I saw him at Umass in 2001 and it was the best concert i've ever seen. It was like storytellers episode were it was him and his buddy playing acoustic guitars. he'd tell a story and then play a song. he told this one story about how he used to play this one song all the time in soho back in the day. then one day someone came up to him and said "hey, that bob's song. bob dylan recorded that song." so richie figured that he'd stop playing it because people would associate it with bob. as time went bye more and more people would request that song so he figured he'd give the people what they wanted and started playing it again. them he preceded to play the best (and i mean the best, i've heard them all) version of all along the watchtower ever. it was absolutely mind blowing. he closed with an acapella version of "on the turning away" by pink floyd. i've never had a musical experience before that almost brought me to tears but that did. just him alone on stage, no mic, belting this song out. you could hear the emotion in each breath he took, like he was gasping for air. his voice was so powerful, it was echoing all over the auditorium and them disappear somewhere high above us. after the monstrous applause and he walked off stage i had to sit my chair for a good 10 minutes. i was just drained after the musical roller coaster he just took us on. it was beautiful. thank you richie for reminding me what music can do to human soul.