Just a quick pop in this morning. (Got home very late and now I'm sitting in the car dealership since my car started making a terrible rattle on the way home from the concert. And I forgot my power supply so I don't know how long I'll be online just now. LOL.)
First of all, I did get to meet another forum member (hillbilly1) and her 10 year old daughter - they were both very close to the front as well and it was really great to stop by and introduce ourselves. Always fun to put a real face to the name. :)
Anyway, great show overall. David was all smiles, although I do think he looked a little tired for the first set. (I'm actually wondering if he's starting to get a little bit of a cold, his breathing sounded a little stuffy at times). After the intermission he seemed a little more peppy.
As far as music goes - it's pretty much the same set list as the one from Heather's post so I won't repeat it here, but we *did* get a 3rd encore, so yay us. LOL. And the rock version of Flight of the Bumblebee was *perfect*. I hadn't heard that one before and it was really nice.
Everyone seemed to have a good time - there was a good mix of fans, although the classical fans seemed a little lost during more of the rock stuff, but I think that's pretty typical. (And on a fun note, there was a row of little girls sitting behind us and when David played "Air", they were humming along. It was really very cute.) There was a four year old girl in the front with us too and David came over that way several times and seemed to play for her. Very sweet.
Lots of musical banter between Marcus and David. They really seem to have a good time on stage. (Quite the "bromance", as my husband pointed out. LOL)
There were a couple of sound snafus, though. At the beginning of the first set when David came walking down the aisle, they sorta had to restart it because his violin mic wasn't coming through. And during "Little Wing", where the band had a chance to play, he disappeared back stage for a few minutes, but then you could actually hear him warming up over the rest of the band for about 30 seconds.
I didn't really get any pictures this time - and the ones I did get turned out very blurry. (I'm waiting to see if my husband had any better luck, but might be a day or so). And unfortunately, even though I was in the front row, I did have an obstructed view at times because of that music stand of his. He moved around enough (and I've seen him in concert before), so it wasn't that big a deal to me, but the guy next to me was really pissed off about it. When David sat down, he was pretty much completely blocked out by the thing. I know there's not much we can do here to get him to change it, but it does seem kinda irritating to pay that much for tickets up close and then end up missing some of the brillant fingerwork.