A few of you were into Citizen Cope so I thought I'd post that the show was freaking amazing. The venue seats 3000, and I don't think the show was actually sold out when I walked in but it looked full to me by the time he went on stage. I grabbed a beer and my girlfriend got a wine. There were a few hundred seats on the floor in front of the stage but they were already full. We found a (general admission) seat that was just to the left of center and about halfway up the seat risers.
The crowd was really a good deal younger than I expected. Mostly early 20s, which for some reason I didn't expect. A great balance of male and female fans. This show was no sausage-fest, and the crowd's overall talent level was high. Started out a little slow and soft - acoustic. Some good songs, but he was just warming up, and so was the crowd. Everyone sat for the first 3 or so songs, then he definitely started picking up the pace. There was a mic he was singing into and then a second mic at the back of the stage that he's walk back to between songs to give instructions to his sound guy (who was down below us to our right). A few songs in they started laying down some background drum tracks for him to play over and he started playing some of his faster louder songs. Right about then the crowd on the floor started standing up and the entire venue went crasy and I don't really think anyone sat down again. He only sang one song. The rest were existing album songs. The new song was decent, but it was kinda quiet and the crowd wasn't in the mood to be quiet by the time he played it. Sideways was the encore and he actually did a sorta mini second encore when he started walking away at the end of the encore and stopped and turned around to play one more song. That's probably the loudest I heard the crowd the whole time. A decent amount of crowd interaction, and he appeared to be in a very good and mellow mood. Cope said he was losing his voice a bit and kept eating spoonfulls of honey during the show. He made a comment about how "it's funny that your voice sounds the coolest right before you lose it". Then he started singing again.... It was a very good show. If he's headed to your town I definitely recommend going. -Cameron ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:274212 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
