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lunazure wrote:What the heck were they doing outside? Geeeze you and I know how cold the desert can get at night! Thank you...........
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Graeme made a joke about requesting they be booked into 'warm' weather venues for this tour, and I think they were pretty surprised that Phoenix was so unseasonably cold. The long-term forecast had originally predicted we'd be at 100+ degrees - normal for this time of year as we'd already had some very hot days over the last few weeks. But then the estimates started radically dropping. Bad weather from surrounding areas started bringing in rain (and then wind) since Monday. By yesterday morning, Scottsdale was predicted to only hit 69, and the weather got chillier, instead of warmer, as the day progressed. Jesse drove through a short but powerful rain storm to get to my house, and there was even a chance of us getting wet last night at the show.
Justin's voice suffered under the constant onslaught of cold wind and he was the most visibly windblown of everyone. Norda pulled on a jacket and bundled up, adding a neck scarf that kept blowing in the way until she tucked in in. I didn't keep a set list, but the concert seemed shorter than usual. The show started 1/2 hour late. People in the crowd were shivering, but spirits were high and feisty as alcohol was allowed.
DreamerJessie and I came very early to the venue because we wanted to avoid fighting the Friday night rush hour traffic. Talking Stick Resort is on the opposite side of town from where I live, but the I-10 freeway was already jammed in the downtown area just after 2 pm. Still, it paid to show up early. Once again, the Muse of photography was with me and there were a lot of public areas wide left open to foot traffic. Guests were allowed in the pools until 4:30 although the show was being set up on one end of the swimming area, and we could walk through the construction zone even as staff set up rows of chairs and the pre-sound check started.
A public balcony overlooking the entire area behind the stage was even left open for most of the actual sound check. Security was pretty lax, and the kind hotel staff very helpful providing directions and info about exactly what was going on (and where). Also, once the show started, fans were allowed to come down to the front to quickly take a photo or two and return to their seats. Security did draw the line, however, when a couple of female fans tried to turn the front area into their personal dance space.
I thought I was back in the 80s again when, near the end of the show, people got up from their chairs and boldly went to the edge of the stage. Not wanting to lose my birds-eye view, I joined the throng before things got too tight. Despite the human proximity (which also helped fend off the cold), I kept a determined hand balanced stubbornly on the edge of the stage. I continued snapping photos as fast as I could with that one hand, hoping auto-focus would capture a few good moments. Then a big guy climbed half on top of me to lurch up on the stage (reminding me of a killer whale taking a bow at the end of a show at Sea World). He grabbed Justin's metal-framed set list, falling back on the concrete and dropping it, before popping back up like a feisty jackrabbit and running off, security arriving only seconds later. They fanned out to hunt him down, but I don't believe they caught him.
And that’s my color commentary on the evening…
Anyway, I shot 644 photos and, possibly due to the wind, didn't get as many clear and flattering pictures as I normally do...but I did get a lot of very unusual ones. And so I will start from the beginning with the rest of the photos and you can view the concert as it happened.
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Taranberk wrote:A public balcony overlooking the entire area behind the stage was even left open for most of the actual sound check. Security was pretty lax, and the kind hotel staff very helpful providing directions and info about exactly what was going on (and where). Also, once the show started, fans were allowed to come down to the front to quickly take a photo or two and return to their seats. Security did draw the line, however, when a couple of female fans tried to turn the front area into their personal dance space. I thought I was back in the 80s again when, near the end of the show, people got up from their chairs and boldly went to the edge of the stage. Not wanting to lose my birds-eye view, I joined the throng before things got too tight. Despite the human proximity (which also helped fend off the cold), I kept a determined hand balanced stubbornly on the edge of the stage. I continued snapping photos as fast as I could with that one hand, hoping auto-focus would capture a few good moments. Then a big guy climbed half on top of me to lurch up on the stage (reminding me of a killer whale taking a bow at the end of a show at Sea World). He grabbed Justin's metal-framed set list, falling back on the concrete and dropping it, before popping back up like a feisty jackrabbit and running off, security arriving only seconds later. They fanned out to hunt him down, but I don't believe they caught him. And that’s my color commentary on the evening… Anyway, I shot 644 photos and, possibly due to the wind, didn't get as many clear and flattering pictures as I normally do...but I did get a lot of very unusual ones. And so I will start from the beginning with the rest of the photos and you can view the concert as it happened.
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