Hi Satriella - thanks for inadvertently answering my post with your great story ("he injured himself playing with his kid..") - the limp seemed to be gone tonight, which is cool.
Just got back from Cardiff. Got last minute tickets this morning (although pushing it a bit having gone to bed at 4am, then up at 7 for work), which is kinda greedy considering I saw and met the maestro in B'mouth yesterday.
Anyway, you all know how addictive this can be!
So a great show with a magical performance and I think improved sound over yesterday. Couple of stand out moments:
1. Hopeless (drunk?) air guitar guy crowding Joe during the MPHGT arpeggio, who was eventually removed
2. The Chicken putting in an appearance and inspiring Galen to sing kill the chicken(?) as part of crowd chant, amidst bursts of laughter as Jeff managed to rhythm "wind" the chicken into the mic....
3. The crowd getting up and staying up, albeit only for the encore tracks. I think (hope) the band really dug that
4. And..... a VERY jazz moment on the ascending scale in verse 2 of Always. Me thinks that just went into the wrong key right Sir Joe? And that's what the little grin was all about? Maybe someone else who hit Cardiff will tell me if I dreamt that.
HERE's the killer though.... whilst my parents hung out with Joe I was asleep - D O H !! Will anyone here forgive me????
After the show I did the usual of hanging around and as my parents are such big fans they came too. Security started getting a little anal with "don't go any further and we won't have a problem" - at a point when I was about (not kidding) 200yds from the stage door!! followed about 2 minutes later with "the crew have confirmed Mr Satriani has left".
Sorry matey - he was Platinuming it with the lucky few who'd signed up for that - so less of the power trip please. By this time my father had SAS'd his way to the stage door, and my mum seemed to have glue on her shoes after hearing the scary mans voice.
Knowing that it would be at least an hour, and how I nearly froze to death yesterday, I went back to the car to catch a catnap - BUT not even super colossal (my Pa on mobile with a "get your arse in gear" message) was enought to wake the kip that ensued.... SORRY Joe, wasn't being rude : ) You know how I like to catch 5 minutes here and there with you.
End result is Joe chatting and signing with my parents for 10 minutes and me catching Z's oblivious to the whole thing!!
Thanks again Joe for being such a gentleman, especially at the end of a long day, and adding some extra magic to the night for a couple of fans. Oh, and 24hrs later my little boy can't get over the fuss you guys made of him yesterday and how he met his fave 2 musicians in the universe! You are too kind by far Sir!
Take care Joe and crew, and have a good rest of the tour. Can we have some more road photos and perhaps some comments in T2J from you please?
G'night fellow T2J'ers - it's 3.30am and at any minute my head may hit the keyboard for some random messaging!
L8rs
