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That was awesome!! Thank you!!!!! So glad to have that moment on film!
That was awesome!! Thank you!!!!! So glad to have that moment on film!
Nice photos! Hey, you weren't in Red Zone in Pasadena were you?
Great show, but Sam Boyd is an aweful venue to attempt a show the scale of an act like U2 as the infrastructure and staffing is woefully in adequate.
Loved In God's Country snippet and certainly appropriate given the venue (especially since we did a Grand Canyon tour the next day where we drove past a Joshua tree "forrest"). Also loved the Viva Las Vegas and band introductions with references to various Vegas entertainers....Bono's "and I'm Wayne Newton" is simply classic. Black Eyed Peas were suprisingly good...not my normal genra of music and I would have much preferred Snow Patrol as they were awesome in Chicago...but BEP's was perfect in my wife's opinoin.
The venue was pathetic. For a venue that knows a large portion of it's attendees will come from the strip, the lack of transportation was stunning. Cabs are just not realistic as the prices were aweful and we tried for the return trip...but there had to be a 1000 people lined up waiting for cabs that were showing up at alarming slow intervals (and we left with a couple songs to go). We did the bus in complete with the 2 transfers and going a long stretch on a bus that was basically stopping at every stop as it was attempting to accomodate local users trying to go about their every day business. We took about 1.5 hours getting in and were fully prepared to pay $50-60 to get back to the strip...but alas the lines for the cabs before the show was even over were beyond ridiculous. Last the venue was grossly understaffed from a security and staffing standpoint. We got to the stadium at 6:15 and the lines of people trying to get in were incredible. No doubt BEP were late starting to try to compensate for the fact that there were masses of people still trying to get in at 7 (any other opening act this tour not start right around 7?). The wrist band procedure was ridiculously slow as they should have double or triple the people doing that as they did.
Overall an awesome U2 show in an "intimate" setting, but as for future road trips...Vegas will be real low on the list as the logistics are simply poor.
Nah, sorry!
The venue was pathetic. For a venue that knows a large portion of it's attendees will come from the strip, the lack of transportation was stunning.
Vegas was ok, I guess
I warned people about this very thing. I saw it coming and rented a car. Still, it took forever to get out of the parking lot. They didn't seem to have a traffic plan , that's for sure.
i don't know what people were smoking if they thought cabs were going to be plentiful way out at the stadium on a friday night.
everyone was warned well ahead of time and the siena info was posted and discussed all over 6 threads
i think people were more interested with staying on the strip
-dan
i don't know what people were smoking if they thought cabs were going to be plentiful way out at the stadium on a friday night.
everyone was warned well ahead of time and the siena info was posted and discussed all over 6 threads
i think people were more interested with staying on the strip
-dan
I ran into a guy after the show back at the MGM where I stayed. He said the cab drivers were charging atrocious amounts... he said they paid $20 a head x 6 people. Thats awful. The bus was $4 round trip. The bus driver kept yelling at me...STAND BEHIND THE YELLOW LINE!