Yeah so I'll write more about the show overall in the concerts thread and just put my thoughts on Avenged here....
Looked like a great set from what I saw on youtube, did you notice any of the audio issues they were referencing? I think I heard the band openly addressed them between songs too.
so let's just get the bad news out of the way first. The sounded absolutely terrible. I'm not entirely sure they addressed it to the crowd. I know I captured some of M shadows talks, but he was just so difficult to hear the entire night even when just talking between songs. My understanding was they got to the venue super late because of delayed flights and didn't get to do a sound check. And I can attest tot he fact that the show was very much delayed. Doors opened about 30 minutes after stated and Living Colour came on 45 minutes after advertised (and hardly played a set at all, 5 songs). When I got to my seats they were still setting up all the drums for the bands. It was quite clear there was something wrong.
So the band sounded VERY low volume wise and what you could hear was very poorly mixed making it almost impossible to hear the individual players as the backing tracks were quite loud and the vocals way too low. It just sounded like shit. Everyone in my section was talking about it (and in my video you can hear my friend constantly talk about it if you listen closely).
Now that that's out of the way... the show was a lot of fun. Openers were great and the venue was sold out and very loud. I guess that's the benefit of the low sound was the crowd just sounded epic at times. The reactions to all the new songs except GOD seemed really good. People were definitely singing along to the singles and Mattel. The older stuff got huge crowd responses though. The set list was pretty good for my tastes. Of course I wish they'd played Cosmic and maybe more stuff from City of Evil, but I can't really complain. A Little Piece of Heaven was absolutely epic live. While tough to hear, I thought M Shadows was overall sounding solid, voice wise.
Their stage was really large. It went quite a bit into the GA crowd and the length was almost the entire stage so it kind of was one of the biggest flat spaces of stage for band that I can recall giving them so much room to move around, which they did. However, my side view didn't really lead to seeing the backing video screen well so I can't comment too much if they had good videos. But the lighting was hit/miss. At times it looked great on the stage but most of the night I was wishing they'd do a bit more to make it easier to see them and there was no pyro or anything really special about their stage show other than the stage itself being huge.
Good show overall for sure and I had a lot of fun. Could have been better though, but the crowd singing along loudly kind of made up for it.
Avenged Sevenfold, Falling in Reverse, Living Colour LIVE @ Madison Square Garden New York City 2023
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