I much prefer the smaller venues also. I saw Brandi Carlile at the Ridgefield Playhouse back in February, and it is another small place that has pretty nice sound. Not as good as Tuscon or Ft. Pierce probably but easily acceptable. I believe it is a converted school auditorium and they did a nice job on it. She put on an excellent concert also. Gordons performance at the Sun was excellent, especially considering he wasn't long out of the sick bed. What the Sun did, was cut the arena down in size by about 1/2, they have dividers that they move in place to cut it down. It was nicer that way. I got comp tickets to the concert and saw Barry, so I got backstage with Gord and the band. I am a Wolf member at the Sun and get comp tickets to most events, I sure hope he comes back, maybe this year or next.
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Originally Posted by podunklander
What you mention about the smaller venues John, for sure and the only larger venue I heard Gordon play was at Harbor Station (I forgot about that one). The sound system was pretty good....but I prefer his concerts at the smaller venues and outdoors. Wished I could have caught Gordon's performance at the Sun though. I think, he was originally scheduled to perform at their much-smaller Cabaret theatre (I saw Margaret Cho there). Jeff Dunham performed at the Cabaret one year, and had become so popular by the next year...they had to book him at the arena. So Jeff mentioned this on stage...how he knew he made it bigtime when he was moved from the Cabaret to the Arena. Looks like Gordon did too  . I think I heard that it was @5,000 at that concert? And it was a private show (for employees and tribal members and guests?). But even the tribal chief didn't know Gordon was performing there and would have gone. That arena seats 14,000 so there would have been plenty of room for me and the chief! |