The Sound Advice Amphitheater
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From: John
The big pig is back... speaking of
which... I would have liked to have heard more from "Animals." Dark Side of the Moon was
superb in its entirety....every bit as good as the original recording, and Roger knocked us
dead with Another Brick in the Wall Part 2. So I'm glad I went... even if
I did get caught in the rain! ;o)
What a fantastic show... lots of Floyd... lots of sound... and lots of great
visuals. I particularly liked the "Wish You Were Here" set... 'Shine On You Crazy
Diamond,' 'Have A Cigar,' and 'Wish You Were Here.'
PEACE!
The lights, effects, and sound were better than his 2000 tour, and I loved the back projection depicting everything from what seemed to be Roger's boyhood bedroom... to Syd... and on to what seemed to be stars exploding.
Overall, it was the best concert experience I've ever had (except for the butthole cops
seated behind me in row 3 center).
I stayed in a hotel 5 MILES from the theater. 5 MILES! At 10 miles an hour and 5 miles from the theater, it would have taken me 30 minutes to get to the show, with 15 minutes to find my seats. I figured there would be some traffic problems, so anticipating that I would be going 10 miles per hour was just being cautious.
That didn't happen. I left my hotel at 7:15pm and didn't arrive at the Amphitheater until 9:15pm. The show started at 8pm. That means I was only able to drive approximately 2.5 miles an hour, which is about 220 feet per minute! Humans walk at about the same speed or faster.
My guest and I arrived at our seats in the Amphitheater just in time for the intermission. I paid $300 to see half the show.
If this is normal traffic flow for concerts at the Amphitheater, why weren't there any warnings from the theater, either on the tickets, on their website, at local hotels? I didn't see any attempts to move traffic any faster than the 2.5 miles per hour I traveled from my hotel to the theater.
HOW DOES SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPEN? WHERE WERE THE TRAFFIC MANAGERS? OBVIOUSLY NOT WITHIN A 5 MILE RADIUS OF THE AMPHITHEATER.
Where can I go with a complaint about this? Or will people simply say I should
have left 2 hours early at a minimum in order to get to my seats on time? We're
talking 5 miles here. There were thousands of people late to the show because of
the traffic problem and no where did I see any city personnel trying to move
traffic at a faster pace. Sure, there were police along the route, but they
weren't doing anything. None of the traffic lights were turned off with police
managing traffic at intersections to speed things up.
During the show, we were outside actually looking at the dark side of the moon up in the sky. How awesome is that, not to mention that there were airplanes overhead during the show flashing their lights - since we were in the direct flight line of the airport.
During the encore performance, it started to rain a bit, which helped cool off the warm Florida night we
were having. Everyone was having the time of their life and I don't think there was a person in the place
not singing every word of every song he played, which sounded completely awesome. His back-up singers
blew us away also! Unbelievable!
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