This is not really a review, so I hope it is okay to post here.
I just wanted to share a bit of my experience from the show last night in Tacoma.
To start off, this was my first time seeing the band. I am 29 and I grew up with my mom always playing their music. I had taken off work and purchased a ticket for the LONG ROAD tour in Seattle in 2010 when at the last minute the show was cancelled due to illness, and I wasn't able to make it to the new date, and then I was in Korea last year when the tour stopped in Seattle, so I was unable to make it then. Although it is a bit of a pain to get to Tacoma from Seattle in the late afternoon during the weekday, I knew I couldn't pass up the chance to see the tour this time.
I see A LOT of concerts, and I almost always purchase the cheapest seats so I am able to see more shows, but there was only one single seat left in the nosebleeds, for a total of about $65 with fees. I wanted to take my mom for her birthday which was this past sunday, so I ended up purchasing two tickets on STUB HUB for $45 each including fees, which was rare that it was actually under face value. I figured since there weren't any of the cheap seats left that the dome had sold all of the seats.
So, we make our way to the dome last night and as soon as our tickets are scanned, we were told that they had given us better seats. We look at our new seats and realize that they moved us to the lower center section, in the 13th row (we had originally been in the 62nd row!). Once we got in, we realized they had the entire nosebleed sections on both sides of the arena curtained off. I was pretty surprised that they would close off so many seats considering how well the band sells. We lucked out, though! A woman near us said that she had paid $200 a seat.
The only weird/annoying experience of the whole thing was right after intermission. There was this woman in front of us who was pretty loud during the entire show, singing/screeching to each song, and while it was quite annoying, I know everyone goes to concerts to have fun, and I try to just make sure I don't annoy people myself with my behavior. Anyways, one man in front of her turned around and screamed at her, "I CAME HERE TO SEE THEM SING, NOT YOU! SHUT THE **** UP." Then, there was a yelling match of obscenities, and from then on out is was this woman's mission to irritate and ruin the experience of that guys entire party by stomping and screaming the entire rest of the concert.
That aside, I was thrilled to finally be able to see the band in person and I really did enjoy the show.