Grand Ronde, OR 7/12/07

Grand Ronde, OR 7/12/07

Spirit Mountain Casino

photo by Tina Wyche

This was an outdoor show that started at 7:00 pm, so plenty of daylight for the show. There was a major gap between the front row and the stage, and security said that the crowd would be allowed to come up closer to the stage, so there was a lot of pushing and jockeying for position during the show. It was a "normal" set list, and the show was over around 8:30, with it still being daylight outside which was kind of weird.

When Rick addressed the audience, 5 songs into the show, he even said "Good Afternoon". After Rock of Life, Rick mentioned that only one person had left, and he was in a walker, so he was excused. During DTTS, after the line "How's life in the big city" Rick said "I don't think we're in the big city now". Also during DTTS, after had the first person sing, he said to Matty, really slowly "turn on the mic" then he had the girl sing again and said to Matty, really slowly "turn it off". Rick tried to get a security guard to sing, his name was Robin. He tried twice but Robin wasn't having any of that, so he went to the other security guard, Steve, and he told Steve "Don't be a turkey like Robin", and Steve had some of the girls around him sing with him, so it sounded pretty good. He goes way out into the audience for some more of DTTS and he asked something about whether that was a private bar. I'm not sure what else happened out there because I couldn't see.

After the Medley, he asked if there was any making out going out in the back section, he said they were going to have a little bit of a "brokeback mountain" moment while George hooked him up with his cordless stuff, then he said it was a good thing they were both married. He talked about the movie he did in the 80's "Hard to Watch" and how it had some pretty good songs, but was mostly his naked butt. He actually played Love Somebody and My Generation on the stairs coming down from the stage, and didn't go out into the audience until Human Touch. He did a two song encore, which is always nice. He introduced the band twice, once at the end of JG and once at the end of the encore. He really didn't do a lot of talking (I just milked this for every single thing he said, practically).

It was a high energy show, and he seemed to be enjoying himself.

The full set list was:
Who Killed Rock and Roll

Will I

Affair of the Heart
Alyson
I've Done Everything For You
Rock of Life
Red House
Don't Talk to Strangers
Medley
Love Somebody
My Generation
Human Touch
Jessie's Girl
Wasted
Love is Alright Tonite

For pictures from this show check out the picture spotlight section.