30 Seconds To Mars At The Greek Theatre - May 15, 2010

What to say, what to say?

As some of you know, I am a veteran concert goer. Most of my concert experience over the past 10 years is thanks to Steely Dan, but I have enjoyed many artists over the past 40 years. I have watched as the audience has aged at concerts that I frequently attend. Sitting down for the entire show and only getting up off their butts at the encore. It pains me sometimes, because I am a dancing in place type of girl. I love moving to the music and getting into the experience. Seat dancing is not my idea of a good time...but enough of that.
Let's move on to my review of the first concert I have gone to, where the average age of the audience was probably 20 years (or more) younger then me. My partner in crime this fine evening is 35 (yes) years younger then me. Thanks so much my Marine "Other" son, for putting up with this oldie who could easily BE your mother.



30 Seconds To Mars at The Greek Theatre on Saturday night May 15, 2010, was one TOTALLY AWESOME SHOW.

I knew their latest CD by heart and I sang (after a fashion) the entire thing. The only song I didn't know was Bad Romance by Lady Gaga, but my partner in concert crime knew it, so he sang it for me. :-)

Jared Leto is an actor by trade and training and it showed in the presentation of the songs. He reminds me a bit of Mick Jagger, in that regard. Strutting around the stage, making the audience sing with him. He yelled at us to jump and the told us to nudge anyone who was not jumping and enjoying the night. If anyone was sitting before he told us this, that stopped them right there. We were dancing, jumping, screaming and all around having one heck of a great time.

Unfortunately for this music lover, it was almost impossible to see the guitarist and bassist, due to the very low lights on them. It was probably my biggest criticism of the performance. The sound was great, the lighting, a bit too overdone, to the detriment of the other players.



In bad things having nothing to do with the band. There were 3 opening groups, which both of us decided did nothing for us, musically. It wasn't horrid, but it was forgettable. I still have problems with their names. One was Shiny Toy Guns, Neon Trees and Street Drum Corps (who helped 30STM with percussion for some of their songs). The upshoot of all those opening acts was that 30STM did not hit the stage until 9:30PM and got the hook at 11PM. A very short set, for a top billing act.

In things that might offend others (but not me) Jared is totally into cursing, which I knew and it made me laugh every time he would say something. Trust me, that man will never see PBS before 10PM, with the amount of F bombs that he uttered. :-)

If you would like to see what parts of the show looked like, feel free to check out some of the You Tube videos that I linked to.

The show was electric...truly.

I was so glad we made it happen.

Thanks again, my "favorite" son. I will never forget.


SET LIST

You Tube video of Escape and Night of the Hunter.

Attack

You Tube video of Search and Destroy.

From Yesterday

You Tube video of This Is War.

100 Suns

L490

The Story/Bad Romance (Lady Gaga)/The Kill

You Tube video of Closer to the Edge.

Hurricane

You Tube video from up on stage. Kings and Queens.


I didn't realize that I had posted so much on this band. If you are interested in my reviews of their 3 CD's or my original post when I happened to see them perform at NASCAR, please click the links.

NASCAR Where it all began.

30 Seconds To Mars First CD
A Beautiful Lie Second CD
This Is War (a Trip to the Hive just after the launch of the Third CD)