Greatest Fucking Show...

sounds like it was a great show!! wish I could have been there :(---my plans fell through. hope my friends that went had a great time!! I would have loved to hear Long Road and Baba O'Riley live!!

PS: Cincinnati, I'm not impressed with your city at all. At midnight there was NOTHING to eat anywhere unless you got your car outta parking and drove 10 minutes.

All I can say is.....HOLY SHIT!! I'm so drained from rocking my ass off last night.

PhilJam wrote:

Tonight in Cincy... all I can say is WOW!!! My 7th PJ show over the last 12 plus years and I am absolutely floored by how phenomenal that show was... as my ears are still ringing.

The show was great and all, but I'm surprised you rank it higher than Cleveland 06. IMO, Cleveland was a WAY better show. Better setlist, better venue, better sound. The crowd was probably better in Cincy, though. The crowd was unreal last night.

Agreed on the venue. US Bank Arena is very small and the sound just seems contained a bit more. I like them better in outdoor venues, but I am glad they didn't go back to Riverbend (at least we didn't have to deal with the let down of being flooded out again.)

It was a great show--we started at the pre-concert party and rocked there and then rocked at the concert. I am still having a hard time talking!

Highlights for me: My brother calling that they would open with "Long Road," the disco ball (a welcome return), "RVM," and "Inside Job."

I could go on and on, actually...they are just OUTSTANDING!

PhilJam wrote:

Finally a show where it appeared everybody there knew the boys and their tunes very well. After these recent shows where by my observation about 1/2 the people are sitting 1/2 the time and don't know but 1 or 2 songs... it was a breath of fresh air to be completely surrounded from top to bottom by fellow KNOWLEDGABLE PJ fans... and you could tell that Eddie and the band knew what type of crowd they had on this night.

AMEN!

I was in MSG in 2003, and nearly everyone in the section we were in was sitting THE WHOLE TIME (except my husband and I), and they kept yelling "Play something from TEN...play JEREMY!" I was sooooo ticked off that they didn't appreciate all of their stuff. I didn't hear that once last night. My only worry was the drunk kid behind me who passed out on his chair...and missed the whole show. Poor kid...doesn't know what he missed. That was on hell of a night.

Phil-where in KY? Did you go to the pre-concert party?

greenamp wrote:

PS: Cincinnati, I'm not impressed with your city at all. At midnight there was NOTHING to eat anywhere unless you got your car outta parking and drove 10 minutes.

Wow. You had to drive a whole ten minutes. How horrible. I just jumped on the barge, went back to the party and was able to eat there.

I've been to more concerts than I can remember and last night the crowd was fing amazing. As I said in another thread, there was one tiny point where the senior ten club members sat down before the first encore but that was it. My ears are still ringing from the music and the crowd. I don't think the setlist was bad, I think it was very interesting and I'm glad the show didn't end with Ledbetter. As much as I love the song, I thought ending it with something different was cool.

Now on my other subject... The Cincinnati police need to remove the corncobs from their assholes. WTF is up with those guys. It was like the freaking SS. I went to the CCFA party in Newport (which I loved and met many wonderful people). I had 1/2 beer because my stomach can't really handle alcohol that well. We hopped on the beer barge and headed to the show. They gave you one free beer on the boat. I ended up drinking about 3/4 of it before we landed on the other side. We walked up to the venue which is right next to the boat ramp and headed up the stairs. A couple from Canada had asked if I would take their picture because it was beautiful yesterday and I was happy to hand my beer to my husband while I took their picture. As soon as the camera came up to my eyes I heard this pissed off voice saying "That wasn't very nice of you to set him up like that for a $100 fine!". I looked up and these three nazi cops in white uniforms took some very quick and scary strides towards me. I was frozen because these were rather large, scary looking guys and I'm 5'3". The main asshole grabbed the beer out of my husbands hand, tossed the beer out in a very threatening manner and informed us that "THIS IS NOT LAS VEGAS". WTF? There were people carrying beers all around us and not a word was said because a few people had carried their beers up from the dock. No signs were posted and the boat employees hadn't told us to dispose of our beers before we got off the boat. It's funny that it's ok for you to buy beer and drink it at the venue but you can't walk from the boat dock to the venue. Stupid laws. It was so aggressive and fast that I didn't even know what happened until it was over. I was not drunk nor was my husband. We were taking a picture for Christs sake and they acted like I was scoring drugs on a street corner. I witnessed various assholish cops roughing people up in the venue as well. Glad I don't live up there. No wonder the african american community is so scared of them. I sure was. They seem to be wound a tad bit too tight..... besides that and some guy being wasted from the beginning of the show and then throwing up everywhere after the second song, the show was amazing!!! Loved it!