As is generally the case when you have kids, we left late enough to miss the first opening band and arrived just in time to catch the second. This, as it turns out, was unfortunate. I just don't get the allure of listening to guitars driven to near complete distortion and a lead "singer" who seems to be more at ease screaming all the lyrics. Maybe I'm old. Well, I am old, but I'm still here to see MCR.
Since I am old and I don't really care much for today's scream-band mentality, I'm not much of an MCR fan when it comes to the stuff prior to The Black Parade.
My wife had mentioned that she hoped they weren't going to ignore Black Parade and play all old stuff. I responded with "I bet they play at least 3/4 of The Black Parade". I was close. They played all but two songs and the "hidden" last track. I have to admit though, I enjoyed the older stuff much more than I did last time we saw them about eleven months ago. I was surprised that they played a set that lasted about 1:45. Now, I'm not saying that's great when you consider bands like Grateful Dead and Rush that would regularly push well past the two hour mark for every show. Compared to the wimpy 1h15m shows we seem to get from most bands these days, though, I'll take it.
Time to go get more coffee... Enjoy one of the few decent pictures I got with my cell's crappy digital camera.
