Clayforlife....your avatar mesmerizes me! I'm a "mouth" person and Clay's absolutely sends me to places I can't describe on this thread... (post a lot, ok? )
I have talked to three other people there and we all agree there was a rather subdued vibe that night. Clay was not the giggly, silly guy he was in the Kelly-Clay concert in St. Louis. And the audience had a more serious feel to it. People loved him and gave him standing ovations and screamed and cried, but they didn't stand the whole time or dance, and the biggest applause where even the older people around me stood was for "You Were There". A conservative audience, a more mature Clay, and a shockingly fast exit.
Everyone said there were more state troopers around than usual. I counted several back by the bus that we could see the front of with our binoculars even though it was hidden behind a long trailer truck, there were at one time 8 troopers on the track behind Standing Room Only, and many more around the building.
But Clay would not have brought the little five year old girl up to sing with him if there was a danger on that stage. His bus had been broken into at MusicFest, and his bass player fired before this show Friday, so it was something else, but I don't know what.