WOW
What. A. Show.
So yeah. We saw that there were 2 front row center section seats available for only 65 bucks plus fees an hour before the show. On the aisle of the Myung side. So we grabbed them and took the loss on the second-row side section seats we had. Gave those to a father and son who we saw in the back of the floor. Win-win!
Seats could not have been better. My first front row concert.
Anyways, the show itself:
It was unreal. The whole band was seriously perfect. Including LaBrie, btw. He was absolutely fantastic. He sounded dang near perfect to me. Also, at one point I smiled at LaBrie and I swear he smiled back at me.
At one point LaBrie's mic fell and he missed a line, during 6:00 I believe, but he, of course, laughed it off and made it funny.
The setlist was absolutely perfect and the flow was fantastic.
Also, this was only my 2nd time seeing DT (the first time was on the last tour) so it was my first time seeing all of these songs live.
The Alien was a great way to kick it off and was flawless.
6:00 was really fun to see. Myung rocked the bass stuff towards the beginning, but he rocks the bass stuff in every song, lol.
Awaken The Master was amazing, and the 8 string is fantastic in person. I felt that low string (assuming it's a low string on the 8 string?) deep into my chest. Really a beautiful song live, and one of my favorites from the new album.
Endless Sacrifice was so cool, especially when the keytar came out and Jordan was right in front of me! Myung, Jordan, and Petrucci all lined up right in front of me doing their thing was absolutely unreal.
Bridges In The Sky was, of course, fantastic. One of my favorites from ADTOE and it did not disappoint.
Invisible Monster was great live. I love this song and expected it to rock live. It did not disappoint at all and it flowed nicely into...
About To Crash. Fantastic live. Beautiful is an understatement. Really loved seeing this one, as it's one of my favorites from SDOIT.
Ministry was out of this world fantastic. Never expected to have the chance to see this one live, and it was even better than I expected. Petrucci's solo at the end might be my favorite Petrucci solo of all time, perhaps my favorite guitar solo of all time. Really beautiful song.
View was great live. Really fun to watch this one unfold live. Felt like a great set closer.
Tuscany was the perfect encore. It was so fun singing along during this one. Just fantastic.
What a show. Hoping to see them again very soon. Might try to hit another show on this leg, but I likely can't. Either way, they said they're gonna tour for a year and a half and said they plan to "come back here" which I took to mean Cincinnati. They said the turnout was really good too, but they could say this everywhere for all I know. Fingers crossed they really do return to Cincinnati within the year and a half, or at least come somewhere really close.
Topic: Cincinnati 2/16/22 (Read 1714 times)
