Sting and Annie Lennox
Jul. 21st, 2004 08:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrI bought the tickets months ago, and I'd really been looking forward to it. And the concert was great, as best as I could tell.
You see, I've never bought tickets for a concert held at the Target Center before and didn't really know what to expect. I certainly paid enough for them, but the fact is, from where we were sitting, high up above the speaker level, the sound absolutely sucked. Unless I knew the songs they were singing, I couldn't make out one word, singing or spoken. There were video screens over the stage on Sting's set, but the lighting grid blocked our view of them. And they were so far away: I would have liked to have seen the singers closer up, but we forgot to bring the binoculars.
Annie Lennox was in terrific voice and awfully fun to watch--what I could make out. (Man, I want a leather jacket like that.) It was actually a little easier to hear Sting, as he had more quiet, contemplative songs that didn't turn the arena's acoustics into mush. We certainly enjoyed it--the duet they did of Sting's song "We'll Be Together" was electrifying--but I have to admit, our enjoyment was tempered by a certain amount of frustration. Not their fault at all. Just the sound system and our seat placement. No way I could have known, really.
You see, I've never bought tickets for a concert held at the Target Center before and didn't really know what to expect. I certainly paid enough for them, but the fact is, from where we were sitting, high up above the speaker level, the sound absolutely sucked. Unless I knew the songs they were singing, I couldn't make out one word, singing or spoken. There were video screens over the stage on Sting's set, but the lighting grid blocked our view of them. And they were so far away: I would have liked to have seen the singers closer up, but we forgot to bring the binoculars.
Annie Lennox was in terrific voice and awfully fun to watch--what I could make out. (Man, I want a leather jacket like that.) It was actually a little easier to hear Sting, as he had more quiet, contemplative songs that didn't turn the arena's acoustics into mush. We certainly enjoyed it--the duet they did of Sting's song "We'll Be Together" was electrifying--but I have to admit, our enjoyment was tempered by a certain amount of frustration. Not their fault at all. Just the sound system and our seat placement. No way I could have known, really.
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Date: 2004-07-21 11:42 am (UTC)I've been to ... one? maybe two - concerts there. Mannheim Steamroller. I enjoyed them - I think Mannheim may know how to get the best out of a bad situation - but I'm very unhappy with the ticket office. Turns out the seats I bought were unavailable because of the concert setup (they'd put speakers or a sound-board or something right there), and I got bounced from the best possible cheap seats (straight on to the stage - you want that for a Mannheim Steamroller concert!) to the worst possible - almost edge on to the stage.