Originally posted by eros:
Originally posted by phillidan:
the front of the floor felt like the club, and the energy was incredible
Exactly what I was thinking. Win said (to paraphrase) "OK, I'm going to apologize to all the security people now, but everyone come on down to the front. These people need to fucking dance!"
My only criticism was that it seemed to take a few songs for the sound guys to get everything just right (though this seems to happen at almost every show). Black Mirror sounded pretty muddy. [/b]
I'm really beginning to regret keeping my seat for the whole show. I was at the front of Section J, which is just right of center in the back, right above the box seats. When everyone starting pouring down onto the floor, I gave some serious thought to heading down there, but figured that I wouldn't be able to make much headway towards the stage and would end up with a much worse view than what I had. It sounds like I would have had a better time had I hit the floor.
The show was indeed pretty amazing, though.
Neon Bible took a while to grow on me, but I came to absolutely love quite a few tracks over the past couple weeks, and hearing them live was mindblowing. The
Funeral songs were really good (especially "Neighborhood #1"), but a few of the
Neon Bible songs were just spectacular. "Intervention" may be my favorite song on the album, so I was pretty ecstatic when they launched into it during the encore. And yes, "No Cars Go" was crazy good, as was "Black Wave/Bad Vibrations" (another
Neon Bible favorite of mine).
I noticed the sound issues at the beginning as well. I'm just glad they got them mostly cleared up before "No Cars Go".
And I wish I hadn't missed The National. I'd heard good things about them and was rather looking forward to their set, and from all accounts it seems they were rather awesome.
