I know I am late with this, but here are some words about Thresholds show at the Loreley!
Recently I had gotten into the band a little and I have never seen them live before. I really like the voice of Mac, and have heard tons of good stuff about Damian, so it was interesting to see how the "new old" guy was holding up. In my opinion, he's a VERY charismatic frontman and a great singer. And dare I say, he's a very good looking guy, too. Glynn did a very good job communicating with the crowd and it felt like he had been their frontman for decades.
The band had some major sound difficulties though in the beginning. It seemed like the bass wasn't working at all, and vocals were barely audible, so were the keys. Only things audible were the guitar and the drums. The crew needed about two/three songs to figure the whole thing out.. but after the initial struggle, the sound was pretty good, especially for a (let me call it) co-co-headliner.
I'd like to say some words about Johanne James since I have read overwhelming words about him in some other places in the internet. I don't want to talk bad about him, but I certainly don't understand the opinion that he was the best drummer of the whole festival when guys like Nick D'Virgilio and Marco Minnemann were around. James played a very solid, good set, but in my personal opinion he lacked sensitivity, some nuances; or to say it the other way round, his playing is not very detailed. That is not saying he is a bad drummer, but he could have concentrated a little more on, say, a few ghost notes or so, than on doing the same rotating-stick-trick all over again
BUT it was an awesome set!