Last week we got to see Chris Cornell on his current acoustic tour.

It’s a very different, extremely intimate feeling. Town Hall venue is essentially a tiny Broadway theater and we were really close to the stage. He spent a lot of time talking about the stories behind songs before playing them. He did quite a few requests, too. Kind of impressive because between Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, Audioslave, solo stuff, and things he wrote for movie scores, there are several hundred songs.

His 5 year old son, who we could see playing air guitar and singing along off stage…. was invited out onto the stage for a couple of songs. It was really cute, even though he didn’t know the words to the second song … they had his mic pretty low though, could barely hear him.

Highlight of the show for me was “Sweet Euphoria.” He said he hasn’t played it in over 10 years (setlist.fm agrees!). While he stumbled through a couple chord progressions, vocally he sounded spot on.

For most of the show, everyone was in their seats. Lots of clapping and cheering and requesting, but all in all kinda weird sitting there. For the encore he had everyone stand and moved forward, had more of a rock show feel to it. I felt he rushed through the encore, while we did get a 25 song set, he seemed to want to get back to his family off stage at the end.

All said, still a great show. I should have gotten tickets for last night in Poughkeepsie too

All my pictures here.

A couple of weeks back, we finally got to see Rod.

Lethy has been wanting to see him forever – his shows sell out super fast and the resale market for his shows is insane!

Stevie Nicks opened and did a mix of her own stuff with quite a bit of Fleetwood Mac mixed in – Landslide, Gold Dust Woman, Go Your Own Way, White Winged bird, etc. Unable to find a set list.

She seemed genuinely excited to be there and really grateful for all the applause and sing-alongs. She also joined Rod for a few duets, which honestly didn’t sound so great, but it’s the best photo I have of her so…

Rod had exactly the sort of personality you’d expect. He spoke and it felt like he was talking to you, not you and thousands of other people. His voice was good and his set was nice.

The central floating video panel was jaw droppingly sharp.

Can’t find his set list either, which is weird. He sang 5 or 6 songs I knew, but he did some other stuff I had no clue what it was. He explained that he was trying to sing some of the songs from the first time he played MSG in the 60s as singer for Jeff Beck. It’s nice to get a unique performance, but honestly I’d have preferred more hits.

Still, all in all due almost completely to his charisma, an A+ show.

Up next for us, Chris Cornell acoustic!