sometimes...is an understatement.
hey setrataeso...were you in on that water bottle fight? It looked histerical from a distance..like it was snowing plastic water bottle.....we'd all cringe when we'd spy the occasional FULL one in flight.
Nah. I was up close for DT, but Space Invader and I moved farther back for Maiden, cuz we were getting pretty uncomfortable in the crowd, and my back was killing me.
I could see the water bottle fight from a distance. My buddy Ouda got hit in the head with a full one.
No he didn't. He would have, but I caught it at the last second and got a round of applause from the people around me haha. Some other guy right beside got pegged HARD though.
In regards to the sticks, it was hilarious. JP came up to MP during JR's solo in Home was egging him on to throw them as high as he could. MP didn't have much luck catching them, though. Later on, MP motioned to one of his techs offstage, threw the stick to him, and got him to throw it back so that he could catch it and keep playing. He didn't make that one either, though.
I'd also like to point out that I've been to two Dream Theater shows, and Mike Portnoy referred to both of them as the best of the tour (last year in Montreal he told the crowd, this year in Ottawa he said it on Twitter). And for those wondering, the Ottawa Citizen newspaper was estimating 30,000 people at the concert.