Well I just got back from NY:NY yesterday afternoon and boy are my feet tired...
Time square is amazing and i picked up some great one liners just listening to conversations as i walked around.
We arrived early and ate at this little Italian restaurant off Broadway, i had the Greek salad and it was AMAZING ! !
Mark and I hung out in the Square for a bit and then headed down to the Nokia Theater.
Ryan Waters met up with us inside and we chatted a bit about Lasers, ILDA, the NY theater unions and so on in that fashion.
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The show started out strong but I was quick to form opinions about what parts i liked and which ones i did not.
For the most part it was entertaining and kept my attention however i have some complaints so lets get them out of the way first.
The intelligent lighting was overused and it washed out the RGB aerials most of the time they were on.
The crowd scanning effect which consisted of 2 disco balls, one at each corner of the stage, was prety but hurt my eyes...
The imagery was often to literal, Mike Dun is an exceptional artist, but sometimes i want to use my imagination.
The fat beams were too fat for my taste.
ok now that im done complaining lets get to the good stuff.
I Love Pink Floyd and the sound system was great so i got to experience it. Lots of low and clear mids and highs.
The aerial fat beams were BIG and very bright.. he had an argon going through one of those Mischita gratings and that was a pretty cool effect.
there is never enough red but the reds were pretty good in the graphics and aerials.
The video projectors, which were setup to cover the entire back of the stage, were a great addition to to the lasers and did not take anything away from them (like the often too bright intelligent lighting).
The aerial purelight was amazing when the lights were out..
My favorite song was one of these days (the last song)
here is a video of that from the Chicago show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9F41ADgrxMThe reason i liked that one was because of the RGB in the beginning of the song when the rest of the lights were out. It just swings back and forth in time to the music streaking rgb bands behind it and it looked awesome in person. I have a bunch of pics to be posted later tonight.
