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Scoop, Where Are You? Las Vegas, Saturday, March 11, 2006
Sunday, March 12th, 2006I wish Scoop were available to write — or help write — this review in case I don’t have all the words to tell you how great the show was. (So, Scoop, if you were there, jump in.)
Why was it so great? Well, I don’t really know. There was just an energy, a bouyancy, to the show. Tom seemed to be in a great mood and the audience was ecstatic, responding with cheers, shouts, whistles and yells to everything the man did. And, he did no wrong.
From the moment Tony came onstage after the video, the crowd was ready to party. They cheered Tony, they cheered Tom’s entrance, they cheered the opening notes of Mama Told Me Not To Come (which usually doesn’t get that kind of reception) and were with him all the way.
In return for that response, Tom was hot. He treated the crowd to his lecture on the difference between men and women: “You see, it’s all right here,” he said as he gestured toward the appropriate spot on his body.
“It’s all in the Adam’s apple, you know. Men have them. Women don’t.”
Oh, yes, he was in a good mood. The audience was also treated to All Shook Up as a tribute to Elvis and they just couldn’t get enough.
After the show, some fans were discussing what made the evening especially outstanding. The consensus was that, sometimes, it just happens. The energy onstage and in the audience is just right and it’s a magic evening. (Maybe it was magic because it snowed that day and was, as Tom used to say in the northeast, “brass monkey weather.”) Whatever the reason for the magic, this was truly magical.
—Ellen
Photos of Tom onstage on March 13, left, and March 11, right. Thanks to the fan who emailed them to us.
March 12th, 2006 at 6:04 am
Tom makes every show so special and now more so as he interacts with the audience.Magical review.
March 12th, 2006 at 9:02 am
Thanks for the great review, Ellen. It was just like that during last Saturday night’s show! He just gets better and better!
March 13th, 2006 at 11:00 am
Engelbert played one of the Indian Casinos on the Oregon Coast Friday night. I have a friend that took her mother. She said Engelbert made several references to our TJ…his “Welsh friend.”
One remark was that his “Welsh friend” was getting knighted…”so I quess it means he can’t do ‘it’ during the day anymore”…which was not very funny.
She said Engelbert had a paunch…nothing like TJ’s six-pack abs. Engelbert kept a red hankie in his pants to wipe his brow as he sweated. As he was tucking it back in he said something like, “I only tuck one in, not 30 like my Welsh friend”.
Can we say he’s a little J-E-A-L-O-U-S !?!
Sorry I missed TJ’s Saturday night…sounds like it was a great. Have to wait until I can be back to Vegas in April.
March 13th, 2006 at 11:51 am
Enge has a million of those gags. He once said his reason for performing at the millenium celebrations was because Tom had done the previous one (1000 AD).
March 13th, 2006 at 11:58 am
Sory, I speled ‘millennium’ incorectli.
March 14th, 2006 at 8:23 am
I’d like to think that Enge thinks he’s being funny, since his was the very first face the viewer saw on the December Biography A & E did on Tom. There he was, ready for (and taking) his close-up, talking about the good ol’ days and all the good times he and Tom had. Yes, funny. That’s what I’d like to think.
—Ellen
March 14th, 2006 at 2:17 pm
You know how I always look forward to and enjoy Scoop’s reviews, so it’s nice to know that Scoop has a more than competent stand-in when not available!
I could almost feel the magic and when I closed my eyes, it was like I was back in Vegas! Thanks for the pictures and the vivid review!
March 14th, 2006 at 8:22 pm
I was at this show and it was incredible. Tom was magical and had us all spellbound. The crowd was fantastic, Tom was in a great mood, his voice was magnificent and we didn’t want the evening to end. But…..
Sunday night he was smokin!!! He moved like a man half his age, sweat flying everywhere. His voice was booming, and he was definitely holding court. Whatever he is using to get that kind of energy….I want me some. Kevin James from “King of Queens” was in the audience and it was just one more good thing happening. Mind you, this is just my perspective, but The Man was unstoppable that night.
I saw him again the next night and he was great, but of the (3) absolutely wonderful nights, Sunday was the bomb. I miss him already and can’t wait until May.
March 14th, 2006 at 8:42 pm
Isn’t the day after a Tom Jones show just like the day after Christmas? I look so forward to the show, then what a let down on the drive home. I remain in this withdrawl funk until I can get myself tickets to the next show. I have something to look forward to again, and all is well with the world.
March 15th, 2006 at 1:49 am
OK, here’s what’s really kind of embarrassing: The fans based in Las Vegas and those who can easily get here for a few days from (mostly) California say they miss him as soon as he leaves. Selfish, yes. But honest, too.
March 15th, 2006 at 7:54 am
Amen, Audrey! The last time I saw him was on March 3rd and have tickets for May. And then can’t wait for tickets to go on sale for August!