San Diego show by Steven D
Okay, lets try to jar that memory. I have had so many deadlines to met this week guys I am suprised I can still see straight!
 
Forgive me for being brief but the memory is not quite there.
The guys played at Humphreys by the bay. Which is an amazing place to see anybody, being that this is not your normal concert venue. I guess you can say it really isn't. It's just a hotel on the bay that somebody had a great idea to put a stage in the middle of. backstage is basically the hotels courtyard and rooms...Talk about
Maverick sightings!
 
So on to the show. The show started as usual. The Greek thing and all the guys took the stage just as the place filled in and jumped into D.T.N.A. and pretty much covered the first half of Trampoline. Which led into the re-worked version of Pretend.
 
The show then moved to Raul's spotlight where he performed Dream River and the capped it off with Can't Help Falling In Love. With a huge round of applause. Then somebody in the audience said "Cantante en Espanol"(translation: sing in Spanish!) Raul quipped "I need a little tequila to do that.
 
They then did something I really can't recall at this time; something off of M.F.A.O. I believe it was Foolish heart. Soon after that somebody came back from the bar with a shot of tequila for him. So he sucked it back and said "I promise I'll do something for you all" or something to that fact.
 
from hear on out It was a greatest hits type show.
 
Then came the 3, yes 3 encores. The first 2 totally expected. The 3 caught me by suprise I as walked towards
the exit and ending up getting stuck 1/4 off the way back!
 
The first two encores were pretty much the same as the Las Vegas shows which I told you about last week. The third encore was the best...It including "Help Yourself, Volver...Volver, and finishing with La Mucara. Or was it Twist and shout? I can't really remember the memory is hazy. Hopefully Shirley can confirm the order of
the encores.
 
Greeaaaatt Show...Bad Sound mix...Awesome venue...The Mavericks! That's all that mattered! I got pictures coming soon!
 
The Los Angeles show days before with Dwight Yoakam was a quick run through of their country days.  Great 1 hour show that brought the house to their feet. The funny quote of the night was from Raul to Robert as he took his time getting ready to play another song. "Your pants plugged in yet?"... "Yeah!" This being directed to those flashy pants Roberts been wearing lately.
 
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