Reply #5: My wife could have started a post the EXACT same way you did! [View All]

"About 10+ years ago my husband and I went to a JR concert in a club in north Florida." My wife and I did, too!!

I saw him in Pensacola a few years back. We met him after, but that's where our posts differ. My wife mostly spoke to him, and said it was the biggest let down. She said he was the strangest guy, just plain weird. Maybe he was just tired, or on something, or if he said something to her she didn't want to tell me, but whatever.

Anyway, we're still big fans of his music. When we met, her 7-year old daughter listened right along with us. She's 13 and still likes him. My wife transcribed the words to "Closer" as a gift to me once. I love the "Bermuda monologue", which pretty much sums it all up as far as why he moved towards more innocent, fun music. I love so many of his songs I can't list them here (have you seen the Kohl's commercial using "Ice Cream Man"?)

For the Pensacola show, he had his drummer/sidekick with him. It wasn't nearly as good as when I saw him a few years before in Louisiana, totally solo, in a large theater with great acoustics. He had only his boots for percussion. It was mesmerising. One of the best live shows I've ever seen.