The first song is
"Everything Is Cool" - this is such a great song to start a show, the
way the chords and the volume build. The very beginning chords are a tape - when
the music starts the lights are down and no one is on stage. Todd comes onstage
first - the drums are all live. When the drum rolls stop and the music changes,
that's when the spotlights hit and everyone else kicks in at full strength!
During this song and the next, "The Grand Illusion", people
again stood up at the beginning of the song but then sat back down! I was up and
down, standing and clapping and singing as much as I could without driving the
people behind me crazy. The two guys sitting to my left and the couple on my
right got up with me a lot of times, so at least it wasn’t just me!
"Blue Collar Man"
- Tommy always says "Hello friends!" Tonight, after that he said,
"We're baaaaaack!" They played at Mohegan Sun in April too. It was a
different actual venue; before, they were in the Events Center, and this time in
the new Uncas Pavilion, but close enough! And to think I almost didn't go to the
show in April… I was new... I didn't know...
The drums in the middle of
this song... wow! During the "dit de dit dit, dit dit de doo" section
(think about it, you know, I'm sure you do) and leading back into the chorus...
not to repeat myself but big WOW! I'm sure part of it was being so close but
man, Todd beats the living daylights out of those drums! You could reach
out and touch the sound. During this section and many times during the night, I
could feel the drumming in my skin, in the hair on my arms, you name it... Todd
ROCKS.
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