[Becky]

Try listening to it and skipping The Hard Way, Making Memories of Us, She's Gotta Be, and Country Comfort. The Hard Way and Making Memories are just too slow. She's Gotta Be is a different song live, so I can't even listen to it on CD much. And Country Comfort--not even sure why that's on there. He's got demos of songs HE'S written that are a thousand times better.

I don't know if Keith takes suggestions from fans seriously or what, but he used to play THW and MMOU back to back in concert and I really thought it was buzzkill to go from the energetic opening to that. While talking to Jerry (the bassist), I shared what I loved about the show and then said, "But I want to be a little critical," and told him I thought that those two songs paired during that acoustic-based portion of the show was "buzzkill" when "You'll Think of Me" (another slow song) is just around the corner. Jerry said he thought I made a really good point and he agreed with me and he was going to tell Keith what I said.

They haven't played The Hard Way since. Now I don't know if that's coincidence or if Keith listens to his fans, but the timing is one of thoe things that makes you go, "Hmmmmm." If it's a matter of listening to constructive criticism from fans, I wish Bon Jovi would take a lesson from Keith. Taking out that song removed this lull in the set and the shows I've seen since have been stronger for it.

Becky