More Vote for Change pictures: Stipe, Springsteen, Dixie Chicks, James Taylor

More (and slightly cleaned up) pictures from the Vote for Change Finale last night in Washington, D.C.


R.E.M.'s set was stirring. And Michael Stipe was great. This is the shirt he wore for the finale's finale. He showed it to everyone.


The crowd was very enthusiastic about the Dixie Chicks, who sang Truth Number 2 as their finale. (You don't like the sound of the truth/Coming from my mouth/You say that I lack the proof/Well baby that might be so/I might get to the end of my life/Find out everyone was lying/I don't think that I'm afraid anymore say that I would rather die trying.) Um, the other guy there was That Lonesome Man, JT. James Taylor wasn't lonely, and his collaboration with the Dixie Chicks on Sweet Baby James was one of the best of the night.


Michael Stipe and Bruce Springsteen did "Because the Night" together. They were a blur on stage(and in this photo...but it captures Michael's hyperkinetic dancing and Bruce's frantic guitar riff.)


Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce!


A long shot of the finale. It did have a crazy moment...there were guys in a Richard Nixon mask and a gorilla mask up on stage. I didn't get that part. I did get Peace, Love and Understanding.