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Rated "5" by Michelle aka mjackson866

I just returned from Lindsey’s last show at the Luxor.

All during this tour, it’s been fun to see his name as headliner on the marquees, but it’s 10 times as impressive in showy Las Vegas. I’ve been seeing his name and face splayed across gigantic billboards since I drove in from the airport. Walking down the strip, it’s exhilarating to see the Under the Skin photo under the bright lights of the Luxor hotel sign. When you enter the hotel, there’s a video with clips of him performing. His photo lines the walls. One informs us that this is “The Fleetwood Mac guitarist and singer’s first solo U. S. Tour in 15 years.” Hmmm. That implies that Lindsey may have done a tour somewhere outside of the U.S. in the last 15 years! How did that get past me? Heaven knows I would have gone to the ends of the earth to see him . . .

His singing voice sounded the same tonight, but in the beginning I had the impression that his speaking voice was husky, as if he had a cold.

I don’t know about the new guitar tech. Every time he hands Lindsey a guitar, the chord of the new one gets tangled up with the chord of the guitar Lindsey is discarding. I’m telling you if LB trips and breaks his neck, someone’s gonna pay.

I noticed that during It Was You some of the focused fans have begun cheering each time Lindsey sing one of his children’s names. Of course, this gives him an extra burst of energy during that chorus.

For the Red Rover introduction, when he says that he wondered if the Gods might want to “pull the plug,” he notices the silence that follows his words and says, “No one laughed. I guess it’s a very dark thought.”

Before he begins Big Love, a man yells out, “I want to be with you everywhere!” Then, a woman in the front row says, “So do I.” Lindsey points to the woman and says, “I’ll take her,” while looking askance at the man. For my part, having heard the “everywhere” lyric, I yell out, “That’s Christine’s song.” I just wanted to get that in, in case it slipped Lindsey’s mind.

After Big Love there is more yelling. The man from the back demands that Lindsey “take your shirt off.” Lindsey raises his eyebrows again and points to the woman in the first row once more, “Do you want me to take my shirt off?” There is laughter and it takes a while for him to get in character for the intro to Go Insane. I have to say that people actually applauded his recitation of the Sardonic World poem.

During World Turning, the fans in the front row get up and crowd around the stage, almost as if on cue.

During the opening notes for GYOW, Lindsey is standing away from the mic chanting “Oh yeah,” in time to the beat.

After Holiday Road, Neale declares that all the barking has made him “horny.” Brett retorts, “what else is new?” Lindsey says, “We’ll take care of that later.”

Lindsey introduces Richard Dashut and Steve Ross in the audience again tonight. He asks them to stand and they are farther back than they were on Friday. Lindsey says, “I see you got the cheap seats tonight.” He points out that they were his co-conspirators on Holiday Road. Curran is right about Richard being a link to FM’s history. I think of him all the way back when long before Mick made that fateful New Year’s Eve call, all the way back when Stevie wanted to record bird sounds in the park.

After prompting from Neale, Lindsey announces to Richard that the "calamari in the wallet" thing didn't go over too well and explains that it is an inside joke.

Of Taku Lindsey says that he started as a percussionist, but they’ve asked him to do things that he’s never done before. Taku makes the “woof woof” sound as an example of something he hadn’t done before joining their band. Lindsey says, “that’s just the beginning. That’s just scratching the surface.”

As Lindsey introduces Brett, Brett starts banging the piano with his elbow (something he used to do during Don’t Stop, an antic which I don’t particularly like). Lindsey says, “Didn’t Dave Clark used to do that?” Then, he and Brett start bantering back and forth and Lindsey declares that Brett has made Lindsey lose his pace. Now that they are off the subject at hand, he turns back to Neale and says, “Do you have anything else to say?” Neale says, “I like Stephen King, walks on the beach and sunsets.”

Lindsey turns back to Brett and finishes introducing him. He muses that Brett will probably announce his room number later that evening. Brett says that they have been up for 3 straight days and wants clarification that what happens in Vegas really does stay in Vegas.

Then, as Brett espouses about how wonderful it is to work with Lindsey, Lindsey walks behind him and lays on the floor behind a pair of speakers. Brett explains that Lindsey hates that part of the show and lures him back out. Lindsey says that he hid because he just can’t stand to take a compliment. Oh please! Brett wasn’t introducing Lindsey when the tour started. He began doing it in the middle of the tour and keeps it up to this day. I can only assume that Lindsey forces Brett to praise him, as a condition of Brett’s continued employment.

The encores are SMAP and BTLH. One woman at the foot of the stage asks Lindsey to sing something else and he responds, “We can’t do that tonight. But we’ll do it during the next leg of the tour. Do you promise you’ll be there?” I didn’t hear the lady’s answer, but I promise that I’ll be there!

Leaving Las Vegas . . .

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