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Originally Posted by spitcodfry
The one thing I feel spoiled by after having seen many not-so-popular, smaller venue bands is the ability to have a great vantage of the band no matter where you are in the house. I thought one of the rumors related to the Seattle show had to do with them playing the Paramount, which is definetely not an arena or stadium-like venue. As a matter of fact its where they played with King Crimson on their promotional west coast tour in 2001. That would be a dream to see them in a smaller venue but I'm not getting my hopes up.
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I believe the Tshirt I have of the "Inside the Outside Tour" (the startup mini tour) had a Seattle date on it... I'd have to double check when it gets out of the laundry lol. But I was at the two Berkeley shows, and they were in a college theater, which was pretty cool. At the time it was damned exciting to see them in such an intimate venue, but when I went to subsequent shows later on in the tour... well, compared to their later shows, the Berkeley shows sucked. No video screens, no Alex Grey backdrops, and they just didn't have the musical and technical formula down right yet. Don't get me wrong, it fuckin' rocked to no end, but it's indescribable to be there when they extended Schism and Lateralus to the synched-lights and video images.
Again, I say they accomplished in the Lateralus tour to do to the eyes what they do to the ears. I want my goddamned live DVD so bad.
Ack, I'm all nostalic right now, watching a bootleg of that absolutely beautiful tour. I can't fathom how they're gonna top themselves this time... but I know they're gonna.