Forum guest
Jun-05-2011, 04:46 GMT
USA - United Staates America
 | Paul asked me what the R on my Rutgers hat was for!!! The concert was amazing. Being in the front row, at times I was hearing the sound more from the monitors and the sound was pristine.
He played from around 8:15 to 10:05 give or take a minute or two on each end. In terms of the setlist, he opened with Crazy Love and ended with Still Crazy After All These Years.
Some of the changes that come to mind:
Afterlife was played- the following songs that are frequently done were skipped:
Vietnam/Mother in Child Reunion, also Father and Daughter and Boy in The Bubble were skipped as well
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linclink
Jun-05-2011, 14:51 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| But, like in Boston, he did do "The Afterlife" back to back with "Questions For The Angels"!
And I have a brief Paul Simon moment myself as well- Phil you will Love this one...
I thought he´d kind of looked out either at me, or in my direction a couple of times during the show, but early on in particular, like he saw, or noticed something.
I was in the third row, & wearing an Old cotton New York Yankees home jersey.
When he came back for the last encore he point out towards me & then to his chest, in the spot where the Yankees "NY" insignia is, and I looked down & pointed to it & smiled, and gave a thumbs up & he smiled, nodded & returned the thumbs up! I actually love the Red Sox, Mets & Yankees all...and like Paul, I root for good baseball first...but that moment made me think about fully converting back to the Yanks!
I´ve got an old baseball mitt with me, & while I´m not really an autograph kind of guy, it was given to me on a birthday by an old ex-girlfriend, and she had a few friends sign it for me...I was thinking of maybe trying tonight (Sunday show) or tomorrow in NYC to get him to sign my mitt.
I was third row aisle last night, and I´m literally a couple feet from where I was last night tonight, as aisle second row, so I´m gonna where the Yankees jersey again tonight, and maybe my cap too! And I think I´ll bring my mitt to the show...just in case I need to catch any pop up foul balls, or I get a chance to get Paul to sign it. You can get I´ll be flying the Yankee colors when I´m back in NYC (where I lived from ´94-´00) on Monday night as well, and we´ll be going for front row, or as close to it as I can get. |
Forum guest
Jun-05-2011, 15:06 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| The people next to me asked to have their ticket signed and he said "I can´t do that". I was surprised that no one really got up the whole night.I was also surprised that no one rushed the stage at all. In the second row tonight in the middle. I kind of regret that when they released the tickets I purchased one second row only to find a minute later i would have been able to purchase a pair in the front row with an asile seat. |
Forum guest
Jun-05-2011, 15:11 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| -also (i am too lazy this morning to sign in lol)
I thought Obvious Child was superb- I had not heard it live since 1991 at the Spectrum ( I don´t think he played it in 1993 at the S&G show at the Paramount during the 21 night stand)
I thought the sound was incredible; it almost felt like being at one of the concerts you watch on Paladia. I had seen blue man group and a bronx tale there.
I was pleased that it was over right after 10 as I have a long work day tomorrow and would have had to skip it if it was a longer night.
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Søren
Jun-06-2011, 00:17 GMT
Denmark
 | Man, I will be seriously sad if LIESL is not played in Dublin. Crossing figures... |
