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Pretty disappointed
Wow, first time seeing Tiesto live... (yes, for real..things just kept coming up every time he'd come to T.O.)
... and for me a sad disappointment. I've watched many videos of his performances, and heard countless live sets, but for some reason it just didn't do it for me last night.
From what I remmeber, he started off nice and slow, and then kept going nice and slow....and kept going nice and slow...and...yeah you get the idea. I just couldn't get into it to get my body moving. Luckily at some point between 3 and 5 am he played a few of the classics which was the only time I managed to feel the energy in the place, but after which he kept it nice and slow again. The music selection was okay, but I just didn't feel the energy. I guess that can be partially blamed on the speaker arrangement at the club.
Although I hear that the Docks has the best soundsystem around, I thought it was pretty poor. You HAD to be in the middle area in front of the stage in order to get the volume and kick that you'd expect out of a system like that. I guess you could say I'm too used to the Guvernment where normally we'd come home deaf and not hear anything for a day or two 
I guess the night turned out allright thought because a lot of old friends showed up so a good time was had. I ran into TheVrk by chance at the bars who reminded me of this place (long story on my absence) so as far as I'm concerned the night didn't completely go to waste 
I guess Tiesto will do it for the real fanatics, or for the mainstream crowd, but for me who's been around Trance since it evolved from other forms of electronica waaay back in the day (before I was old enough to go out...legally ), this wasn't anything special. Just another really expensive outing 
Anyways, just my 2 cents :P
Vlado
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