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Huh, they Glenn and Jeff did a similar schtick at the beginning of the encore in Osaka. He whispers something to Jeff, Jeff asks if he wants to say something, and then he tells the audience that Glenn just wanted to say "sorry". So that was a pre-planned bit?

8 March 2024, Osaka, Japan

As mentioned, the band moved pretty quickly from song to song. Jeff's comments about communicating through music came after an American-sounding guy in the crowd yelled three times demanding that Jeff "say something". Jeff responded with exasperated looks the first few times (my wife said she thought Jeff flipped him off, but I didn't notice that).  Then, after a song, he said that "an American in the crowd is trying to make this all about himself, as Americans often do." (I'm American too, so it was embarrassing but I had to agree). It was quite the put-down, we didn't hear from the American guy after that. Then he talked about wanting to avoid talking since he didn't speak the language, and preferred to speak through music. He also said a little later that he has never had a bad crowd in Japan. The crowd was very positive and happy. 

During California Stars in the encore, he brought out Finom, the opening band, including Spencer on drums. The two women from Fincom sang backup and a verse, and Spencer shook the shaker for half the song, then he and Glenn did a carefully choreographed switching of seats midway, so he could play the drums for the second half. They all stayed on stage for Spiders, the final song, and participated in the audience a cappella  sing-along of the power chords in the second half. Jeff gave Spencer a sweet hug on the way out after the song.

All beautiful.