I'll post pictures sometime tomorrow (and we've got everything I'm going to describe) and I saw one set of vids and it looked great so you'll have that to look forward to.

PRE-PEFORMANCE

Just before the show one of the DJ's from KDND tells us the order of performances. Click Five, Katharine McPhee, Gym Class Heroes, Hilary Duff and Ne-Yo. OK, Kat's going second. Sounds fine to me.

Click Five sings five songs...I'm not familiar with them but it was pretty good but I just wanted them to get done so I could see Katharine. And 20 minutes later they were done and then a ridiculously long 15-20 minutes in between her comes the DJ to introduce Katharine.

He asks the crowd, "How many of you think Katharine McPhee should have beat Taylor Hicks last year?" Crowd cheers pretty loudly. And then he mentioned something about how "we're close to bringing Katharine on stage and how it's really a good thing to be close to Katharine." (haha, funny guy).

So I can see Kat's dancers ready to come on stage (I'm about five rows back a little to the right side of the stage). And then I see Katharine. She's wearing jeans, a black tank top and a jean jacket (it's 90 degrees in Sacramento...why jeans?). Anyway, she looks great regardless of hiding her legs on a hot day behind the jeans.

PERFORMANCE

Love Story -- No Feelin' Good intro tonight, she sings the alternate verse and sounds great. And she does sing "frieend" no, actually she said "friends" and looked at her dancers when she said it. Before the song she mentions that LS is her new single and does the whole, "How you doing Sacramento?" thing.

Dangerous -- This was fun because she walked out onto the little ledge they had on both sides of the stage and she chose the side I was nearest to. So she's about 5-10 feet away and...well, I enjoyed the view. That's all I have to say. And the little dance sequence is great on the videos but when she's right in front of you it's just...not sure how to describe it.

Over It -- OK, this is when Kat started really being talkative with the crowd (more than I've seen on the vids from elsewhere). She does her thing explaining how this is probably the only song you know if you listen to the radio station and don't have her CD. And then here comes the Kevin story. But she tweaks it. She says, "And there's Kevin" (points to someone)..."He's a cameraman now!" She said it like being a cameraman is a terrible thing or something (I don't think she meant it that way just having fun) and then she laughs and says "That's not really him." She continues with how mean Kevin was and how she's finally "sooooo over it" (full Valley Girl inflection).

As for her singing...I was really impressed. She seems to have made the song her own. She's stopped trying to copy the recorded version's ultra high-pitched parts and she just sings it the best way she can. Too bad they didn't do the recorded version they way she sang it here.

Mary Jane -- More crowd interaction. I think Paulette gets her "brallad, I mean ballad" chair out and Kat says, "She's hot, isn't she?" And I say, "Not as hot as you!" She didn't hear me. And then while she's doing her explanation of Mary Jane, a guy to the left of me says, "I LOVE YOUR HAIR!" Kat goes, "What?" He says it again, "I LOVE YOUR HAIR!" Kat hears him this time and tosses her hair, "Well, it's Sexy Hair!" I don't think most people got the joke but I thought it was funny.

Sings MJ beautifully, crowd really loves it (crowd in general was really good to her...she even mentioned it when she said something (I don't remember) and then she said, "Thank you, not everyone always cheers when I do that" (thoughts of DC clearly in her head).

Open Toes -- Before Open Toes she mentions how great it is to be in California and how "us California kids need to stick together!" She's in a really great mood, super talkative, very energetic. Then she does her usual "silly song for girls and asks who's got their open toes on tonight." She sang it really well. Better than I think I've seen on the other vids. She laughed during the bridge but before the "Put 'em on" part she went "Come on Dorian, pump this up for me!"

And that was it. She thanks the crowd for being really great and off she goes.

POST-PERFORMANCE

So there's a pretty long break between Kat and Gym Class Heroes coming on so we're looking at all the pictures taken and just talking about how great Katharine was. Then...here she comes walking through the crowd. She takes a seat in a fenced off area in between the main baseball seating area and where the standing-room seats were on the infield in front of the stage. She's carrying Nena with her, Nick is following closely behind. So is Dorian and her backup dancers. I think she wanted to watch some of the concert from there but it becomes obviously that isn't going to work. A swarm of people surround her to take pictures and ask for autographs. She signs a few things and then moves to the River Cats dugout to watch some of the show.

While in the dugout she is given a green snowcone to cool off with. People are still taking crazy amount of pictures of her. She shares the snowcone with Nick and Nena is trying to get some from herself while all of this is going on (we've got pictures of this).

Oh, a note on Nick. He was totally clean-shaven. I don't remember ever seeing him look like that. He didn't look nearly as creepy without facial hair. And he looked a little younger too!

So Gym Class Heroes sings one song and I'm sure someone decided that if she wanted to see the show the best thing to do would be to move into a luxury suite where they were far removed from everyone. My one thought about this...all of this was great to see. If nobody cared about her, then she'd be in trouble.

So they move up to luxury suite #27 (details!) along the third-base line of the baseball field. We can see Kat, Nick, Dorian, the backup dancers and two other people I don't recognize sitting together. Kat & Nick (with Nena) in the front row, everyone else a row behind them.

Alright, so Kat's up there and she still can't get away from fans. She's got a group of teenage (or slightly younger) girls waving to her non-stop from down below. I think she waved to them about five different times until they started to go away.

But the fun part about watching her up there was during Hilary Duff's set, Kat starts doing some dance moves for the group up there. All I could think of was she was practicing the choreography for the Love Story video because it was the same move over and over just she'd tweak it a little. Trying to figure out what works best for her I guess.

Anyway, so they stick around for about half of Hilary Duff and then get up and head out...not sure if they were flying to Kansas City tonight or on Sunday morning.

AFTER THE SHOW

One quick thing. Hilary Duff just sucks. Moving along...the only good thing I have to say is that I wish Kat would have switched outfits with Hilary. Hilary had on something that Kat would make every man within 10 miles pass out over. Somewhat similar to her Seattle/San Antonio dress just not quite as covered. Hilary does not have the legs to pull it off. Or the upper half either.

OK, so after the show we meet up with Co. I'm fast forwarding a little to the funny part. So we're outside of the stadium (the show isn't over...Ne-Yo still has to perform but we decide to leave since Kat has left the building. So we see this guy that looks like he might be somebody and he's got a few girls around him (total groupies). Turns out he's a backup singer/flag waver for Gym Class Heroes named DeJesus (I hope I spelled that right). Well, Co wasn't able to give Katharine this gift she had so...once we figure out who the guy is (with the help of Co's 20-year old daughter Sarah) she has the brilliant idea to give this guy the gift so he could give it to Katharine since they were all headed for Kansas City on Sunday evening.

He takes the package and says he's going to give it to Katharine. We had to show him a picture of Kat because he didn't know who she was. Whether or not he does it...I guess we'll find out in the next day or two.

I think that covers everything. Like I said pictures sometime tomorrow and I know we've got at least two sets of videos for everyone to see.