Wednesday night David Cook brought his scars open eyes closed tour to the Kate in Old Saybrook. He had Leah Marlene opening, who was on Idol a couple of years ago and placed 3rd.
Before the show I opted to do his V. I. P. which changed a bit from past tours of doing the photo opp M&Gs. He did a 45 minute Q and A session where he played 2 songs, which was a cover of Collective Soul’s The World I Know and Jimmy Eats World’s The Middle. He answered questions for like 45 minutes and talked to us a bunch about idol, some behind the scenes stuff about when Mariah Carey mentored him, which he hasn’t said to anyone ever in years. I’m not gonna say what specifically he said about her. You’ll have to ask him yourself. Then we get a group photo at the end which he said make things go quicker, because he often spent too much time talking to everyone at the Meet & Greets wanting to make sure everyone had a moment and then it would cut into time for doors or time for him to eat. He thought that this was just a better scenario. I really like it because he talked a lot about songwriting and how it works for him and things like that, which I found to be really interesting and if we just did the photo I would have asked him some dumb question about who knows what if I even asked him anything at all.
As I mentioned Leah open the night. She did about a 30 minute set, which was 4 or 5 songs on her electric guitar. She was really good and she seemed to really enjoy the crowd and the city of Old Saybrook but I was kind of surprised to see people in the front row, like blatantly having their phones on texting with people with the brightness up to a 100%, but she took it in stride.
I really enjoyed her set. I probably should have stopped to talk with her a little bit after the show, but I was trying to get home because 8am meetings the day after a concert are not a fun time.
David took the stage a little after eight, he had a short set but chatted a lot during the set. Which always makes up for the difference in songs. He always has something weird or hilarious to say this time. He ended up talking about tithing and someone in the crowd screamed, this is New England and he kind of lost it and was cracking up and was joking about how tithing probably started here. We’re in the birthplace of America. And/or it came over from the U. K where people were trying to leave religious prosecution and and then he goes well, if you don’t call it tithing, what do you call it to which someone yelled out taxes and then we really lost him. Even his guitar player said that he had been playing with him for 5 years now and had never seen him get broken quite like that, so that was a lot of fun when he kept kind of looping back to it during the show which made things even funnier, and he needed to keep taking breaks just because he was laughing so hard. Then he said that he was going to be lying in bed in a room all by himself that night and would just still be laughing to himself about it. So glad he had a good time. Hope that means he’ll come back to Connecticut. The set was mostly newer songs and a few older ones. And then the final song of the 4 song finale was his new song dead weight, which he so nicely released for me on my birthday, but I hadn’t had a chance to listen to it yet, so I had to listen to it live for the first time and I wasn’t sure what to expect. But I really loved it and I’m gonna have to listen to it like 300 more times when I get some free time!
