Awesome show in Red Bank last night, I thought they were on fire. I was in the last row, bought a super cheap ticket, but I could see everything just fine since the Count Basie Theater is pretty small overall, it was sold out and holds about 1.6k. I felt the first set flew by and PBD was probably the highlight of it. I thought the energy went up a bit for SFAM and everyone was really enjoying it. I saw next to an older guy and his song (probably close to my age) and they were having a blast. I would have rathered a different encore, but you can tell why the band plays it. The place erupted for it and people in the back finally got out of their seats. It's interesting, I've been to a lot of DT shows and sometimes the ushers are annoying and sometimes they are not. This show was half and half. The ushers allowed people to use their phones or cameras for the first song then said "now you are not allowed to take video anymore" but then allowed again for the second set. It's funny though how as the guy was just talking to me about my camera one person fell down the stairs to my right and another group was arguing about who's sitting in the wrong seats
The usher was nice and no issues, but just funny how they handled this show. The floor stood, the balcony sat, except for me and the rest of us in the back row. There was room for me to rock out up there so I thoroughly enjoyed having a cheap seat in the back. I wasn't even that far and had clear visuals of the band the entire time plus the sound was really good, I went down to get a beer during the set and noticed the sound was much worse mid theater and the band sounded super load, but up top the sound was much cleaner. Also met up with axeman and his cousin for a beer before the show
Anyway, since the ushers were cool the second set, I got a full song. I captured plenty of other highlights, I'm planning on going again tomorrow and want to get more, but for now:
Dream Theater - Through My Words / Fatal Tragedy LIVE @ Count Basie Theatre Red Bank NJ 4/10/19