Opening with 'The Sands Have Turned Purple,' Kinsella wasted no time stage-diving directly into the crowd, showing fans that he clearly intended on going out with a bang. Climbing his way back onto the stage halfway through the song, Kinsella ditched his microphone stand and wandered around the stage, kicking his legs and singing directly to the front row of eager fans, who screamed along and waved their arms. Several songs later, Kinsella picked up a prominent horn and proceeded tohold it straight up in the air while blowing into it, as the repose of theband kicked in to go 'We Are Scientists!' Crowd surfers flewoverhead while the balance of the crowd clapped along. "I think it'simportant to observe that spirit is weird," Kinsella said, acknowledgingthe reunion elephant in the room. 'Olerud'followed and had Kinsella rolling around on the level floor,somersaulting and then jumping in place, resembling a tantrum-pronechild at times. The one-two punch of 'Little League' and 'OhMessy Life' punctuated the center mark of Cap'n Jazz's set, withenthusiastic fans singing along at full power and wave their armstowards the point as Kinsella twirled his microphone stand around andextended it out into the crowd. "This is our lastshow in Michigan and this is how it over in Tokyo," Kinsella announcedas the band ripped into 'Tokyo.' Once again, the crew did a double-timeclap-along, and Kinsella read the song's spoken word intro off of each of paper and shook his tambourine furiously. 'PuddleSplashers' closed out the foremost character of their set and Kinsellacelebrated by heaving his tambourine into the crew and fallingbackwards onto the stage. Appearing back onstage a few secondslater, Kinsella announce that the lot was leaving to encounter a karaoke song.The familiar guitar riff of A-Ha's 'Claim On Me' break out of Davey vonBohlen's guitar and fans jumped and danced along to the '80sone-hit-wonder classic. 'Que Suerte!' closed out the encore, as Kinsellakicked his legs like a puppet and threw his tambourine into thecrowd once more.When it was time to release the stage, Cap'n Jazz did sowith grace, politely thanking fans for coming out, rather than playinginto their raucous stage presence. It may be their final show in Chicagofor 2010, but hopefully 2011 won't notice the end of Cap'n Jazz's second run.
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