Better late than never, I hope. Here's a copy of my review from the Knitting Factory thread:
Here's my kind of late 2 cents worth, with more details for Emcee - first a couple of negative things. I did feel that Adam wasn't in quite as good voice as at the first Joe's Pub show, where I thought his singing was really terrific. Overall this time he sang really well, but he had trouble with some of the high notes. (When I first heard Civilian I thought about how difficult it was vocally and whether that might become a challenge for live performances.) Also I liked the sound system at Joe's better. The KF one seemed to muddy things up a bit.
And on a purely personal note, I should have worn different shoes to a show where I would be standing for two hours.
On to the rest. I loved the way they started the show, with the band coming on and immediately going into the intro for 10,000 Miles, with Adam bounding on to start singing. He really sang the hell out of that song, It was a good idea to have a detachable mike that he could move around more with. He did a lot more moving around in general, even while playing guitar. I've seen all the comments about Adam's dancing, but I thought everything he did looked great. He was much looser in general than at the Joe's Pub show.
Toward the end when he was spending some time tuning his guitar and Glen started playing, Adam's responses were really funny. First he suggested to Glen that he "entertain the people while I tune." The crowd starting whooping it up to the great riff Glen was doing, and Adam said "not *too* much." Then he went into a Spinal Tap British accent and started talking about "Derek Smalls, he wrote this himself." (Bodes well for the Pink Floyd musical.) He also did a sort of Mr. Bill voice for the "international sign for 'help me'." It was all really funny stuff.
I agree that this was not the venue in which to do theater music, and also hope he does more Model Prisoner in the future.
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