SF Great American Music Hall 5/21/02

The show was great!!! Joe was wonderful, He stopped mid-song several times to talk with & answer the audience. At one point he even asked for the house lights to be turned on cause there were some guys in the balcony, "talking bad" he wanted to make sure they paid to get in, when they said yes he said they could talk bad if they wanted...everyone was laughing. When he started singing NYC Girls, he stopped to tell how Eman & him were chasing the SF cable cars (which he called trolleys) trying to figure out how to get on, if they had to pay, how to get off lol. Joe messed up the words to some songs a few times. He sang some songs from his albums...2 from Eman's album...1 & 1/2 Frank Sinatra songs & a new song called "Dreams" (or Dreams from my Mother, I'm not sure which). Cover Girl & 1 other song from someone else. He both him & Eman drank 1 Cosmopolitan each...then some people bought them shots (the bartender called the 151's) & tried to get hem to drink them...after ignoring the people yell shots for a while they finally said No they wouldn't drink them till the end of the show. Which they did, Joe said he'd never drink one of those again. After a few mins they finished the show with "Why".

The show started about 8:15pm & ended at 10:10pm. Joe did not leave the venue till 11:45pm. I'm not sure when Eman came out. By the time he came out there were only about 25 people waiting for him...When the show ended there were at least 50 people. His car was parked right in front.

I almost didn't get to meet him, the last Bart train (subway) left at 12:20 & it was 9 blocks from the venue. Just as my friend & I were getting ready to leave he came out & the others where nice enough to let me be first. I had just enough time to get my CD signed & get a pic with him, then I had to leave Luckily SF blocks are short....I made it to the station with only 5 mins to spare lol.

Dawn