Saratoga Show Thread

[michelej1]

Niki,

With no offense to UTS (I miss Show You How being in the setlist), it is MUCH easier to dance, bounce, wail, faint and indulge any other kinds of emotional excess in response to these new songs than it was to, um, Castaway Dreams.

You know, he starts the show off talking about a wet girl hiding in his room. He hates to hover, but he has to love her. That's a pretty nice beginning.
He ends by saying that it was not such a great day after all, but it got me thinking it was going to be a great night.

I'm not really into Shut Us Down. I'd like to see that gone. Save it for FM and sing it to Stevie, in place of Say Goodbye.

Zzagar, I think that by doing Go Insane with a band, it is distinguished from Big Love. It made me hope that he would do Big Love with a band, especially when he started the intro to Big Love saying it had been through many incarnations. I thought he meant he was going to revert back to one of his old incarnations.

Troubling note: When Lindsey introduced Big Love and said he wrote it during his last year with FM (during his first stint with the band), he did not say he left as a survival move. I found the omission very alarming and wanted to run up on the stage and take his temperature.

Betsy, and you know I really didn't YELL either. So, I was somewhat surprised that Lindsey heard me. I was annoyed by the album not being out, but it has nothing to do with him really. Poor devil. He made me laugh when he said that he didn't see anyone around shooting videos of his Did You Miss Me song. I guess if he hadn't done the home made videos for UTS, he wouldn't have any at all. If that guy wants videos, I'm mad at WB for not giving them to him.

Yes, I WAS surprised about the picture of him ascending the stairs on the t-shirt, but it was the first thing that caught my eye. I think there were about 4 different shirts. I have to say -- you can't tell much from the waist down -- but it wasn't like he was going up the stairs with alacrity. His jacket is drooping, his hand is hanging by his side. I think an active person takes the stairs with their arms raised a bit -- in a racer's stance. I wish his body looked a little more energetic tackling those stairs , but I think it's still a cool picture. I'd like to wear that on the FRONT of my shirt really.

There were autographed Bass Hall cds. I didn't see any key chains.

Michele