by Jeremy

Great show overall!
First off, I wanted to say that I felt bad for Kanye opening the show. He was trying to perform rap for what could easily be described as a 'non-rap' crowd. They also had some trouble getting all of the bass notes for his songs to sound correctly on the system they had in the Qwest center, and at times it muddled up his vocals. But he tried hard, and it was fun to watch the crazy violinist dancing around behind him like a maniac.

At the start of U2, I was a bit disappointed with Bono's voice. It sounded like he was sick, or had begun losing his voice or something. At the start of the 2nd or 3rd song, he tried to start singing, then kind of grimaced, and looked over at the Edge. Then he started again, and moved to stage right and took a drink of water, and it seemed a bit better. However, as the concert went on, his voice got better and better - I was amazed at how good he sounded singing opera! So I'm not sure if this was due to voice strain over such a long tour, or if it was just a lack of proper warm-up.

I had been hoping that they would play 'New Years Day', which they didn't, but we got to hear Mysterious ways instead, which sounded really great!

At times the drums sounded muddy - perhaps it was where I was sitting (in the nosebleed section) - I think it was only when using the tamborine, but I'm not sure what was going on.

It was a great concert - hard to justify the cost of tickets ($51 for upperdeck?) - but certainly memorable and wonderful experience.

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