Egregious Overuse of Electricity Concert

Here’s my take on the Cheap Trick concert. You don’t give a concert in front of a city of people who have had no power for four days. At least, you don’t give anything other than an acoustic concert.

First, they had spotlights on top of their usual lighting. Then, they brought out the guy who invented the 12-string bass. That’s just absurd. “12 strings?” I thought, “That’s like having an 18-string guitar. ” Then they brought out the 30-string guitar.

All this was played out under the Arch, with the audience facing East toward East Saint Louis. The very very un-lit East Saint Louis. If I lived there I would have been motivated to swim the Mississippi with a very long extension cord and tap into some of the Power Cheap trick was wasting.

Alicia and Catherine both commented that the audience just wasn’t getting into the concert, even though Cheap Trick kept flashing bright lights directly into our eyes to wake up the crowd. “It’s like we’ve all been traumatized” said Alicia, who still has no power. The audience only got into one song. They swayed along with “The Flame.” Another crowd pleaser? The fireworks at the end. I think it should have been a candlelight concert with Cheap Trick singing a cappella.