Yesterday morning (Tuesday) I got up early, drove to my friends and had breakfast with them before driving up to Portland Airport again. The weather was now a bit foggy but it was still dry. After returning my rental car and the check-in for my flight to San Jose I headed straight to the gate. The flight was packed as they had to put two flights on this one. Another flight to San Jose had to return to Portland due to problems with the de-icing which can lead into really dangerous situations. But still we departed on time. Once we had climbed out of Portland we got into the clouds and didn’t leave them until we descended into San Jose. Well, I had the chance to enjoy excellent views on my flight up to Portland so I won’t complain. The weather in California was by far not as good as a few days ago when I left. Now it was pretty cloudy and not too warm.

I got to my hotel (which is right next to the HP Pavilion) by bus and tram and by the time I had checked in it was almost 5pm. There was a meet-up with other members from the official forum in the city center not far from the arena and that’s were I went then. Together with at least another 30 fans I spent some nice 2 hours in a pub before going back to the arena.

There’s not too much to say about the show. The atmosphere was great and although the audience sat during quite a few songs they really participated very well! Again, the mistakes were just minor ones (e.g. the drum triggers at the end of Turn It On Again didn’t work properly). After the show I met some of the people from the earlier meet-up again and we had another drink a different pub. When we left at around 0.30am It was raining outside! I would’ve never expected that and therefore hadn’t brought a jacket. So by the time I was back at the hotel I was glad to have a hair-dryer on my room…

Now I’m still in San Jose (a very unspectacular city) and will take the train to Sacramento in about 2 hours. Another show ahead, tonight at the ARCO Arena.

Ulli

Still no changes even in Silicon Valley:

Behind The Lines / Duke’s End
Turn It On Again
No Son Of Mine
Land Of Confusion
In The Cage / The Cinema Show / Duke’s Travels
Afterglow
Hold On My Heart
Home By The Sea / Second Home By The Sea
Follow You Follow Me
Firth Of Fifth / I Know What I Like
Mama
Ripples
Throwing It All Away
Domino
Drum Duet
Los Endos
Tonight Tonight Tonight (intro)
Invisible Touch

I Can’t Dance
The Carpet Crawlers

In a recent interview, that is currently being spread by Reuters, Peter Gabriel hints that Genesis (Tony, Mike & Phil with Daryl and Chester) may continue the tour with new shows in Europe next year. Gabriel says “I’m hoping to see the show because I think they’re going to do some more European dates”. Gabriel also says that a reunion with him and Steve is still not out of the question, but just a lot of work.
Meanwhile, Gabriel has continued work on his next soloalbum, that will be released “in autumn. or spring. In some year”…
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