Just got back from the PHILLY SHOW!!!!

[darklinensuit]

This is my fourth (and last) time typing this tonight, as I'm having trouble posting & I have to be up early to fly back to Houston.

This will be short for now, but more details will be added as soon as I can.

Highlights of coming attractions:

- All about how I met Chris Nicks after the show (he was sloshed - and had some strong opinions to share - there's a story there...)

- All about Rhiannon, Gypsy, Beautiful Child, Goodbye Baby, Stand Back - All were AMAZING --- SB had no high kick, but had the best twirls Stevie has done in the 14 years/8 tours I've attended.

- All about how Lindsey's wife must have read him the riot act after Saturday, 'cause all night, the furthest he and Stevie went was two kisses on the forehead. He made no mention of Stevie in the intro to Say Goodbye.

- All about how I met Marissa --- actually, it was brief just before the show, and she was very nice. (BTW, Congratulations again on the good news.)

- All about how the tickets I bought in the first MINUTE of the fan club presale were located in the LAST ROW of the floor. Thank you, Mr. Todd. Somewhere in the First Union Center is a urinal with your name on it, and I thought of you as I aimed.

- All about how our whole section (I was with Mom, brother, and brother's girlfriend) all sat at the start of Come. I resisted but then conformed. Well, about 2/3 of the way through the song, my mother, whose idea of a wild time is to hit Broadway or a spa with her Mah Jong game, jumps up and starts screaming, clapping, and jumping up and down on her bad leg for Lindsey's song. She was SO loud. (Christy, doublecheck your age, because it's quite likely that we were switched at birth.) Anyway, on the ride home, my mother announces "I just LOVE Come." (Now there's a statement from Mom that could send me into therapy for a loooong time.)

- Other stuff: losers sitting near us, almost being late due to a bridge delay (30 minutes with no light changes in any direction), buying a t-shirt (still no tour books), and probably a whole lot more that I won't think of until I'm in bed.

- Oh yeah, believe it or not, I LIKE NewBlackDress.

This was the MOST fun set I've ever seen/heard. I'll write more about the songs tomorrow.
Lindsey was so into everything, and Stevie started out fantastic and got better with each song. (She also seemed to get thinner as the show went on.)

The whole band was on. I will definitely try to fly somewhere this summer to catch them again if they still don't add Houston to the next leg.

- Jake