Topeka Performing Arts Center - Topeka, KS 8/8/24

I decided to skip the August 6 show in Omaha because I have already seen Joe at the Orpheum a couple of times, and it would have required an overnight hotel stay. Attending the August 8 show in Topeka allowed me to see him at a new venue (he said during the show it had been 10 years since he had played there), and to sleep in my own bed that night!

Because I waited so long to make that decision, I didn't expect to get a particularly good seat, but apparently there were some seats reserved for the artist which did not get put on sale until a couple of days prior to the show (no one redeeming ticket packages, I guess). I chose an aisle seat: Row B, Seat 1. It wasn't until I arrived at the venue that I realized for this particular show configuration there was no Row A. That meant that for just the second time in fifteen Joe B shows my seat was front row, center. See if you can spot me in the pic Joe posted the day after the show: https://www.flickr.com/photos/52889850@ … ed-public/

The Guitars: (listed by song numbers)

• Epiphone '63 SG Custom with JB neck inlays (1)

• Red Gibson ES 335 w/ small block inlays (2, 3, 9, 12, 14)

• Les Paul burst with no pickup covers (4)

• Les Paul burst with greenish tint (5, 8, 11)

• Blonde Stratocaster w/ maple neck (6, 7)

• '51 Nocaster, aka "The Bludgeon" (10)

• Red Stratocaster w/ rosewood neck (13)

• Blonde blackguard Telecaster (15)

The Main Set:

1. Hope You Realize It (Goodbye Again) - Reese got a nice solo on this one

2. You Upset Me Baby - another solo for Reese

3. Twenty-four Hour Blues

4. Well, I Done Got Over It

5. Self-Inflicted Wounds - marvelous solo by Jade on this one

6. I Want To Shout About It - excellent solos from Josh and Dani

7. Tiger In Your Tank

8. Blues Deluxe

9. Breaking Up Somebody's Home - featured solos by Josh and Reese

10. The Heart That Never Waits

11. Is It Safe To Go Home

12. See See Baby - solo spotlights for all three horn players

13. Hummingbird

    
    

    The Encores:

14. It's Hard But It's Fair - powerful solo by Monae

15. Mountain Time

It was a wonderful show, and if you have a chance to catch Joe and his band on this summer tour, don't miss it!