With eighteen days left until Rick Springfield returns to Milwaukee, it is now time to look back at the 3rd show he did at the Potawatomi Casino. Starting off the show with Ordinary Girl and then Love Somebody (two songs he hadn't performed the night before), it was almost like he was picking up where he left off. Also starting off in his leather jacket and glasses, also added some freshness and excitement to everything.
The full set list for the show on March 7, 2002 was as follows:
Ordinary Girl
Love Somebody
itsalwaysomething
Love is Alright Tonite
Gloria
Souls
Don't Talk to Strangers
I Get Excited
idontwantanythingfromyou
Inside Silvia
You Really Got Me
Kristina
Rock of Life
Human Touch
Jessie's Girl
Affair of the Heart
I've Done Everything For You
Living in Oz
Here is a review I wrote of the show back then:
The entertainment director opened up the show again. He asked who had been there last night and if there was a 3rd night, who would come again (that would be cool!). Of course he heard a loud response to both questions.
Rick did what Rick does best and that's mix up the set list when he plays either two shows in one night or two nights in a row. He started out the show with Ordinary Girl and then Love Somebody, neither song he had played the night before. Early in the show he plays Love is Alright Tonite, which is often an encore song. That is very exciting because you're getting it so early in the show and you can be really excited about the song without knowing the show is about to end.
Bathtub Gloria continues.....the funniest line being "I had something in my hand....it was the soap.....so I put it down" Then he sings something about "she takes me to the bed, lays me down, makes me feel alright". Whew, do you need a break after that visual…
Rick sat on the steps during Souls, very nice!
The "Boy 9" guitar bit the dust. We didn't officially find this out until he had George bring it out so he could use it to smash the "mini me" Pinata. Poor thing had a broken neck.(the guitar, NOT the pinata!) When Rick saw the guitar he said "what idiot broke this one" (we think he knew he had done it). He cut himself on the broken guitar when he was swinging it. A little patchwork with a Band-Aid and he was good as new.
IGE had a twist. Rick had gone into the audience, so when it came time to do IGE, he had a girl from the audience come up on the railing and hold his mic and he did IGE from there. There were only a total of 4 girls. It was great!
When Rick went to do the new song, someone had stolen his words from the night before. He asked if anyone had them, that he needed them (he was kind of joking), and apparently he did need them. He changed the 2nd line back to "you try to heal but you crucify" and he messed up the second verse (he kind of mumbled through it). Rick stayed out in the audience for a large portion of the show, but it was really cool (unless maybe you had front row seats). You could see him the whole time, so it made it great for everyone. He went up into the balcony during Human Touch, and the first part of Jessie's Girl. When he was up in the balcony he was standing on the ledge and the only thing there was a railing that was about mid-shin on him. There were NO fans OR security holding on to him or anywhere near him. We were all holding our breath through this nearly having heart attacks with the mere thought of him falling. You could hear him laughing as he headed back to the stage.
Then, first song for the encore was Affair of the Heart, followed by I've Done Everything For You. That was really cool!! It had that whole beginning of the show feeling. Then came Living in Oz, and it was over. It was a great show!
More pictures from this show can be found in the
concert section.
May 21, 2003. The 2nd show of 3. The first 3 songs performed had not been performed the night before, so it was definitely off to a running start. Then Affair of the Heart, a necessary staple to the set list, and then 3 more songs that were not performed the night before. Then idontwantanythingfromyou - still unreleased and a crowd favorite. And just like the night before, he does a double shot from the upcoming cd by performing Alien Virus. Before the night is done, we hear a couple of more songs that we hadn't heard the night before, a few more of the staples are performed, some in totally different places in the set list than "usual", and you really get a feeling of having seen two completely different shows. All in all, 10 songs were performed the 2nd night, that were not on the first night's set list. It was really great.
