I saw Maxwell at the Joe Louis Arena on Saturday with my friend Maria. Maria is a total fan girl and got us $175 seats after I told her I'll pay for a $65-$80 seat!! I don't even shell that much out for Prince! She picked up the difference (She had better).

It started over an hour late, but it was worth it.
It was a great show!
Chrisette Michele, and Robin Thicke opened, but they had to shorten their sets. Poor Chrisette only got three songs, and Robin did his hits plus a MJ tribute of Pretty Young Thing. Both were wonderful.

Maxwell came out and went right in to his new album, then some of his hits.
The man can move like Prince in his prime, and the man is S-E-X-Y!!
He apologized for being hoarse, but he sung his little heart out.

He spared no expense on tour: two large video screens, stage with a runway and trapdoors that he took full advantage of with his choregraphy. There was incense-like smoke blowing during most of the show and the arena had the feel of a small club. He really interacts with his mostly female audience, no surprise there. During one song he laid near the edge of the stage and sung while fans rubbed his face and what the could reach of his trim toned body! Maria was mad because he missed his hand twice when he worked the edge of the stage . During the Pretty Wings finale white paper feathers dropped from the ceiling like snow.

Now I'm waiting to see what Mr. Prince is going to do on his next tour. I think he going to have to step up his game after Maxwell's tour. I might even cough up $175 to see it.

I saw Maxwell at the Joe Louis Arena on Saturday with my friend Maria. Maria is a total fan girl and got us $175 seats after I told her I'll pay for a $65-$80 seat!! I don't even shell that much out for Prince! She picked up the difference (She had better).

It started over an hour late, but it was worth it.
It was a great show!
Chrisette Michele, and Robin Thicke opened they had to shorten their sets, but were great.

Maxwell came out and went right in to his new album, then some of his hits.
The man can move like Prince in his prime, and the man is S-E-X-Y!!
He apologized for being hoarse, but he sung his little heart out.

He spared no expense on tour: two large video screens, stage with a runway and trapdoors that he took full advantage of with his choregraphy. There was incense-like smoke blowing during most of the show and the arena had the feel of a small club. He really interacts with his mostly female audience, no surprise there. During one song he laid near the edge of the stage and sung while fans rubbed his face and what the could reach of his trim toned body! Maria was mad because he missed his hand twice when he worked the edge of the stage . During the Pretty Wings finale white paper feathers dropped from the ceiling like snow.

Now I'm waiting to see what Mr. Prince is going to do on his next tour. I think he going to have to step up his game after Maxwell's tour. I might even cough up $175 to see it.

I saw Maxwell at the Joe too. I was one of the people that was really pissed off about him doing an arena tour. I felt he should have done a theater tour. I really did not think he could pull it off.

Boy was I wrong. OMG...not only did he pull it off but he almost rivaled my main man Prince. I had not clue about Maxwell as a performer. Not only can he sing, but the man can dance his ass off. I thought I was going to lose it when he broke out with the splits.

As littlemissG mentioned, his voice did get hoarse, but he still sounded good, even when he had to sing some of his falsetto sung songs in his natural voice

He put on one hell of a show. Te production was top-notched...from the band, choreography, the Y shaped catwalk, the screens...everything was pure perfection.

And that man is just too damn sexy...
[Edited 9/30/09 17:33pm]

Does his voice hold up live? Even on the albums I sometimes have doubts about his singing.

ultrablue said:

Ive seen him 4 times, and his voice has been excellent 3 times and just good once. The "good" performance was at the end of a tour when as one could expect, he'd grown a bit hoarse. Though, I just read a couple of reviews of his recent show in Toronto and there were comments on him already being hoarse. I think this touring has been a bit much for him, but hope he will get his vocal strength back.

http://jam.canoe.ca/Music...6-sun.html
http://www.eyeweekly.com/...icle/73031

Does his voice hold up live? Even on the albums I sometimes have doubts about his singing.

Does his voice hold up live? Even on the albums I sometimes have doubts about his singing.

Can anyone recall the name of the song he sung when the dancing female silhouettes were displayed on the screens/backdrop?
[Edited 10/3/09 15:20pm]

PurpleCharm said:

It might have been the "Playing Possum" song. It was very slow wasn't it?

missfee said:

Yes, it was slow, but I can't recall if it was a song from the new album or from one of his older ones.

I do know that the silhouettes were visually stunning and the song went perfect with the display. At first, I thought it was actually 2 women dancing behind a curtain, then I realized that it was some kind of digital display...lol
[Edited 10/3/09 16:57pm]

Does his voice hold up live? Even on the albums I sometimes have doubts about his singing.

He's coming to Concord,CA Oct. 17th. I think I'm gonna check this out.

littlemissG said:

[Edited 9/29/09 7:08am]

littlemissG said:

Oh shucks...when he came to Richmond, VA on my birthday last week, Chrisette Michele opened (on stage aproximately 30 min), Common was next on stage and really gave a good show (on stage approximately 1 hour) and then Maxi came on and performed his spectacular sexy show (on stage approximately 2 hours). I was so surprised how Maxi's concert was very "top of the line". He did stuff that I've never seen Prince do on stage. And I do agree, Prince needs to check out Maxi's concert so he can set a new standard and step up his game Yes indeedy.