[imported_Ordinary_Man]

Triangle
Cotton Jenny
14 Karat Gold
Never Too Close
A Painter Passing Through
In My Fashion
Rainy Day People
Shadows
Beautiful
Carefree Highway
Hangdog Hotel Room
Ribbon Of Darkness
Sundown
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Alberta Bound
Me and Bobby McGee
Waiting For You
Make Way for the Lady
If You Could Read My Mind
Don Quixote
Baby Step Back
Early Morning Rain
Restless

Blackberry Wine (encore)

This was my third concert this week and fourth this year which are both personal records.
Gord's voice at this show was the best I heard all week. He had the night off on Thursday and maybe that was the difference. Only once, and I don't remember the song, did I hear anything like the scratchiness he had earlier in the week, and it didn't last long.
My friends and I had front row seats right in front of Mike Heffernan and it was cool to be that close and see the facial expressions and watch Gord's rhythm work on the guitar.

Gord seemed to have a lot of energy and they did the show with NO intermission. When the "Fitz" came and went without a break, I worried that we were going to see a shortened show but my concerns were unfounded. There WERE a couple of breaks as Gord signed autographs for a couple of women who brought things to the stage. One young lady must have had a half dozen or more things to sign (I think one item was a mouse pad) and while Gord took them to a stool and signed them, she shouted at the top of her voice that she has loved Gord since she was twelve years old, she wanted to marry him, he's the greatest, etc. When he finally signed all her stuff, he came back to the mike to discover that he no longer had his pick. He went back to the stool and located it. When there were further attempts at autographs, security stepped in and that was the end of that.

Late in the show, Gord told of recently speaking with Kris Kristofferson and finding out that they would be appearing in California in some of the same venues about a week apart. Kris said he would try to come see Gord's show. So Gord, wanting to be ready for such an eventuality, has been working on Me and Bobby Mcgee and we got to hear it. Also, the crowd hummed along at the end with the "na na na, na na na" part and it sounded way cool. It seemed as if Gord extended it a bit since it sounded so good.

I first heard the "How long was the "hair" on the rabbit?" joke at Joliet IL on Sunday night. The answer there was 3 seconds. But in St. Louis and Kansas City, the answer was 2 and a half seconds. I can only conclude that Missouri is a hare faster than Illinois.

I guess that's about it. Had a great week of Gord's shows that I'd been waiting for all summer I guess. Hope to see him again next year.


Steve