Harrisburg Pa 8/30/07

Hey Cathy glad you guys had a great time!  Happy camper days are here again, or something like that.  That's too bad about Michael's mom, but glad to hear that she is getting better.

A 75 minute setlist can indeed go by fast, but that is better than none at all.  When looking at Lee's pictures the other day I did seem to notice how thin Joe was looking.   Good job Joe...

I noticed that too Jane last week. Were these the same shoes? http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id … p;size=oIt was cool to listen to Joe stomp out the beat to "High Water" with those shoes as he marched through the song. Did they have the shirts you wanted? Anyway, nice review ladies and happy to hear you had fun!

Hey Cathy and Jane, great reviews, I know after those shows end I get bummed out. I start to realize that I wait months for the show to happen and it's over in a short time. It's all good after tonight, when I hit that $300,000,000 jack pot tonight, I'll be able to go anywhere at any time. You guys want to travel with me, I'll pay all your expenses.
Seriously, the best thing about the shows are hanging with your forum friends, know what i mean? I've had a blast throwing down beers and hanging with JDAWG, just a great guy, and we both have the same taste in music. I really hope the forum get together happens in the near future, so we can put the faces with the words.

Shred....."the Sac town pimp"

The acoustic version of High Water Everywhere was the best song of the set in my opinion.  The sound quality of that room was very good.  I was way up in the balcony and you could hear Joes foot tapping the stage like he was right next to you.  From where I was sitting up top I felt the show could have been a little louder though.  Kind of a different experience since I'm usually up front at the general admission shows.  Awesome show.

Hey....big THANKS! to Jane for thinking of me for the "extra" ticket....was a bit stressed about getting there on time but it all worked out.

Beautiful theater, nice people, Joe kicked butt, as per usual.

Highlights for me, personally, were the acoustic portion of the set...High Water, Heartaches "unplugged" (Joe on acoustic with the band quietly in background), the Woke Up Dreaming was absolutely on FIRE, with some lightning-fast staccato runs ala Al DiMeola.  His ability to use dynamics in his playing amazes me. Another Kind of Love is just a great groove.  I'm really digging the Eastern-flavored intro to Mountain Time, though I can also hear Jane's thoughts on something more Celtic.  Sloe Gin was great (though I missed the distorted wah-wah flair on "stormy seas"), I kinda dug the delay on the vocals at first, but it started to get distracting after a while....still cool.  As a music lover and a mediocre guitarist, I am constantly amazed at Joe's ability to play such neat-sounding stuff that is SO far from the penatonic scale (you guitar guys (and GALS, Fretwork, Mary, etc.) KNOW what I'm talkin' about) but that somehow fits perfectly.

Was great to chat with Joe at the bus afterwards....such a gentleman, and stuck around til the last autograph got signed and the last few die-hards were just making small talk when he finally dropped the curtain on a great night.  I see Johnny Winter and Leon Russell (yes, together) are playing the same venue soon, I may consider getting tix for that based on some of the JW reviews I've heard here.

Keep on rockin' the blues!!

CarljMD (the Doctor)

I'm a little late posting this but my computer had a nasty virus and crashed. Thank goodness for computer geek friends!

It was so nice to meet Jane, Cathy and Carl the other night. The Whitaker Center was beautiful inside. I have very little I can add to the review since the ladies did such a fine job doing that. I loved the acoustic songs Joe did, his vocals give me goosebumps. I still can't believe he did Heartaches Were Nickels. I love that song and it was the 1st time I've seen him do it live. Rick tore up the keyboards, he really had 'em smokin' on his solo.  Carmine has some beautiful bass guitars which he proceeded to vibrate my innards with and Bogie, well what can I say? That boy is an amazing drummer! I was a little disappointed with Joe's mic, when he stepped away from it to hit those powerful vocal notes, the mic didn't pick it up and we lost his voice.  Fortunately we were close enough to still hear him. All in all, I was in heaven for 75 minutes!

We mingled around the tour bus until the very end when Joe thanked us all and said goodnight.  Joe is such a down to earth guy, my hat goes off to his parents who have done an outstanding job raising him! It was a very good show, well worth the 4 hour drive.

Joe is a legend in the making, and I'm witnessing history being made each time I see him.