Review: Legendary rocker delivers thrilling concert for Bay Area fans

The edge of the regular stage simply isn’t close enough to the audience for Nick Cave.

He prefers to be right at the crowd barricade — often times hanging over it, actually — touching hands, giving the microphone to fans to hold, yelling at folks who are using their phones too much, using dozens of outstretched arms to keep him from falling to the floor and, more than anything else, demanding more passion and energy both from himself and those in front of him.

It’s a glorious thing to behold...