My Nashville Experience

[michelle2677]

Weeeeellll..Let me start out by saying I had a HELLUVA good time!! It was one of the best concerts I've been to and Lindsey ROCKED Nashville.

Now-The evening started out with us getting lost. We took the wrong exit so I was terrified we were going to be late. We pulled into the parking garage, threw the 5 dollar bill at the guy and screeched into a parking spot. In the meantime-I'm trying to find the most inconspicuous place to put my digital camera so it's not to be seen. I went with mylittledemon's advice and stuffed it down my shirt! I had a jacket on, or else I NEVER would have been able to get away with it! We ran inside and the place was gorgeous. I could feel the energy, and I told my friend-I seriously think I'm in the presence of a genius. And I was.

We found our seats, and then I went to get booze. If you didn't know, the Ryman used to be an old church so the seats were pews. We were sitting next to a couple from Nashville who said they had watched Lindsey's Soundstage and said if they ever got the chance to see him live, they would go. They were almost as excited as I was! I prepared my camera for massive picture taking (turning off the flash) and I was ret to go.

I guess about 20 minutes later Lindsey walked out and he was pure yummy perfection. Wearing the blue jeans, black shirt and black leather jacket. I think most people have listed the setlist so I won't repeat all of that. I do have to say that my absolute favorite song from the new album now is It Was You. My friend and I played that all the way back today. As someone else said (sarah, dena?) every time he said his children's names, the crowd went WILD!! I almost cried it was so touching. I know he felt the same because I would think only "die hard fans" would know about that, so it was really a neat thing
When trouble came on I almost didn't recognize it since it was a very low key version of the song.
Never going back again came on and I decided this would be a good start to begin recording on my phone. I had it all planned out. My phone would hold about 10 minutes of recording and I could send it to my email, erase and record away again. Yeah-that was the plan. Sorry ledgies. As I was recording the pure beauty that is Lindsey Buckingham, (blatantly I should add ) Security nazi came with her snarled up snout, razor sharp teeth flaring and waived her finger at me while shaking her head. She waived her FINGER at me!! I was in trouble!!! I thought about getting snippy with her, but we were only 3 songs in. I couldn't afford to get kicked out!! So I closed it up and ACCIDENTALLY erased what I had. (Sorry Ledgies ) By this time, I was thinking there needed to be a fast song coming up (3 slow ones previous). Ask and you shall receive. Second hand news. I jumped out of my seat like someone had just set my seat on fire. NO ONE stood up (I was in the balcony) I kept thinking.."what in the hell is WRONG with these people??!!!" Big love was awesome as always. I'm always a sucker for a hot man thrusting back and forth with his guitar going "OH, AH!!" Did anyone else notice-it seemed like maybe the second or third before the last "oh, ah" he messed up, or there was a stall. Just wondering. Go Insane, as mentioned-he got the verses backwards. I'm ASSUMING he did that on purpose, but who knows. I like the studio version better.

Tusk-They started with the background noises, but when he actually started singing I hardly recognized the song. It didn't have that drum riff (does percussion have riffs?? ha ha) that I love so much. Taku started it later, but not in the intro. Still brilliant though. Another thing to add, by this time I was up in my seat and did not give a damn who I was bothering. If you're at a concert and it's rocking, you should stand up!! (my balcony people sucked!!!)

I LOVED LOVED LOVED Holiday Road and the barks at the end. I got a picture of him when he fell on the ground and laid there. My little lady next to me asked if was going to give him mouth to mouth to resuscitation him. I told her I was CPR certified and if need be, I would do my good samaritan duty!!!

A couple of afterthoughts-I did NOT know Nicole and Keith were there!! I miss everything!!! ha ha

So cute-there was a girl that was on the floor and ran up to the stage to touch Lindsey. I'm pretty sure she did, because when it was over, she ran back to her seat (maybe about 10 rows back) and jumped in the guy she was sitting next to's arms. She was so excited that she had been able to touch him!! (lucky b*tch... )

well..I have some pretty decent pictures to post, but I canNOT get photobucket to work, so as soon as I do, I will post them (I KNOW you all want to see the pic of him on the ground. I just wish I had gotten it sooner when his legs were up in the air!!)

so to all the people going to a Liddy concert this tour-You are in for a treat!!
Peace