If John is coming your way, I encourage you to not only see him, but buy your tickets in advance.

I attended the JAE show Saturday night, "gotta kick with the band". There were 200-250 people there and the place was hopping nuts way more than the Lancaster, PA Monday night show and the North Jersey Thursday night show. It sems the rowdier the audience, the more Quiet John became. Very little interaction between JAE and the crowd, which is how we know him. JAE is the only guy I know who has his jeans and blue jean jacket dry-cleaned to the max with ample startch.

I stood three people back just in front of his right hand as he went through his usual set list minus a couple of his solo songs. Had Enough, Success Story, Trick of the Light, My Wife and Long Live Rock were serious highlights in the usual set list minus a couple of his solo songs. Had Enough, Success Story, Trick of the Light, My Wife and Long Live Rock were serious highlights in the night. On these aforementioned songs, the lead singer became unnecessary because the crowd chanted the words in an exquisitely tight, unified, seemingly well-rehearsed shout. The crowd became more the story than JAE because of the way the crowd responded. They danced, jumped, yelled to JAE between songs ad infinitim. This was the only one of the three concerts I saw where you could not yell to JAE between songs because of the residual clapping and cheering between songs. JAE seemed to be less flashy this performance with his playing but maybe that is because of my three visits in one week or him playing seven nights straight. Don't get me wrong, his fingers were so busy on each song that it is a true testament of the mind willing the body to play. No human can play bass the way JAE can. His fingers burned up the neck of the guitar. Smoke eminated from his hands. Even a friend I took with me who was a neophyte with JAE music before the concert, said he was strongly impressed with "Thunder Fingers". The Shaking All Over bass solo was truly the nights highlight next to the crowd who made this concert a total concert experience where both band and to the crowd who made this concert a total concert experience where both band and crowd feed off each other. I was fortunate enough to shake Johns hand as he high-fived at the end of the encore. Sound quality was much improved.

My highlight for the three shows was Shaking All Over in North Jersey where JAE brought the roof down with the solo at the end. If anyone taped that solo, they have "canned gold".

"Place WAS really jumping to the Hi-Watt amps" - These were the kind of lyrics the crowd really sang loud because we all knew that we were living the lyrics and the legend. Try that on for magic moment.

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