Review provided by Antonio Terni We were very excited arriving to Murcia, because for the first time we were going to assist to a concert in such a small place (less than 2000 seats) although I thought that if you are in first row it doesen't really matter how many people you have behind you. And I was wrong. At 5 pm we went to the theatre to get our tickets and found some people we'd met at the previous shows who were looking for tickets but we couldn't help them. Fortunately they were all able to get a ticket later. After a short walk in the center of Murcia we went to the theatre for the concert. The Auditorio Narciso Yepes is very small, confortable and cosy, with large velvety seats alligned in semicircles around the stage so that everybody can have a perfect view wherever they are. The stage is much lower than usual, so sitting in the second row (toward the left as usual) we were at the same level as the band having the impression of sitting in our living room and having Bob & band playing for us at home. When the concert started we had the impression that something was wrong. People clapped hands very politely but , with few exceptions, nobody seemed really excited. I suppose that the percentage of fucking VIPs who go to the concerts only to show themselves was much higher than usual because of the small venue. Or maybe the fans were intimidated by the precious environtment they were sitting in, I don't know. Anyway as the concert went on people started to get more involved and at a certain point somebody screamed "piel de gallina" ( I don't know how to express that in English, but it means the effect that a sudden emotion has on your skin) and Bob laughed at that. The highlights of the concert were in my opinion a very sweet Tomorrow is a long Time, My Back Pages and Mama You Been on my Mind. Sandro had bought on the highway a set of fuses to ask for Tombstone Blues but the version we had tonight was not very inspired in our opinion. At the end we had only 15 songs, 9 of them acoustic ( maybe a sign of respect for the great guitarist Narciso Yepes) but three songs with harp. At the end,especially while Maggies Farm, Bob was constantly looking upwards at his right as if there was somebody special on that direction, but this altered the distance between his lips and the microphone, so that most of the words were not intelligible. So we went out very politely and slightly disappointed but a couple of beers and a big portion of Jamon Pata Negra raised up inmediately our spirits and we were ready for a day off and a slow drive towards Zaragoza where we don't have reserved seats so that we'll have to queue to get our first row position. On the road again. Antonio Terni a.terni@fastnet.it
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