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Toby Keith with Rascal Flatts Concert Review | |
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As the lights went down, a video started playing on the screens on each side of the stage as well as the center rear. It was a porch of a house and you heard a girl saying "No, Toby, you won't get your way... stop licking me... ok, ok." And the door opens and a bulldog comes out of the door on the porch and down the steps. He wears a collar with a tag saying "Toby." The dog has a voice that I think might be Toby, but I'm not sure. He starts out of the yard and down the street, continuing to talk as he sees things. He sees a woman with a little dog on her lap and the dog is wearing a sweater, and Toby remarks "nice sweater." Then he sees two full size white poodles, and he gets all excited saying "I've never had two at a time before." and then the owner takes the dogs away and Toby remarks "probably lesbians." Then he sees a guy sitting on the steps on a cell phone. You only see the bottom half of this guy's legs and hear him say "Yeah, I saw that Unleashed tour last night and that guy Toby sucks. He can't sing or anything." To this Toby (remember, I'm talking about the dog, not the singer) decides to use the guy's leg as a fire hydrant. Then, he leaves and looks for more fun. He then sees a newspaper learning against the wall, with Bin Laden on the front and again, Toby sprays the paper right in Bin Laden's face. Everyone is cheering at this. He then goes home and is let back in his house.
Next you see Toby rising out of the top platform and singing "Gimme 8 More Seconds." Next, Toby sang "Country Comes To Town," and then "I'm Just Talking About Tonight." Toby then warned us he was gonna get "Western" on us, and sand "Should've Been a Cowboy." Next came his current single, "Who's Your Daddy."
Toby explained that he didn't feel that there were enough drinking songs out there so every so often he feels the need to write one. He then said the next song was a duet with Willie Nelson, "Beer For My Horses," but Willie wasn't there that night, but he'd sing it anyway. Then came "My List," and "You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like That," and an incredible version of "Does That Blue Moon Ever Shine On You." The last song was sung with fog machines blowing fog all over the stage and into the audience. It was very eerie, and cool! When these were done he said "That's about as tender as I'm gonna be."
Toby introduced Scotty Emerick, who's in his band, plus he writes a lot of songs with. He explained that when they're out on the road they write a lot of what he calls "bus songs." He said these are songs they write but they'll never record them, and never play them on the radio. He said they'd like to do a few "bus songs" for us, cuz just cuz they can't record them doesn't mean you can't sing them live.
The first song was one he wrote while watching the CNN coverage of the troops in Afghanastan. He said it's called "The Taliban." It was a very funny song, if politically incorrect. He talked about life from the view point of a guy living in Afghanastan. He talked about his wife with the veil and you couldn't see her face, and riding on camels and the best part was where he said they "flipped the bird at the Taliban." Everyone loved that. Toby said this is the part where the audience participates.
Then, he asked if we wanted to hear one more "bus" song, which everyone cheered at. So, Toby told us about visiting Willie on his bus, and how you have to pass around the whiskey and then some other stuff... you know... The name was "I'll Never Smoke Weed With Willie Again." Everyone was laughing at the lyrics of this song.
Toby then said he was the spokesman for the Rednecks of America, and lead that into "You Ain't Much Fun" and then "Getcha Some."
Next, Toby brought Rascal Flatts and Paul Thorn out on stage to sing a song that I have no clue what it's called. It's a gospel song, and some of the guys had tamborines as they sang along.
Back to some audience participation with "A Little Less Talk, And A Lot More Action." Toby sings the first part and the audience repeats the second part. After this, he introduced his band, The Easy Money Band. Then, he sang "I Wanna Talk About Me."
The next part is all the band, and Toby leaves the stage for a bit while one of his band members dances along to the "Theme from Hawaii 5-0." Then the whole band came out, including one member dressed like "Sponge Bob," and they danced to some disco music. It was really funny.
Toby came back and asked if there are any "angry Americans" out there. This of course lead into the song "Brought To You Courtesy of the Red White And Blue," where Toby played his flag-patterned guitar, and the song was capped off with confetti in Red White and Blue blown into the audience plus pyrotechnic blasts at the rear and front of the stage.
After this he left the stage and everyone chanted "Toby..Toby..Toby.." for about 3 minutes. Then, his band came back and he ended the evening with "How Do You Like Me Now?!"
What a show this was! The show lasted about 1 1/2 hours, and it was well worth the money.
Here is Toby Keith's full set list:
Toby puts on a heck of a show. He does what he wants and says what he wants and means what he says.
