When you wait almost 20 years to see someone in concert, it's almost surreal when it actually happens. The only downside was that I couldn't take any pictures during the concert. :( I took a few with my phone but have to fix them up before sharing.
And Queensryche did not let me down!!! OMG!!! The absolute BEST concert I've been too!!! Geoff Tate still looks AMAZING!!! He had on black dress pants, a black sleeveless shirt, and vest. His arms are still GUHHH!!! And I can't even tell you how happy I am that he has his long hair back! *grins* And to see him sing live and his facial expressions as he's singing, he really gets into the songs. It's so much better hearing the songs live than on any recorded media. To feel the bass and hear the audience sing along! Just amazing!
The whole concert was a little over 2 hours. They opened with songs from Rage For Order: Neue Regel, Screaming in Digital, I Dream in Infrared, Surgical Strike, and a few others.
Then they went into American Soldier: Sliver, The Killer, A Dead Man's Words, and a few others.
Finally... the ended with Empire... and Just... GUHHH!!!! The crowd really went wild when Best I Can started. It was really incredible. They sang almost the whole album! :D The Thin Line (I went crazy when he sang "Skin tight leather provides my pleasure" hehe), Jet City Woman, Silent Lucidity (I can't even express how incredible it is to hear this live and hear EVERYONE there singing along, it was magical), Hand on Heart, One and Only, Anybody Listening?
They came back out for an encore with Empire and Take Hold of the Flame (from Warning released in 1984 and it still sounded the same).
My favorite song all night was easily from American Soldier - Home Again. It's a duet with Geoff's daughter Emily (I think she's around 11). The band was all dressed in black, she came out in a hot pink dress. It is such a sweet song and it really brought tears to my eyes. During one of the instrumental breaks, Geoff spun Emily around the stage a few times. It was really so adorable!! Geoff also brought out his wife, Susan, to recognize her for Mother's Day. At the end, the band and Emily came out to take a bow. Before they went off-stage again, Emily jumped into Geoff's arms. To see something like that from a hard rock band... it really just makes me love them all the more. :D
I need to go to work tomorrow, but I'm too hyped right now to even try going to sleep! lol I just hope I don't need to talk much because I'm hoarse! *grins*
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