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Now we've talked about all different aspects of performances and drawing the crowd in,
and everything like that. We got one final shot to give them a big shebang, really impress
them before they leave, and that's closing the show. When you close the show, you want
to go out making them feel like they're going to go out and conquer the world. You know?
Occasionally, if a crowd is so rowdy and they love you so much, and they keep asking you
back for encore, and encore, I've closed the show by actually doing something really quiet
and laid back so that they'd finally let me leave. You know? But most of the time, what
you want to do is you want to take them to a height that they've never, ever been before.
So, for our shows, a lot of times what we do, is we play this one piece and the piece
is, va-da-dee-oh-va-da-dee said the preacher, yeah. It starts off kind of mellow. But then
it gets into this huge, like improvisational jam session, and for the last part, I'm going
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeaow! And usually I'm jumping up and down like that, you know, right when
I'm finishing the show and I mean, everybody goes crazy. It's the biggest, wildest thing
you've ever seen in your life, right? I can't get away with doing that at the very first
piece. But I sure can get away with doing it at the end because I put in all that work
to take them on this journey. And they leave, I mean the applause gets thunderous, they
may ask us to do an encore, whatever, but when you finish that last part, you don't
wait for the applause, you might just say, thank you, bow, go off the stage. If they
want you back up there, they'll call you back out. But, it's important for you to let them
know we're done. We gave you all we have, and now, you go, and it's your turn to start
doing stuff. Man, people love that kind of close.