shtick that she has going with Gypsy. We heard a Gypsy story in 2009...with the mattress on the floor, etc. Seven Wonders is one of those forgotten songs in her catalog and there were a lot of audience members who seemed to not know it, or were trying to remember it. And I heard a lot of "huh what?" about American Horror Story when she thanked it at the end...I think a little introduction about how AHS brought the song back to her and she resurrected it for the first time since 1988 would be better than hearing about Gypsy again.

The acoustic set, despite it's redundancy for the super fans, is a huge hit with the audience. Even NGBA, which seemingly plods along at a snail's pace these days, drew an incredible amount of applause.

Over My Head is the second dog for me...it just seems to be wrongly placed in the set. And it's followed up with the Gypsy story, which is then followed up by another mehhh rendition of this great song. I'm sorry, this one should be dropped. As phenomenal as Stevie sounds on other songs, she just seems to struggle with Gypsy in particular. I'd take Sara for it any day of the week.

Little Lies...I just friggin love this song. When I was 6 or 7 I used to hear it on the way to soccer and I loved it then, and I love it now. It really sounded great and the little jam at the end was awesome. I am so thrilled they resurrected this - Christine's voice sounded great throughout the show!

GDW/ISA/GYOW/WT- awesome as always

And then Mick introduces everyone and forgets to introduce John! Chris was counting out Don't Stop and got to 3 and Mick starts waving his sticks at her. John of course shrugs it off, but Mick was embarrassed and couldn't believe he forgot. The crowd loved it...Mick brought it up again during his finale speech, said it was "the worst thing I've ever done!" Oh Mick, I'm sure you've done worse

Getting to see Christine close a show with Songbird was amazing. It is so incredible that she is back and that those of us who were either too young, or too stupid, to see the full five of them, have this opportunity in 2014.

I hope everyone else who is planning to see them at future dates on this tour enjoys the show as much as we did tonight!