7.20.13 Adam unleashed in Paso Robles!!

My son {who lives in Oakland} and I tried to get tickets for Las Vegas this morning at precisely 10 AM from ticketmaster. All sold out in seconds!!!So disappointed-you know, that awful feeling in the pit of your stomach---but still feel quietly joyful that I have a son willing -and even excited to accompany me to see Adam.He had even purchased the airplane tickets...Oh, well--

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[News] The first two episodes of #Glee Season 5 will be a tribute to The Beatles. The third episode will be about Finn's death.


So now we can start speculation about which Beatles song(s) Adam will sing!! What is on your wishlist?

Man, I am probably going to get slammed for this--and I am a huge fan, I promise!--but this concert seemed really off to me.  I don't know if the stage was really small, if there were technical problems, if all that misty stuff in the air was something other than water vapor or what, but I didn't see the consistent energy and heard so many long moments of forgotten lyrics, off-timing, missed cues, and a general sloppiness to the whole thing.  When I say "sloppy," it's from the perspective of a teacher who's graded a LOT of student work and I mean there seemed to be a lack of the tightness, preparation, enthusiasm, and care that I would expect from the biggest overachiever in the school.  Admittedly, I've only been to two live concerts (the last one in Del Mar, which I thought was great), but I think I've watched them all online.  SLO is my hometown, I've been to many a Mid-State Fair in Paso, and I know that arena; it's the not the best for concerts.  (Just an aside, the Performing Arts Center at Cal Poly SLO would have been a great venue.) But he's played less-than-ideal venues before and he still sounded terrific.  Listening to the videos of the Paso concert, I thought there were great moments, but the concert overall actually sounded more like a rehearsal to me.  Granted, Adam's rehearsals and sound checks are better than most other artists performances and he really has set his own bar stratospherically high.  Casting no aspersions on the man or his talent or his commitment. It's just a weird feeling to watch the videos of a concert and think it looked and sounded off and below par and then read that others thought it was the "best" on any level.  If I'm the only one, I will consider getting my hearing and eyesight checked and my head examined, but I'm just curious if anyone else had any of the same impressions.  

I'm with you mszue. I had hopes of reprising LA, but I'm not feeling lucky.  Will keep trying radio contests and checking online but this is going to be a whole different story than GNT.

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