JSS Rocks! wrote:Cool.
What's your overall review of the show?
Well I obviously can't really give a setlist or anything like that, but I had a great time. The opening act was Frankie Ballard; some younger country artist who I found out this morning will be touring with Taylor Swift in the near future. For country, it was at least tolerable, but I really think that they could have chosen a better opening act. My uncle was getting really irritated and I was too. Country just isn't my thing. He had an incredibly annoying song titled "Buncha Girls" that was just downright suicide-inducing. But, he closed with CCR's "Fortunate Son" which was kind of neat.
Bob Seger and his twelve member band put on a terrific performance. The vocal mix was atrocious for the first few songs, but the sound engineers managed to get that worked out. I was blown away by the performance of "Turn The Page" espeically since I've been getting into music with a lot of saxophone in it lately. They played from 8:45 until 11:00 but took a short intermission during the set. Bob said he was getting over a cold and doing the best he could; his vocals were great, so his efforts paid off. He had to cancel Cleveland the other night due to the cold. The stage was pretty plain, but had an interesting lighting setup.
A few cons:
The two fat hog women behind me who kept screaming "take your pants off" to anyone and everyone, and then screaming obnoxiously loudly every two seconds throughout the entire concert. Then there was the prick two seats down from me who was absolutely plastered and wouldn't stop shitting himself. Then directly in front of me, a fucking cocksucker piece of shit lit up a joint and was engulfing all of us with his obnoxious fumes, which gave me a terrible headache. I want to become a concert security guard just so I can beat the shit out of these people, because the guards at HSBC were not doing their job and beating the piss out of them like they deserved. I have never been part of a more unbearable crowd, and I've been to many, many concerts, including Ozzfest, Styx and their various touring partners seven times (Including Journey on the Main Event Tour) Kansas, Iron Maiden, Rob Zombie, Godsmack, Blue Oyster Cult, Peter Frampton, Rush, and a few others. NEVER had to deal with such an awful crowd.
But, Seger was good.
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 3:29 pm
