[Rick and Roll]

for me. Saturday's show was at the Keswick in Philadelphia (vax there the day before). Vax enjoyed it (see another post) except for people getting up and leaving and coming back.

That was the negative for me. These geeky no-life goobers yelling all the time are amusing at first, but can be a royal pain. The guy that yelled "32 doors" while the singer was telling about the song..I said back "thanks, man. I never knew how many doors there were, thanks for enlightening me" and then some guy yealls "rael is real" and I said "You're a d@@@". A bit out of line but so what. Also everyone yelling "knife"...uh wasn't on that tour! And the whistlers...aaaahhh!

I did enjoy the "We Can't Dance" request. I was commenting to a friend eariler that if I didn't hear anything off of ATTWT, I'd be pissed. And the obligatory "Free Bird" yell.

The band and production were outstanding - you never realize how really good the songs are when you're listening to the record. As was the case with the SEBTP show, I also never realized how much Mike Rutherford did.

The only musical drawback was the fade outs on a lot of the tunes. I understand that Genesis had some variation in their shows, and it is impossible to recreate. So the next best thing is to play it like the record. As long as you treat it like a production, it goes over great. These guys can play! The "Hackett" guy was a bit lax, but Banks and Rutherford didn't really give him much to do until W&W imho.

Tonight I see them at a added show in Baltimore. This will be at a club with limited seating (read: barstools). I'm interested to see how the stage show will look not being in a Theater. Hopefully the closeness will outweigh the production value of seeing it in a theater.

And I wish my wife could go. She's not really into any of this music but I think she'd like this one.