Pittsburgh October 18
In the morning, I hopped on a train at Penn Station to Harrisburg, PA. My friend picked me up and we headed to Pittsburgh. Since we had been driving in day of, we relaxed a bit and got to the venue during John Calvin Abney’s set since all of us had already seen him at an RGB show (and me a couple of nights before). While the setlist said Isaac’s solo was going to be Hand in Hand, he ended up doing River because Pittsburgh has a lot of rivers. Zac did Broken Angel and Taylor disappointed me once again by playing Save Me. Again, it was a very similar setlist to previous shows. (It may be harder to mix things up as much as they’d like because it’s 2 nights and twice as many songs to remember?) Zac once again was annoyed with Isaac needing to tune and started to go on about how it would be if drums needed tuning and if he just tightened them before songs.
After the show we went outside to wait for the after party, saw Isaac and Zac get on the bus and waved. Zac ended up leaving and we weren’t sure what happened to Isaac as we went inside for the party but Taylor has been playing the same DJ set pretty much every show so I am not sure we will end up going to the other 2 that we have tickets for… Once again we left before 1am. (We are OLD Taylor… how do you do it?!)
Pittsburgh October 19
Night 2 was a special one – it was my 300th Hanson show! On the train on the way to PA I ended up ordering 3 0 0 balloons to hold up during the show. I ended up deciding to do it during MMMBop because I knew that one was going to for sure end up played. However, I could have really had my pick as the setlist was still pretty similar. We DID get an additional Isaac solo where he called a “special guest” – a guy came up from the audience and then Isaac called his girlfriend on stage as well. I’m sure you can guess what happened next – he proposed and she said yes and Isaac sang For Your Love for them. I think that is the first time I’ve witnessed an engagement during a show – but there was another one I think before they hit the stage in DE?
During MMMBop I ended up holding up the balloons (with a little help from my friends) and it seemed like it took forever for anyone to notice – but once Taylor did he pointed and gave me a thumbs up and then a salute. We were pretty excited and then before If Only he actually said to give it up for 300 shows and pointed me out in the balcony and said something about how he didn’t even know if he had been to 300 shows.
After the show we waited by the bus and I was able to get photos with all 3 of them and my balloons. The highlight though was Taylor telling me he uses my site (hansonstage) to see what he’s played before and also just said “wow”. But still no Pink Moon. I requested it to Taylor via bracelet, he said they were having some issues putting it together… I’m not hopeful that I’ll end up hearing it.