- Dec 14, 2004
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Heya folks, just got back from the show and it was awesome. Thanks to the scoundrels on evilbay, I procured front-row seats for the show and they were well worth it... Dead center of Orchestra 2 about 20 feet from the stage with a clear view of everything, and above everyone's heads in the pit. The show went really well. I heard 2 "almost" flubs, at one point someone almost came in early on a cue, but then held back... and it happened a second time, but again they pulled everything back on track in a nanosecond.
All the new material sounded great live, and my personal favorites, These Colours Don't Run, Brighter Than a Thousand Suns and The Longest Day were awesome to behold.
The stage show was pretty straight forward just balls out playing. There wasn't much theatricality during the entire AMOLAD performance and Bruce only spoke once during the new album's material.
This was a sold out show and the crowd was generally giving a good response. We Americans don't know when to sing on cue for songs like they do in other parts of the world (especially South America!) but some people caught on.
There were the typical drunken idiots just there to cause shit and trying to storm the pit and create mosh pits, but there really wasn't any bad incidents. THANK GOD no one threw anything harmful at the band... During the encores, someone threw up a still-sealed bag of popcorn from a vender selling treats to the crowd... Bruce took note of it and went out of the way to retrieve it from a stage hand so that he could tear it open and "sprinkle' popcorn over the front row area were the bag flew up from... He took particular glee in doing this and was almost mumbling the 2nd verse to 2 Minutes because he was having more fun taking revenge.
The mood of the band seemed excellent. And I have to give Janick many props for generally focusing on performing the material better and not dancing and throwing his guitar around at the expense of tightness. He seems to take this new album much more serious and it was refreshing hearing him play tighter. He's not without ability and it was a welcome change in my opinion. He did "loosen" up on the latter part of the set starting with Iron Maiden where he was flinging his guitar more than playing it, but then again, the song doesn't necessarily NEED 3 guitars to sound proper, so I gave him some slack. And the non-musicians out there seem to think his antics are "awesome" so that I'm sure quenched their Janick fixes for the show.
I was curious if they'd perhaps add an encore track being that it was the last show in North America, but they stuck to the usual setlist for the tour.
Still no programs were offered at the merch stands, so it seems like Europe will probably be getting them.
I was told that they're flying out tomorrow to Japan, so chances are, they're not doing too much partying right now, so with that, we decided to call it a night and not try to figure out their hotel!
That's all for now, maybe some pics later.
Cheers and Up the Irons!
All the new material sounded great live, and my personal favorites, These Colours Don't Run, Brighter Than a Thousand Suns and The Longest Day were awesome to behold.
The stage show was pretty straight forward just balls out playing. There wasn't much theatricality during the entire AMOLAD performance and Bruce only spoke once during the new album's material.
This was a sold out show and the crowd was generally giving a good response. We Americans don't know when to sing on cue for songs like they do in other parts of the world (especially South America!) but some people caught on.
There were the typical drunken idiots just there to cause shit and trying to storm the pit and create mosh pits, but there really wasn't any bad incidents. THANK GOD no one threw anything harmful at the band... During the encores, someone threw up a still-sealed bag of popcorn from a vender selling treats to the crowd... Bruce took note of it and went out of the way to retrieve it from a stage hand so that he could tear it open and "sprinkle' popcorn over the front row area were the bag flew up from... He took particular glee in doing this and was almost mumbling the 2nd verse to 2 Minutes because he was having more fun taking revenge.
The mood of the band seemed excellent. And I have to give Janick many props for generally focusing on performing the material better and not dancing and throwing his guitar around at the expense of tightness. He seems to take this new album much more serious and it was refreshing hearing him play tighter. He's not without ability and it was a welcome change in my opinion. He did "loosen" up on the latter part of the set starting with Iron Maiden where he was flinging his guitar more than playing it, but then again, the song doesn't necessarily NEED 3 guitars to sound proper, so I gave him some slack. And the non-musicians out there seem to think his antics are "awesome" so that I'm sure quenched their Janick fixes for the show.
I was curious if they'd perhaps add an encore track being that it was the last show in North America, but they stuck to the usual setlist for the tour.
Still no programs were offered at the merch stands, so it seems like Europe will probably be getting them.
I was told that they're flying out tomorrow to Japan, so chances are, they're not doing too much partying right now, so with that, we decided to call it a night and not try to figure out their hotel!
That's all for now, maybe some pics later.
Cheers and Up the Irons!
