Topic: 2009.04.17 Las Vegas, NV - Pearl Concert Theater at The Palms (USA) (Read 12943 times)

j · « **Reply #120 on:** April 20, 2009, 04:01:51 AM »

Just listened to the end of A Forest, and Robert says "Q" and that is it. Nothing like the usual show ending, though.

I just uploaded some pics to the gallery. Also, it was nice meeting up with you again, crowbi_wan, and it was extremely nice to finally meet jb !

sullen · « **Reply #121 on:** April 20, 2009, 12:26:13 PM »

i just slept for 24hrs

thank you las vegas

Trust... · « **Reply #122 on:** April 20, 2009, 01:09:23 PM »

Quote from: sullen on April 20, 2009, 12:26:13 PM

i just slept for 24hrs

24h?

Trust... · « **Reply #123 on:** April 20, 2009, 01:10:15 PM »

Quote from: j on April 20, 2009, 04:01:51 AM

I just uploaded some pics to the gallery.

Thanks J

disintegration · « **Reply #124 on:** April 20, 2009, 01:34:55 PM »

Thanks for the photos, J!

sullen · « **Reply #125 on:** April 20, 2009, 01:50:35 PM »

Quote from: Trust... on April 20, 2009, 01:09:23 PM

Quote from: sullen on April 20, 2009, 12:26:13 PM
i just slept for 24hrs

24h?

about 18 or so.
think i went to sleep at like noon yesterday and woke up at 6AMish!
was a long weekend!!!

i was up on the rail, and the sound was terrible.
was it good back by the board?

Trust... · « **Reply #126 on:** April 20, 2009, 02:13:55 PM »

Quote from: sullen on April 20, 2009, 01:50:35 PM

i was up on the rail, and the sound was terrible.

Yeah that's what you have when you'r up on the rail

But still MY favorite place for a Cure-gig !

sullen · « **Reply #127 on:** April 20, 2009, 02:33:23 PM »

i agree, it is the best, no other place id rather be

but of all the times on the rail and the few ive had front row seated
this was the absolute worst sound ive heard up there

j · « **Reply #128 on:** April 20, 2009, 03:57:33 PM »

I know what you're saying, Sullen. I slept for 12 hours Saturday night into Sunday, then another 10 last night. I usually get about 6 hours if I'm lucky!

I had high hopes for the sound, but wasn't impressed. I started out centered directly on Roberts microphone stand, about 10 feet in front of the board. By the end of the show (out of necessity because I am 5'10" and I swear everyone else was 6'7"!) i was about DFC on the floor.

Their regular board op was not with them and they had guys on the board that I did not recognize. Not sure if that had anything to do with it or not.

sullen · « **Reply #129 on:** April 20, 2009, 05:59:12 PM »

yeah, damn i thought it might have just been where i was.

great weekend, but such a disappointment that show was.

Plainsong · « **Reply #130 on:** April 21, 2009, 05:38:51 AM »

I'm not sure if this has even made COF yet, but it was confirmed by a couple of fans who ran into the band after the Palms show that Robert hurt his hand when his guitar string snapped during The Kiss. It was very swollen after the show that night and was still visibly puffy last night at Coachella and two of his fingers were bandaged. He was rubbing his arm when the band left the stage after the main set. No word on what exactly the injury was (a cut? a broken finger? who knows?) but he definitely was in some pain...but he kept playing through it like a pro!! Obviously on Friday if he'd just hurt it he couldn't keep going so maybe it's on the mend by now. Anyway, that's why the show stopped a little early in Vegas and there wasn't any big drama, just one of those fluky injuries.
It was still a fantastic show and it was so good to see the Curefans there--especially to meet Japanesebaby who came from so far away!! I'm still so surprised we saw you!

erikd37 · « **Reply #131 on:** April 21, 2009, 05:02:02 PM »

Quote from: j on April 18, 2009, 10:09:46 AM

WTF? Apparently Simon got pissed off that he fucked up playing on A Forest and they never came back out for the last 2 encores. They were supposed to play the old school encore, then Faith. Thanks Simon!

Yes, he threw his bass down and then chucked his pick over his should liek he didn't care. He was very chilled throughout the whole show. Porl was a bit of a tiger though. He did look a little creepy with his eye make-up, tatoos, and goth jewlery.

All in all it was a great show and Robert's voice sounded amazing.(he nailed ..deep green sea)

THANK YOU ROBERT FOR HITTING THAT NOTE IN PRAYERS FOR RAIN!!!! Happy Birthday!!!

japanesebaby · « **Reply #132 on:** April 21, 2009, 07:23:55 PM »

hi j it was nice meeting you too

Quote from: sullen on April 20, 2009, 12:26:13 PM

i just slept for 24hrs
thank you las vegas

just got home after about 25 hours flying/waiting around on various airports. i had a morning flight out of vegas and i slept roughly two hours the night before. and perhaps something like 5(?) hours the night before that. i slept a little bit on the flight from washington to frankfurt but i'm totally disoriented.
but hey i guess i can "sleep when i'm dead"...

but what a trip! i don't care if coachella got a better gig, i couldn't have been there anyway.
so thank you vegas indeed!

japanesebaby · « **Reply #133 on:** April 21, 2009, 08:21:39 PM »

about the concert, more details later but i was going to say that i still think it was still better than the 4tour european shows which i saw last year, even in this truncated form. although it was a bit of a rollercoaster, some songs were really really good: 'pictures of you', 'from the edge...', 'the kiss'. not untypical songs so once again they'll look dull in the setlist, but the versions were just really fine ones, great performances. that's what matters most (at least to me). the european shows were certainly of more constant quality but also pretty much lacked such highlights (at least to me).
just some of the audience were really dumb there at the pearl. i suppose some people think that GA means the same as hanging out in a bar: there were some people who kept just talking to their friends literally all through the show, not even paying attention to what was happening on the stage at all. wt...?

but never mind that, don't want to dwell in the negative.

ghanisbuli · « **Reply #134 on:** April 22, 2009, 02:36:20 AM »

Quote from: japanesebaby on April 21, 2009, 08:21:39 PM

about the concert, more details later but i was going to say that i still think it was still better than the 4tour european shows which i saw last year, even in this truncated form. although it was a bit of a rollercoaster, some songs were really really good: 'pictures of you', 'from the edge...', 'the kiss'. not untypical songs so once again they'll look dull in the setlist, but the versions were just really fine ones, great performances. that's what matters most (at least to me). the european shows were certainly of more constant quality but also pretty much lacked such highlights (at least to me).
just some of the audience were really dumb there at the pearl. i suppose some people think that GA means the same as hanging out in a bar: there were some people who kept just talking to their friends literally all through the show, not even paying attention to what was happening on the stage at all. wt...?
but never mind that, don't want to dwell in the negative.

Seriously! People kept on going in and out for drinks where I was--did you come to drink, or did you come to see The Cure?

The show for me was definitely VERY bittersweet. They started out SO GOOD (Just like the fucking record, nearly!), and it was wonderful to see them. The sound was great where I was (203). But it does hurt my heart a little, seeing what could have been, because of course I always want more anyway! I've been trying not to hurt, trying not to stress out about the "reasons why"... I don't want these things to discount from the wonderful experiences I had! I had a lot of stuff go wrong this weekend (our plane was delayed 8 HOURS, and we just barely got there in time for the show!). I basically missed out on a whole day of my short vacation because of this delay, and I didn't get to go to any of the meet ups. I am thankful that I got to go at all! But I do transition from feeling sorry for myself because of all that I ended up missing, and for the enormous amount of money that didn't get it's full value because of these mishaps, back to being SO FUCKING EXCITED and tingly inside because of what I did get to experience.

japanesebaby · « **Reply #135 on:** April 22, 2009, 04:00:39 PM »

Quote from: ghanisbuli on April 22, 2009, 02:36:20 AM

Quote from: japanesebaby on April 21, 2009, 08:21:39 PM
about the concert, more details later but i was going to say that i still think it was still better than the 4tour european shows which i saw last year, even in this truncated form. although it was a bit of a rollercoaster, some songs were really really good: 'pictures of you', 'from the edge...', 'the kiss'. not untypical songs so once again they'll look dull in the setlist, but the versions were just really fine ones, great performances. that's what matters most (at least to me). the european shows were certainly of more constant quality but also pretty much lacked such highlights (at least to me).
just some of the audience were really dumb there at the pearl. i suppose some people think that GA means the same as hanging out in a bar: there were some people who kept just talking to their friends literally all through the show, not even paying attention to what was happening on the stage at all. wt...?
but never mind that, don't want to dwell in the negative.

Seriously! People kept on going in and out for drinks where I was--did you come to drink, or did you come to see The Cure?

sorry to hear you lost all that time because of airlines. that sucks.

but yeah, i've never seen so many people just going back and forth between the bar and the floor, all the time, back and forth, back and forth... i suppose there were lots of people there who weren't even fans, mostly looked like some rich young kids who were there just in order to drink and have a constant blah-blah-blah. i don't know where you were on the floor(?). i was on porl's side.
my oddest memory of the show is during 'disintegration'. there was this idiotic guy with his similarly idiotic girlfriend just literally simulating every possible ****ing position in front of me, totally uninterested in the show, both very drunk and just giggling and grabbing each other etc etc. my god it was just appalling, and surreal - especially considering there was something like 'disintegration' playing on the background.

all you could do was to shut all that out of your mind, really. i could have been REALLY annoyed by it (and in a way i was too), but before the show i had decided not to let anything, whatever it was, to distract me or ruin it for me. just tried to keep focused on all the good things, then i wouldn't be so pissed off later.

by the way it was kind of odd to see the show without any background screens and/or extra lighting rigs at all. just a black background and very basic lights. in a way i actually liked it, how there was nothing else but the songs.

ghanisbuli · « **Reply #136 on:** April 22, 2009, 06:00:02 PM »

I wasn't on the floor, I was in seats--section 203, row N. And A TON of the seats in front of us ended up empty by the end of the show! I thought it would be mostly fans at that show, but I guess it was just a lot of rich people who wanted to drink and go to a show.

I had wanted to be on the floor, but my mom was coming with for her first Cure show, and she didn't want to stand. She's even shorter than me, and my whole family has bad backs. I told her that you don't feel pain when you see The Cure, but I wanted her to have a good time, and I wanted to experience the show with my family, so we sat. And it ended up being a good thing, because we got there so late that we probably would've had a pretty poor seat in the pit!

It definitely was a different experience having the band play with limited lighting and no backdrop. I saw them without a backdrop at Sasquatch, but they still had all the lights up. This was my first time seeing them with a big screen, though--sometimes it was hard to know what to watch!

I can't believe your Disintegration story, though--that's just horrible. You should've cut in front of them, because they obviously didn't care about what was happening on stage. I know what you mean about not letting the negative in, though. That's always my goal. Each concert, I go hoping to have less regrets--that I'll be more aggressive, try to get backstage if I can, etc. Because a LOT of people have ended up backstage just by sweet-talking security, so why not me too?

pink ego box · « **Reply #137 on:** April 22, 2009, 08:28:48 PM »

Quote from: ghanisbuli on April 22, 2009, 06:00:02 PM

Each concert, I go hoping to have less regrets--that I'll be more aggressive, try to get backstage if I can, etc. Because a LOT of people have ended up backstage just by sweet-talking security, so why not me too?

That is the truth. A friend of mine got backstage during the 4tour by asking the guard standing at the backstage entrance. During Curiosa my then 13 year old niece sweet talked 4 aftershow passes out of The Cure's security and a girl talked her way back with us. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. But it doesn't hurt to try!
But they didn't stick around after The Pearl show. Someone said they left immediately?

I feel everyone's disgust with people leaving to get beer etc. At their south Florida show last summer I was surrounded by those people. Half the time my view was blocked. So annoying. At the Pearl I was front row but far off stage left but close enough to see so no beer runners around and Simon came and kneeled down at the edge of the stage in front of us to play. That was the highlight of the night for me.

dsanchez · « **Reply #138 on:** April 23, 2009, 02:03:01 AM »

Quote from: jbud1980 on April 18, 2009, 09:10:56 PM

Quote from: japanesebaby on April 18, 2009, 07:11:50 PM
about the possible 11 pm curfew (IF there was one, like said, i don't know for sure):
according to the ticket/advert the showtime was 8 pm but they didn't start until around 8:45 pm.

how can there be a curfew in a city that never sleeps?

they finished early cause Robert's hand was injured. end of speculations

http://craigjparker.blogspot.com/2009/04/roberts-swollen-hand.html

j · « **Reply #139 on:** April 23, 2009, 03:32:13 AM »

Quote from: ghanisbuli on April 22, 2009, 06:00:02 PM

I had wanted to be on the floor, but my mom was coming with for her first Cure show, and she didn't want to stand. She's even shorter than me, and my whole family has bad backs. I told her that you don't feel pain when you see The Cure, but I wanted her to have a good time, and I wanted to experience the show with my family, so we sat. And it ended up being a good thing, because we got there so late that we probably would've had a pretty poor seat in the pit!

Excellent choice BTW. That floor was not very forgiving. My feet were killing me even during the first hour of the show (even though I wear them every day, Doc Martens are not really conducive to standing on concrete for long periods of time!). They hurt so bad that I was sort of limping on the way back to the Rio!

Now on to my story about annoying a-holes....there is a certain person that is at most Cure shows in North America. I will refrain from mentioning this person here, but let's just say he is an old friend of the band. And I actually talk to him at most shows. Part way through the show, he ended up next to me and started to smoke pot. A guy and his girl on his other side started giving him shit about it. The prick laid into them, and tried to pull rank saying that he has known the band for 25 years and he can do what he wants. Needless to say, for being such a "tough guy", once the guy went to get security, he high-tailed it out of there!

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