Sarg
2-12-01, 12:59 AM
Pat Benatar took the audience back to the 80's, and gave us a taste of what's to come in the near future in her music.
The concert was held at a venue on the Florida State Fairgrounds. The venue seats 5000 people and was filled to near capacity for the show. The stage was large with fantastic lighting effects during the show that made Pat Benatar look even more raidiant than she already is. A local radio station interviewed audience members, and some sang Pat Benatar songs before the show started.
On the walls at each side of the stage towered Jumbo sized monitors which were very cool with all the lighting and camera angles during the performances. Four cameras roamed the stage showing close-ups of Pat, Neil, and the band members. The audience was rockin' to the music, singing along, dancing, and enjoying themselves.
Neil Giraldo (Pat's husband), played his guitar riffs during "True Love" which brought the house down, surprising the audience by disappearing from the side of the stage while still playing. He entered the audience from a hallway around the side of the stage and continued jamming on the guitar while he walked down one main isle from the front of the venue all the way to the back while stopping to play his riffs to the kids along the way, and returning to the front in the opposite isle stopping along the way as the spotlight followed his walk around.
The riffs he played lasted a very long time.
A friend of mine who sat a few seats away from me and my family said he was getting pissed because of comments that he heard two guys behind him make about Pat Benatar being a has-been, and he decided to just leave it alone. After Pat's first song these guys changed their tune, and got into the show. Pat blew the audience away with her still very strong vocals.
I think she opened up a lot of eyes last night. During "Hell Is For Children" the audience of different ages headed for the front of the stage to touch hands with Pat and Neil as even more people left their seats for the stage as Neil tossed out his guitar picks.
They did two encores with thunderous foot stomping, whistling, and applause between each before closing the show with "All Fired Up" and Neil holding his guitar in the air at the end of the song and Pat strumming the last note by raking both hands across the stings.
This was the setlist for the concert:
Treat Me Right
I Need A Lover
We Live For Love
Girl (new song - rocker)
We Belong
Shadows Of The Night
Love Is A Battlefield (acoustic version)
True Love
Hell Is For Children
Heartbreaker
[first encore]
Please Don't Leave Me (new song - ballad)
Promises In The Dark
[second encore]
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
All Fired Up
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PICTURES:
http://benatarfanclub.com/tour2001/0210tampa/index.html
Sarg
<FONT COLOR="#6699cc" SIZE="1" FACE="Verdana, Arial">This message has been edited by Sarg on 02-23-2001 at 07:59 PM</font>
The concert was held at a venue on the Florida State Fairgrounds. The venue seats 5000 people and was filled to near capacity for the show. The stage was large with fantastic lighting effects during the show that made Pat Benatar look even more raidiant than she already is. A local radio station interviewed audience members, and some sang Pat Benatar songs before the show started.
On the walls at each side of the stage towered Jumbo sized monitors which were very cool with all the lighting and camera angles during the performances. Four cameras roamed the stage showing close-ups of Pat, Neil, and the band members. The audience was rockin' to the music, singing along, dancing, and enjoying themselves.
Neil Giraldo (Pat's husband), played his guitar riffs during "True Love" which brought the house down, surprising the audience by disappearing from the side of the stage while still playing. He entered the audience from a hallway around the side of the stage and continued jamming on the guitar while he walked down one main isle from the front of the venue all the way to the back while stopping to play his riffs to the kids along the way, and returning to the front in the opposite isle stopping along the way as the spotlight followed his walk around.
The riffs he played lasted a very long time.
A friend of mine who sat a few seats away from me and my family said he was getting pissed because of comments that he heard two guys behind him make about Pat Benatar being a has-been, and he decided to just leave it alone. After Pat's first song these guys changed their tune, and got into the show. Pat blew the audience away with her still very strong vocals.
I think she opened up a lot of eyes last night. During "Hell Is For Children" the audience of different ages headed for the front of the stage to touch hands with Pat and Neil as even more people left their seats for the stage as Neil tossed out his guitar picks.
They did two encores with thunderous foot stomping, whistling, and applause between each before closing the show with "All Fired Up" and Neil holding his guitar in the air at the end of the song and Pat strumming the last note by raking both hands across the stings.
This was the setlist for the concert:
Treat Me Right
I Need A Lover
We Live For Love
Girl (new song - rocker)
We Belong
Shadows Of The Night
Love Is A Battlefield (acoustic version)
True Love
Hell Is For Children
Heartbreaker
[first encore]
Please Don't Leave Me (new song - ballad)
Promises In The Dark
[second encore]
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
All Fired Up
__________________________________________
PICTURES:
http://benatarfanclub.com/tour2001/0210tampa/index.html
Sarg
<FONT COLOR="#6699cc" SIZE="1" FACE="Verdana, Arial">This message has been edited by Sarg on 02-23-2001 at 07:59 PM</font>