OK, so here is my short (not) review of last nights events at the Billy Idol concert.
I must first explain, that i went as a birthday present for a friend of mine, and wasnt expecting too much of Billy Idol. But i go so much more.
The place was very very crowded, may have sold out last minute and it was an older crowd, over 30 anyway. And at 930 when the lights went out, man were they loud!! The crowd was so super into it as Billy came out and played Cradle of Love. He seemed rusty and slow during the opener but once he got going there was no stopping him! Rolling through Dancing With Myself, Hot In The City, Flesh for Fantasy, Eyes Without a Face and Sweet Sixteen, Bill got more and more silly and rowdy, totally feeding off of the way excited crowd. I saw more fist pumping last night than i did watching the Oscar De La Hoya fight the previous night!
He still has all of his orignial musicians i think too!!
Anyway, Rebel Yell closed out the main set and the encore included Mony Mony and LA Woman to end his 2 hour set.
But maybe the coolest part of the night was that DiscLive was there making and selling CDs of the show!!! Since i had heard about this i was anticipating it coming to DC/Baltimore and it did last night. $20 for a very very nicely packaged double disc live CD of the show, available moments after it was over! And the sound quality, 90% as good as a live CD you buy in a store (obviously they cant mix it down right there!) And they sold over 300 of them last night, probably more than the 10 shirts they probably sold off.
I thought so before, and now i am sure, thats the best damn thing the music industry has thought of in a while.
To sum it all up, Billy Idol is awesome and disclive is the best thing to happen to concerts since i turned 21! and i am very hungover today.