Hong Kong 3-18-11

[klg1992]

Well I'm new here and nobody knows me but I'm going to the Hong Kong concert later! I'm so excited! :thumbsup:

I hope to get good pictures of the concert and maybe video too but I only have 23 minutes of video available on my camera... :worried:

[GlennLover]

Welcome to The Border, klg1992! Glad to have you on board. That's wonderful that you are going to the Hong Kong show. We haven't had any Borderers who have attended any of the Asian shows so we will look forward to any info about the show. Hope you will give us a review & post any pics or videos as we all would love to see them!

Please come back & tell us a little more about yourself & how you became a fan of the Eagles.

Have a great time at the concert. I'm sure that you will:partytime::partytime::partytime:!

[Victim of Love]

Welcome and know that those of us over here in the States are green with envy that you're going. Having seen them several times, I promise you're in for quite a treat. DO come back and tell us all about it. Looking forward to many more posts from you, and again, welcome to The Border.

[Koala]

Welcome to The Border, klg1992! :D

Have fun at the concert!Looking forward when you are back and you can tell us about the concert!

[TimothyBFan]

Welcome from me also. Soak in the whole experience and enjoy!! Please come back with details and pictures. I guarantee they will be greatly appreciated by the members here!

[klg1992]

I just came back from the concert and it was awesome!

I videod pretty much the whole thing :thumbsup: (but vid quality is bad haha) but only got 3 pics because I was too busy videoing!

Setlist is pretty much the same as what they've been doing recently apparently, I'll come back with my story after I sleep.

[Koala]

Welcome Back!
Nice to hear that the concert was great! Can't wait to hear more!

[tequila girl]

Welcome klg1992 :)

Glad you had a fabulous time at the concert....can't wait to hear all about it! :thumbsup:

[Prettymaid]

Hi Kig and welcome from me too! I'm excited to hear all about your concert adventure!

[klg1992]

I guess it took a long time for me to come back but I'm not actually from Hong Kong (I'm from the Philippines), I just came here for the concert!

But before I begin with my concert story, I'd just like to tell you all about myself. I'm 16 (don't mind my user name haha) and I'm an Eagles fan (duh), but a relatively new one actually. That's all I think. :)

Anyway my parents heard that the Eagles were going to Hong Kong so he asked his friend who lives in HK to get us some tickets. When I heard this, I was really excited because the Eagles are one of my favorite bands and I never thought I'd ever see them in my life (no bands I like go to the Philippines... and they still don't).

So we took a plane to HK and I bought a really big memory card for my camera so that it could fit the whole show in it (I planned to record it). When we got to the venue I was afraid that the employees there would take my camera after searching me but thankfully, there was no such search. :thumbsup:

We made it to our seats which were right in the middle of the venue (the Hong Kong Convention Center I remember...). But then there were tall people in front of me, so I couldn't see much because of their big heads, which is why I mostly looked at the video screen for most of the action (and my camera was pointed there almost the entire time).

The concert was supposed to start at 8:00 but it actually began at 8:30, which was fine with me. They started with Seven Bridges Road and well here's the entire setlist:

Seven Bridges Road
How Long
I Don't Want To Hear Anymore
Hotel California
Peaceful Easy Feeling
I Can't Tell You Why
Witchy Woman
Lyin' Eyes
Boys Of Summer
In The City
The Long Run

No More Walks In The Wood
Waiting In The Weeds
No More Cloudy Days
Love Will Keep Us Alive
Best Of My Love
Take It To The Limit
Long Road Out Of Eden
Walk Away
One Of These Nights
Life's Been Good
Dirty Laundry
Funk #49
Heartache Tonight
Life In The Fast Lane

Take It Easy
Desperado

To be honest, I'd never listened to any of the songs from the Long Road Out Of Eden album before this concert but I'd like to say that they were all pretty good on first listen. :)

I won't do a complete rundown of the entire concert (I'm not good at that) but I'd like to point out some highlights from me, someone who hadn't seen the Eagles in his life.

Hotel California started off with a long horn intro but I guess the people knew what was coming because they started cheering before they started playing the HC intro. In The City was my favorite song of the first set because of Joe's extended solo at the end. I really didn't expect that and for the duration of the solo I had a really big smile on my face like this :mrgreen:

The band intro before Life's Been Good was pretty funny. :P

Actually I'm more of a rocker so I enjoyed the songs with guitar solos the most like Dirty Laundry and Life In The Fast Lane. :hilarious: But don't get me wrong I like all the songs!

They ended with the encore of Take It Easy and Desperado. By the way, there was a guy who shouted for Tequila Sunrise throughout the concert. I felt pretty bad for him when they left at the end of Desperado lol! I thought that they could've spared an extra song or two at the end especially since according to them it was the last concert of the Asia tour...

About the video... it's pretty much the whole concert except for the first few seconds of the intro to No More Walks In The Wood (I didn't expect it!). The sound's pretty good but the video quality is pretty bad because it's mostly just the zoomed into the big screen as far as it could go... which is not much, and there were heads in front of the camera a lot. :worried: Actually at first I wanted to record just the audio with the camera because I was afraid to be caught and thrown out (they were warning us before the concert) so the first song has almost no video (it's kinda black) but over time no one caught me so I just held the camera up higher the rest of the show. I only have three pics (during Take It Easy) because I was videoing the whole time and my dad didn't want to take pictures. :-x By the way, there were people talking and singing sometimes during the video.

So there's my experience! The story's not much but I had a really great time! I hope to see the guys again soon but I don't know if that'll be possible... I hope they come to the Philippines sometime!

[Koala]

Thanks for telling us your experience!

[tequila girl]

Sounds like you had a great time klg1992, thanks for sharing your experience with us.....Cool parents you have! :thumbsup::)
I hope you'll stick around here with us!

[klg1992]

My 4 (not 3 I just found out) photos:

They're all pretty blurry sorry, I was holding another camera in my other hand.

http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n628/fourhotel/Eagles%20at%20Hong%20Kong%202011-03-18/IMG_0167.jpg?t=1300585928

http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n628/fourhotel/Eagles%20at%20Hong%20Kong%202011-03-18/IMG_0166.jpg?t=1300585928

http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n628/fourhotel/Eagles%20at%20Hong%20Kong%202011-03-18/IMG_0165.jpg?t=1300586059

http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n628/fourhotel/Eagles%20at%20Hong%20Kong%202011-03-18/IMG_0164.jpg?t=1300586059

[Ive always been a dreamer]

Welcome from me as well, klg. Glad you found us here on The Border and thanks for sharing your concert experience with us. It is great hearing from someone who saw the band for the first time. I hope they did not disappoint and that the show was worth making the trip for. :thumbsup:

[EaglesKiwi]

Welcome klg, and thanks for sharing your experience! I'm glad you had such a great time. Your parents are fantastic!!:grooving:

[Prettymaid]

Thanks for the review and the pics!

[Stars]

Welcome from me, too, klg! I'm so glad you enjoyed the concert so much! Thanks for the review and the pics!

[TimothyBFan]

Loved reading your story, especially knowing it was your first time. I also agree---your parents get a big thumbs up from me for making the trip. Thanks for sharing and I also hope you stick around.

[Annabel]

Welcome from me too :bye: and great to hear about your concert experience. 8)

I'm off to see the Eagles with TG at the start of July and can't wait. :yay:

[GlennLover]

Thank you klg!

[sodascouts]

Welcome klg! Glad you enjoyed the show and thank you so much for sharing with us!

[tequila girl]

Welcome from me too :bye: and great to hear about your concert experience. 8)

I'm off to see the Eagles with TG at the start of July and can't wait. :yay:

Yeah, I'll be Rockin' out with Melanie on 1st July! :smokin::band:
Get prepared to be embarrased Mel! :headbang: :spin: :headbang: :hilarious: :hilarious:

[Annabel]

:thumbsup: Back at ya Carole. It's Hannah I think I'll feel sorry for. She'll be disowning us. :hilarious:

[Glennsallnighter]

Welcome from me too KLG. Thanks for the lovely review and the pictures. I see they are continuing to go casual!

[Troubadour]

Welcome, and thanks for the write-up!

[Brooke]

klg, I finally got time to read your review! Welcome to The Border and thanks so much for sharing your concert with us. We love getting details from real fans! They are so much more interesting! And what cool parents you have! They know good music! :nod:

Come back and 'talk' with us soon, ya hear?!

[tbs fanatic]

Welcome klg, glad to hear you had such a fun time. Thanks for the review.

[StephUK]

A few photos from the show. Seems like they have the 'photo police' over there too!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/philshui/sets/72157626323258508/with/5548705297/

[Freypower]

The first shot says 'no camera & video RECORDING'; not 'no photographs'.

[tequila girl]

Thanks for finding those Steph!......Funnily enough I was only thinking earlier today - we've had hardley any pics from Asia :headscratch:

[tequila girl]

The first shot says 'no camera & video RECORDING'; not 'no photographs'.
FP, surely if you want to be pedantic about it......using a camera to take a photograph is RECORDING the event?? :headscratch:

[Freypower]

To me 'recording' means taking video. This can be done on modern cameras. If they were not allowing photography they would have said 'no photographs'. If I am wrong and they have changed their policy since I saw them I am relieved I saw them when I did.

[tequila girl]

You're probably right .....but to me - taking the sign literally it says "no recording" ie, 'capturing an image' on camera or video.........what is a photograph?

[StephUK]

Oops - sorry I mentioned it in the first place.

Policy does seem to vary from place to place(even when they have signs/flyers on seats).

I've been asked to put my camera away at 2 shows during LROOE tour - Dallas in 2008(although in 2010 they let us take photos at the same venue) and Birmingham, England in 2009. All other shows I've been to have allowed photos, but I was told to remove my telephoto lens attachment in Reno 2010.
Also, at the O2 arena where they did 6 shows in 2008, the night I went photos were allowed, but I've been told that on the last of the 6 nights, security were telling people to stop taking photos.:headscratch:
It's a funny ol' world!

I've never risked taking a video camera into a show as I don't want to get thrown out - they are definitely a no-go.

[sodascouts]

Thanks for finding the photos, Steph! There's some really cool-looking ones there.