Rick SpringfieldTacoma, WA 11/03/07
Emerald Queen Casino
(photo by Susan Fortune)
This show started with the fairly new video montage. It only plays at the venues that have the video screens, so not everyone who goes to a show gets to see it, but it really is rather cool and serves as a great buildup to Rick's entrance onto the stage. We figured out pretty early that it wasn't going to be the typical set list when the 2nd song into the show Rick did itsalwaysomething from Karma. He did flip the lines "touch down turn around flag on the play" with "down one, home run, your dog steals the ball (doing the baseball one first). The only people that would have noticed something like that would have been "us" and I'm pretty sure "we" didn't care :-). When he was performing this song on a more regular basis back during the Karma tour, he would often have trouble with those lines. Rick was definitely in an interesting kind of mood, he sat down on the stage during a guitar solo, using the monitor for his back rest, and he seemed to kneel down, or lay down, or rest against the banister a lot during this show (and not from being tired, but just as part of the performance). It was a little different, but definitely interesting. At one point, very early on, his (dry) shirt came completely unbuttoned and looked down and started laughing saying "how did that happen?" and he buttoned it back up. By the time the shirt was wet, it was completely open again, and stayed that way for the rest of the night.
Security was really strict on cameras and even cell phones, and at one point Rick kept telling them to stop yelling at people, at least a couple of times. He had one of the security guards (Arthur) sing, and he wouldn't at first, so he went to a female in the audience and she didn't sing at first so he kind of straddle her, then he promised Arthur that he wouldn't be doing that to him. Arthur finally did sing. A lot of men sang during DTTS and Rick declared that them men did a much better job than the women, and this night. At one point he was talking to Arthur again, and I guess he wasn't paying attention, and Rick said something like "he's too busy telling people not to take photos". After The Medley, we got another treat with Inside Silvia. At the very end, Rick started to sing "And I hold you...." and he stopped for a second then said "that's not right is it?" and he needed a little help and people were yelling out the line and he said something like "it's easy once you hear it", and he finished the song, and it was a nice moment.
Before Love Somebody, he said we can talk about the movie "blah, blah, blah", but I only need to say 3 words - "My naked butt!" When Rick went into the audience, he said "I think this is a crowd that can appreciate a song called......" and then he stopped and I think he was waiting for the music for Jesus Saves and the band didn't seem to know what he wanted to play, so he went on to play My Generation. I know several people were screaming Jesus Saves. He does the cell phone bit during My Generation.
The full set list was:
Who Killed Rock N Roll
itsalwaysomething
Affair of the Heart
Alyson
I've Done Everything For You
Rock of Life
Red House
Don't Talk to Strangers
The Medley
Inside Silvia
Love Somebody
Human Touch
Jessie's Girl
Wasted
Love is Alright Tonite
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