Worcester
Posted 11/15/2007 by Vagrant_Admin
The good old Palladium in Worcester, MA. I love this place. I have been playing in this room from the very beginning of my career. I opened for NFG in the small attic part of the room, opened for Face to Face in the main room, and had maybe ten of my favorite shows of my own as well. This was a night of friendly faces. Members of my family had traveled to be there. Friends and extended family came to visit, including my friend Al who was there to see her first rock show. The audience was there in its beaming fashion. It had all the ingredients for an exciting show. If you were there I am sure that you could tell. The dead give away was the fact that I couldn’t even wait for my own set to go out there on stage. I think I jumped into at least two or three of Ralston songs. Some nights are like that. You just need to be out there. That is the thing that makes me do this. That craving for connection, I crave that connection on an individual basis, and I feel like I get that with the audience. I always look at an audience as individuals as apposed to a faceless mass. I see your faces out there. I come to recognize them over the years. I come to know you and Iget as excited to see you as you get about seeing us.
The show was one of the top shows of the tour. The feeling of a show like that is hard to explain, but here is something that I think will convey a little bit of it to you. I play songs every night to people who want to hear them, but I never stop trying to make the songs the best they have ever been. I try to make them better than they were on the album and better by far than the last night’s performance, no matter how good they had been that night before. I play them like everything depends on it. I play them like I am proving them for the first time, like a ten to one underdog. But every now and again I walk off stage thinking, “How can I top that tomorrow?” This was one of those nights. I can’t tell you what exactly brings it out of me, but I know that every time I am in MA I get there, so it has to have something to do with the people there. Thanks for getting me to that place. I hope you enjoyed it as well as I did.
Chris
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