05/01/02 - GULFSTREAM PARK FESTIVAL, HALLANDALE, FL

(Above & Below) Keith pole dances around the microphone while BA laughs!

Summary by Bryan King:
In one of the weirder tour scheduling in BA’s career, this nine show tour during the Holiday season of 2001/2002 starts in the western US with shows in Vegas and Arizona, then three shows on the other side of country in Florida and then four shows back out west in California. I suppose the three day breaks between the western and eastern shows was required to ship the equipment from shore to shore. The range of venues on this tour was also diverse. A casino, outdoor festival venues, clubs, theatre, amphitheatre and a legendary venue to close the tour in San Francisco at The Fillmore.

This gig is part of the GulfStream Park Festival in Hallandale, FL (located in between Fort Lauderdale and Miami). The venue is outdoors and the concert takes place during the afternoon of a multi-day holiday season festival. The concert stage is set up in the middle of a Thoroughbred Racetrack. As pathetic as the venue sounds, it is actually a tour stop for many acts since it holds about 10,000 people.

Seeing the footage on the DVD, it looks like one of the lamest gigs I’ve seen on DVD. I just can’t see the band being excited about playing a daytime gig for a bunch of causal who may or may not be interested in what the band is about. The band is also on a time schedule and drops songs such as Blues Jam which results in Heaven going directly into The Only Thing...which not an effective transition.

Seeing that BA hadn’t had a “big” CD out in the USA since 1993 (So Far So Good) and the his last two projects pretty much tanked (18 Til I Die and On A Day Like Today) in the US market, there would have been very little reason for fans deep in the south of Florida to get excited about this show.

Even still, the band do their thing and deliver the best they can. Keith's dancing efforts during She's Only Happy...might be enough to please the female viewers. BA added a few more older songs for the US audiences that recognize him more for his pre-1994 material than anything afterwards. Thought I’d Died and Gone to Heaven, Take Me Back, She's Only Happy, and Please Forgive Me.

Setlist:
Back To You
House Arrest
18 Til I Die
Can't Stop This Thing We Started
Summer Of '69
It's Only Love
Thought I'd Died And Gone To Heaven
Everything I Do
Cuts Like A Knife
She's Only Happy When She's Dancin'
Take Me Back
Please Forgive Me
When You're Gone
Heaven
The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You
Cloud #9
Somebody
Run To You

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Thanks to Karen Petersen for the pictures.