I'm sorry, but I don't know why GDW thinks the "crowd sucked"?
I know where you were standing. I was in a corporate box, and could see the whole venue without the stage lights in my eyes, but only with my ever present concert binoculars. This show is very dark, as in unlit, and without them, I wouldn't even have been able to see any people.
I saw Linds get SEVERAL standing O's...yes, people played his guitar at both sides of the stage. People tended to sit during acoustic songs, but during the classics and the rockers (Stand Back, GYOW,GDW,etc), they were on their feet all the way back to the sound board and up to the rafters. You may have only been able to see the first few rows behind you, cher, but they were there.
People were dancing in the aisles up in the balconies, and in the first level oval area, and the folks sitting were chair dancing, head bobbing, swaying, clapping,yelling.
I didn't see dead and sucked. I saw middle aged, well mannered people who apparently can hold their liquor better than many. Think about Reno. Think all the reviews in here where someone has complained about "some drunk chick all pushing in my way" and the whole sit /stand controversy where people are invariably ticking SOMEBODY off one way or another. They let you have the stage edge to stand up. The people down front sat down so others could see. Where's the beef? You want obnoxious? Come back to town whenever Metallica or Korn is here.
BTW, they did in fact have staff checking purses, etc. I don't know why your party didn't get checked?
On a lighter note...did any of you visiting Ledgies get to go do anything post concert? The casinos, riverfront clubs, or anything?
And yes, that song is Dreams. That reporter is not the usual person who does the reviews. I've never even HEARD of her. She will get hers, though. The Times reviews itself and gently chastises it's reporters for mistakes in a column written by the editor. She will be mentioned by name, that reporter; and the correct song title WILL be pointed out to her.
