What was with Elgia? Sounded like Barney was playing with his thumbs, kinda like a bad middle school guitar rehearsal, was it him playing badly or was it the sound system? Then the first part of Crystal sounded like a mash of all sounds in a wadded ball... fortunately the sound system was fixed halfway through it, but it did screw it up enough that at first I didn't know what song was playing. After that, everything was awesome. Played almost every song I wanted to hear. Great time, one of my favorite concerts of all time.
Loved the show, but why was there almost no video shooting of Steve? I really wanted to see him on the screen as I couldn't see him from "C" section.
Thought the dig at Hooky was a bit unneeded (when they returned to do the encore, after a fairly long wait for an encore, Barney said, "What? Did you think we wouldn't come back, break up and not reform... is there one missing?" staring at the spot Hooky should be). I did think it was a bit of a bad coincidence as then they went into Atmosphere, and I thought, hmmm... maybe missing two?
Best part had to be meeting Barney. Couldn't believe it. We arrived earlier than expected, so me and the wife were taking our sweet time. Parking attendant noted, "Hey you might hurry one of the band members is over there." Ran over to the side service entrance driveway and sure enough it was Barney. Most people were walking on the sidewalk not even noticing him there, as he was in a corner by some bushes. There were only about 15-20 of us (have no idea how many people had seen him and left), he was going to take off, but was able to get the last picture with him... completely made my night... just wish I had brought something for him to sign, as it was completely unexpected.
By the way, did anyone elese notice that the fans were mainly either white or Asian? Hardly any Hispanics, and that's hard to do in LA...
