Audio A Concert Review

The concert last night was awesome! Had some solid bands and they were all wonderful.

First up was Manic Drive. I forgot how much I like these guys. They played like 6 songs and I knew 5 of them. Great stuff. These guys have a lot of potential.

Next up was Seventh Day Slumber. They did a couple worship songs and a couple of their songs. Then the lead singer gave part of his testimony and shared a powerful story. It was good.

Group 1 Crew came out. Their bassist and guitarist came out wearing white plastic masks which was really weird. Blanca is 5 and a half months pregnant and was still dancing all over the stage. Her hair wasn’t as big as last time I saw her. Still a pretty big afro. I also forgot how hard it is to get a good pic of them. They don’t stop moving! Love these guys.

The Audio Adrenaline concert was really good. I feel like I must confess I am a fanboy of these guys. I own all of their full length albums. I saw them once before live on their last tour with Mercy Me and I have watched the Worldwide and Hawaii concert DVDs. I started listening to them back in 1998 or so and I was crushed when Mark was losing his voice. My favorite album is Underdog, no question. A close second would be Lift.

Here are the songs they played. I can’t remember the exact order, but this is close to the set list.

They had an intro video that played some clips of their old songs. One was Some Kind of Zombie and then I knew they wouldn’t play that in the set.

Clap Your Hands

Get Down

Mighty Good Leader

The Comeback King

Never Gonna Be as Big as Jesus

Big House

Ocean Floor

He Moves You Move

Hands and Feet

Supernatural

Fire Never Sleeps

Kings and Queens

A couple things about the song selection:
1. I was glad to see them start out with Clap Your Hands. Classic one to start with.
2. Yes they did end Big House like Mark did. It did not feel the same, but it was ok.
3. Ocean Floor without Tyler Burkum singing is NOT the same. This is one of my favorite songs and I couldn't really enjoy it. Kmax got too fancy with this one.
4. They did one dc Talk song, Supernatural. Kmax was able to pull it off pretty well. I was mildly disappointed they didn't do Jesus Freak, but I will forgive them this time.
5. After Supernatural I was waiting for them to do Existence, Be, or Return of The Singer, but no such luck. I guess it makes sense he would want to move on from that part of his life.
6. Overall a good blend of original songs and new songs off of the K&Q album. Sad there was no song from the Worldwide album. Leaving 99 is a great song I wanted to see. They also sadly didn’t do Underdog or King. But I guess they can’t do every song.

Random thoughts: How old is Will? He founded Audio A way back in the day in. He is a cool guy. I love Dave Ghazarian! He might be my new favorite guitarist. He has awesome hair and can play quite well. There were only a couple hiccups but they are forgivable for not being on the road that long. Overall I like Audio A 2.0 and I hope these guys continue to make great music. 

That's all I got. Thanks for reading!