5th show of tour. Really good venue for sound and visuals, tons of energy from crowd and the band. Sec 118 Row D, thought it was going to be fourth row and ended up being 1st right around the curve. Probably the most unobstructed view in the place and close enough to the sound board that sound was almost perfect.

Security right in front of me had been watching that fight develop for a long time before they went up there. I'm almost 100% sure that the lights going down right after they broke it up was planned and security was in contact with the band to coordinate that. Also a couple of people in previous threads have mentioned seeing cameras recording the show and I can verify that they have had a camera facing the stage. Could see the camera and it's footage on a computer screen at the soundboard, it appears to be used for setting off some of the special effects.

Probably one of the best overall performances I've ever seen out of Tool. They played as group very well though I've seen better individual performances before. Minor letdown on losing two songs though if you didn't know better it wouldn't have been disappointing. During Lateralus I kept thinking "they should be closing with this song", little surprised when they actually did. The stage was also a little narrow so we ended up with more equipment in front of the screens but not much you can do about that.

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