Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Trans-Siberian Orchestra was awesome. It was like an amazing laser light show with rockin’ music. I left my camera at home, but Lauren bought a disposable film camera. I’m going to try and get it developed today. I’ll post the pictures as soon as I get ‘em.

There was like a little Xmas narration for the first half of the show. Andrew and I joked that it sounded like the guy was given rufees. See, he said that he was in a bar drinking when a guy came over to him and had him drink something he pulled from his coat. The narrator then proceeded to go on a “trip” with an angle that was in search for the true Xmas spirit.

They played Carol of the Bells (twice) and sang and it was wonderful. The second half was mostly classical music (as opposed to Christmas music). They played In the Hall of the Mountain King and the Flight of the Bumblebee. There was one chick with an electric (pink) violin who looked like she was doing acrobatics while she was playing. She’d bend over backwards and stuff. They all were rocking out with the metal hair and the “backup” singers all were kind of head banging. They’d stomp and whip their heads from side to side. The one lead guitarist had a Garth haircut. Party on Wayne. One more great thing about it was that all the performers were wearing tails. The women even had them, although they were incorporated into their dresses. In between the 1st and 2nd halves, Garth came out wearing a #16 Jersey. Then he got it stuck on his head.

There were lots of pyrotechnics too. We had good seats, but nothing like front row or anything, but at one point, we felt the heat from the fire on stage. It must have been crazy hot. Sometimes it was hard to look at the stage because they were blasting the lights so bright. The lights followed the music and behind them, pointed directly at the audience, were what looked like stadium lights. And they used them liberally.

In the very beginning, the two lead guitarists and I think it was the 1st chair violinist descended from the ceiling on lit platforms while they were playing. Pretty cool. There was a mini stage by us, and one of the singers was doing a pop-opera song. Not like the pop genre, but you know how in some opera songs the singers yelp random notes? Well it was like that. Then she skipped back to the stage while continuing to yelp notes. Like Lauren would do if Lauren yelped. :) At the end, Garth and the lead violinist ran down to the mini stage and they raised it up with them playing on it. Pretty cool.

There was a wicked awesome drum solo too. They guy played for so long! It was awesome. He was going so fast, it was hard to hear how many times he hit the drums. He was also faster than the strobe light. Awesome. Speaking of strobe lights, now we are all 100% certaing that none of us has any form of epilepsy. It was 2 ½ hours of blinking strobe. But it was awesome.

I’m sure I’ll post more about this. It really was flippin’ sweet!