Concert Reviews
New Jersey shows
February 23, 2007
Commerce Bank Arts Centre. Sewell, NJ
AND
February 24, 2007
Count Basie Theatre. Red Bank, NJ
Review by Annie
What wonderful shows David put on in New Jersey last weekend!
David was very sweet and sentimental to the audience but very wild when he performed and isn't that just the way we like it? I thought the audience was simply terrible on Saturday in Red Bank, but he was nice when I knew I would not have been able to be. He asked and begged repeatedly for them to be quiet and sometimes he seemed to get very impatient but I thought he did a really good job of holding it all in. I felt bad that so many women wouldn't listen to his pleas. He even signed stupid autographs but a lot of people still acted terrible by talking while he was singing and while he was talking even.
Fridays audience was very nice though. He joked and teased with a lot of people. Kissed a lot of lucky ladies in the front, sang to lots of them. He flirted with one lady who stood next to me at the stage and he even kissed her on the lips! He only kissed me on the cheek but he did put his hand on my bare shoulder and squeezed it really hard. It was so much fun! He joked with one woman about the summer of 72 because she thought it was the summer of 70 for Summer Days. He said she must have been alone LOL. Another woman gave him her phone for Echo Valley and he joked and asked for her number! She should have told him to keep the phone. Then he joked with whoever was on the phone too. He was in a really wonderful mood on Friday. Saturday too but a lot of the audience was very rude as I have said.
He did a wonderful version of I think I love You on the acoustic guitar. I've seen it quite a few times before but it was the best I had seen in spite of the audience talking. On Friday at the Commerce Center his shirt unbuttoned all the way up except for one button and he was so adorable when he accused a little eleven year old girl he had just been talking to of undoing it. It had slowly been undoing itself as he ran around the stage and when he bent to talk to the little girl the rest of the buttons just gave way LOL. He held it wrapped around himself and pretended to be shy and embarrassed and he looked adorable and I think we all wanted to gobble him up. After the break he came back wearing one of his older satin shirts. It was the light blue one with the green threads that show up in the lights. I have nice memories of other shows with that shirt so I was glad to see it. It did seem like he was very hot in it though. But I do love all the different white ones he wears anyway and I bet they're a lot cooler because they are cotton. I especially love the white one with the pintucks down the front, don't you. Well maybe the embroidered one I like better. Oh I like whatever he wears LOL.
He sang Crossroads by Eric Clapton at both shows and it was great. He surely can take anyones song and make it a better one can't he? And he sang a bit of Goodbye. The whole audience did and it was quite cool. A challenged man was trying to sing Friend and Lover and the Na na na sounded like Goodbye so everyone sang it. And he sang Rock Me Baby again which was a wonderful surprise.
At the end of the show he told the fans that it was a technical age and things were changing and he was taking a turn in his music career or something along those lines. And that he respectfully asked us to support him and come along and give it a try and he hoped we would like it because he did. And that if we didn't well LOL then he made one of his silly faces and said TRY or something like that.
That's all that I can remember right now. What else does anyone else remember? Those were the high points for me I guess. I had second row seats on the first night and front row the second night so like I said, I did manage to get to the stage and get a kiss or two so I was delerious with lust LOL. And he smells really nice doesn't he?
Hope you like my review of the New Jersey Shows.
Annie
