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Mini meltdown? Okay, here’s a meltdown of a whole other sort. Thank dog I took notes, ya’ll ‘cause holy mother of cupcakosity, now THAT is the reason I keep getting sucked into buying tickets to more shows. Afraid I might miss something like Thackerville. I’m not a squee’r by nature but, Jaaassuss chriiiiist (/MITB) that show was like nibbling the sprinkles and licking the icing off of the cupcake, sinking your teeth into the moist tasty goodness only to encounter a burst of sweet custard or fluffy cream or a fudgey, gooey center of awesomeness.

First, pray to all that is wholey, holey and holy that somebody recorded Lie. Dave stopped playing guitar in the middle of the song and went a cappella. The audience was totally quiet and his voice (yes, Dave, your beautiful voice) just floated out over the room. The acoustics were fabulous and he sounded glorious. Just so beautiful that it’s almost disrespectful to start again with the squee but dang, BF was energetic and on fire and working those arms to get the crowd moving and he looked mighty fine doing it.

But, need to do a ydniW and rewind because the epicness started with Ryan. (Side note: his skivvies were bright blue.) He wanted to thank Dave for taking him on tour so he called Dave out on stage to sing his favorite song, “Sink or Swim?” Have I even heard of that? Yeah, I don’t think so. So, he sat Dave down next to the drums, kneeled down in front of him and started singing the Magic Rainbow. Dave cracked up but refused to sing along. Ryan sang the entire song and got the audience up and swaying their arms and singing with him. It was a total lovefest and dammit, a LOT of f***ing people know that song. In case you were wondering.

Later, during Dave’s set he commented that having to sing a song called the Magic Rainbow for an entire year puts everything into perspective (with LiteralDave waving his arm in an arc to indicate…Magic Rainbow!). And the best part of his statement was that he totally called TOML the Magic Rainbow. Yeah, Dave. Now, if you’ll just do the wind in your hair gesture stateside we’ll know you’ve dented your Idol crown for good.

Other goodness? He was doing the speech of humble gratitude and thanking Oklahoma for representing. He then paused and thanked everyone from Texas who drove up to the show and I swear, the roof almost blew off the place. Dave had to take a step back the cheer that went up was so loud and deafening and long. Hopefully, he got the message.

Dave introduced KOTN by forming the hearthands. Can I get an aaah? Except that he then turned it inside out until he was flipping the bird with both hands. He got NFT to wiggle his ten digits to prove he’s back in plucking form and they then proceeded to do a smoking version of HFT, which Dave claimed they hadn’t been performing since Neal couldn’t play it with his bum finger. Yo Arms just keeps getting better. Neal totally owns that song. And as Dalocksta mentioned, Neal's Dad was there. Doesn’t he live in Dallas? Geez, Dave, bring the show home to your boy. We also got Artie stripping and making crazy hands all around Dave. Dave giving Kyle the whale spout and Kyle eventually getting him back. We got Joey giving a dissertation on aptness and, at some point while Dave was playing guitar, he went back to the drums and picked up a bottle of water by the neck with his mouth. I have no idea if he was actually drinking it or not. If he was, he didn’t get a drop on him and he also didn’t choke himself. He gently put it back down, came back to the mic and continued to sing. Did I mention this was epic? Dalocksta, you couldn’t have picked a better show.

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