Yeah, I'm disappointed that it's not CEAOS too. To me, that's the definitive TSO show... the narration... the songs... everything. However, the "greatest hits" show last year was pretty impressive. Was the narrative lacking? Well, yeah. But the rest of the program made up for it. Except for the opening. Never have cared for Time & Distance - never will.
Looking forward to seeing the tour dates come out later today so I can play the "well, who do we get this year: East or West" game again. Where we live, it could be either one... We've actually had both East & West play within 100 miles of each other just days apart so it's almost impossible to figure out which group is playing where.
REALLY hoping it's East in either Lex or L'ville this time around. Having seen both several times, I'm not a huge fan of the West group overall. Individually, they're AMAZING (Chloe, Andrew, JSS, Al, JLM, etc.) but as a group they just can't generate the excitement that the East group does.... To each their own, I guess! I have a friend who'd rather not go at all than to see the East group....
p.s. Would LOVE to have Zak do more than one song! Last year, my husband had no idea who he was & about halfway thru the song was like "That little guy has one HELLUVA voice!!!" I had to pull out the Savatage CD's when we got home and educate him.... He'd pretty much refused to listen to Savatage until then.
Looking forward to seeing the tour dates come out later today so I can play the "well, who do we get this year: East or West" game again. Where we live, it could be either one... We've actually had both East & West play within 100 miles of each other just days apart so it's almost impossible to figure out which group is playing where.
REALLY hoping it's East in either Lex or L'ville this time around. Having seen both several times, I'm not a huge fan of the West group overall. Individually, they're AMAZING (Chloe, Andrew, JSS, Al, JLM, etc.) but as a group they just can't generate the excitement that the East group does.... To each their own, I guess! I have a friend who'd rather not go at all than to see the East group....
p.s. Would LOVE to have Zak do more than one song! Last year, my husband had no idea who he was & about halfway thru the song was like "That little guy has one HELLUVA voice!!!" I had to pull out the Savatage CD's when we got home and educate him.... He'd pretty much refused to listen to Savatage until then.