I was at Denver and we got Straight and Back To December, Long Live was in the set, so I was very pleased
I saw it twice prior to Long Live being added (Nashville N3, Phoebe and Nothing New before All Too Well, Would’ve Could’ve Should’ve and Mine; Detroit N1, Haunted and I Almost Do) and once in Europe (Hamburg N2, TTPD version, TLGAD/Run mash-up and Dear Reader/Nothing New). The show was MUCH better prior to adding TTPD, even loving But Daddy/Who’s Afraid/Broken Heart. And my hot take is the mashups weren’t as special as the individual songs. And not just because I probably got two of the worst mashups of the entire tour, haha.
^ truly crazy about seeing it three times is I paid face value for all three AND failed to get in on ticket sale day after waiting eight hours for Atlanta night 2.
Watching the BTS made me mad at myself for not trying to make the Arizona shows work. I got an email a week or so before the tour started with a chance to buy tix. I said know hoping I could make LA work but then the secondary market went nuts (and I ended up with COVID-19 that weekend).
I’m also glad I saw it pre-TTPD, though I would have liked to get “Long Live,” which wasn’t in the set yet when I caught the show. My hot take is that seeing it in an open air stadium was like 30 percent of what made it amazing. Glad my venue didn’t have a roof!
I know it’s one of the unicorn shows, but Nashville N3 was absolutely insane seeing every moment of the show in pitch black with lightning in the distance (and not so distance).
This sounds amazing, but I am extremely thankful I didn’t have to go through what you had to go through to experience that full show. lol
Yeah, the five hour wait in the air conditioned “club” part of the stadium ended up not being anything compared to what 80% of everyone else who was there suffered through. My boss still talks about the concourses.