Wow

The Eagles put on a fine show (he says, after three and a half hours of music).

More tomorrow.

(06-18-03 Update)

What can I say? Even though I see a bunch of Texas/regional/indie artists and love the small venues they play, sometimes it's kinda cool to see a massively sponsored show by a bigtime band. And that Eagles show last night definitely qualified. From the huge screens all over the place to the massive array of lights to the incredible sound system. But most important, those guys still sound great. Yeah, maybe it was a little too choreographed and perfect, but hey, they're the Eagles -- people aren't there to hear sloppy versions of old favorites. I was pleased to see 'em do a lot of their solo stuff as well (though to Callie's chagrin, no End of the Innocence or New York Minute).

Anyway, we definitely got our money's worth. There was no opening band. The guys went on just a little past 8 pm, and took a short break (15-20 minutes? tops) about an hour and half into it. Then they came back and played until 11:30 -- either 4 or 5 encores (I lost track).

And back to getting our money's worth -- boy, did we ever! We nabbed our tix at below face value from a ticket broker yesterday, got to the venue, and were greeted in the nosebleed section by an usher asking people if they wanted an upgrade to the tickets. So we went from very high in the upper level as far back as you can go basically (section 202) to about 2/3 of the way around Compaq Center's ring (section 125), maybe 20 rows back. I've NEVER had concert tickets upgraded. I guess maybe there were extra promotional tickets. Anyway, that was VERY cool, and the seats were quite an improvement.

In all, a very good show, with very good fans. What a blast.

(06-18-03 Update 2) The Comical gives the previous night's show a thumbs up.

[Posted at 23:44 CST on 06/17/03] [Link]