There's a fine line between writing down what you see and experience and that becoming or being taken as criticism. I for one do not want a CD experience when I go to a live show. Each of the 6 shows I've been lucky enough to see this tour have been different, some better than others overall, but each having high points and "lower" points.
The times when Meat, or anyone else in the band for that matter deviates from the normal path of the song (either deliberately or by accident) are what make each show unique, and I for one write about those not as a means of criticism but as a way of sharing my experiences with those who couldn't attend the shows.
Meat stopped singing the opening line of Paradise last night because he wasn't happy with the way he started the song. He lost his microphone at one point last night as well. At one of the previous shows he started the wrong verse during Took The Words, and then corrected himself with good self-deprecating humour. He dropped his gum onto his guitar at Manchester. He sang a wrong note at the second show in Manchester and proclaimed "That wasn't the right note, but it WAS a note!"
All of these things contribute to making each show different from the last.
What is never in doubt in my mind is that the energy is there, and the commitment is there, always! I just hope all of that is what comes across when I write my reviews down? I'm revealing the show "warts and all" I suppose, but hopefully in a positive way?
AndyK
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