Good concert last night. Just good.
The good:
-Great set list. Over half of the new album. and then the biggies from pretty much all of the other albums. I was happy, in particular, that they played I Should Have Known from the new record.
-As usual, Dave Grohl was entertaining as hell, as way Taylor Hawkins. Those guys bring as much energy to a rock show as anyone you will ever see.
-They played for three hours. For a show that long, you get your money's worth.
The bad:
-It was way too loud. That was easily one of the three loudest concerts I've ever been to. Even the opening acts were deafeningly loud. My ears are still ringing like crazy.
-Too many jams in too many songs, and always with the same format: stretch a well-written 4-minute song into a 8-minute concert one, by jamming on the main riff for extra few minutes, singing the chorus one extra time, teasing the crowd that the song is over, and then ending it with the main theme again. It was almost comical that they kept using that same formula in so many songs. It got a bit tedious after a while.
-They played for three hours. Considering many of their songs are pretty much the same type of song, they all started running together, especially given the above-mentioned jam format they kept using. Concerts that long usually only work if the band has a wide variety of types of songs that they play.
Overall, like I said, good show.