The show was great. I really enjoyed myself. The new songs came across amazing as well.
The one thing I really noticed was how much more relaxed and engaged James is on stage. That has to be directly related to not having a drummer that wants to be a frontman talking to the crowd constantly sitting behind him. It's like James opened up, in a good way. Mangini really is energetic, and the band fed off it. Everyone was in great form and really high energy.
I DID feel the set list was a little lacking. I totally support the band playing songs off their new record. I believe it was five cuts. But when your songs are long like that, and you play two hours, you don't really do justice to the back catalog either. Playing one song (acoustic) from Awake and one song (the encore of UAGM) from I&W, and completely ignoring FII and Black Clouds is a bit ridiculous.
Again, I get it. I fully endorse them supporting their new record. I believe in bands that do that. But in DT's case, it made the set a little unbalanced. Still totally enjoyable. But noticeably unbalanced.
Had dead center and a great view. The show and the energy really re-ignited my fandom of the band. I also felt the new songs translated great live and man, what an absolute epic Bridges in the Sky is. Hell of a way to open a show...and a tour.