Trans Siberian Orchestra Concert Review
Last Friday night, my wife and I attended the Trans Siberian Orchestra Show at U.S. Bank arena in Cincinnati, Ohio.
This is the first TSO show that I have gone to, and I honestly wasn’t sure what to expect. I was well aware of TSO’s ties to the metal band, Savatage before I went to this show, but was not expecting this to be a hard rock show by any means.
In essence, this was like a hard rock show in disguise. It was definitely a Christmas themed show, but it was much, much more than that. This wasn’t an orchestra rehashing the same old Christmas songs that have you listened to 1000 times over the years.
The first half of the show, had a Narrator telling a Christmas story, in between songs. This kind of bored, my wife and I, and I could have done without this portion of the show. Aside from this distraction, the show was pretty amazing. The songs and arrangement played throughout this show, were a unique blend of classical and metal music. It was Christmas songs, redone in a fashion, that only Trans Siberian Orchestra could perform.
The show itself had it all. One of the best light shows I have ever seen live. Tons of pyro, lasers and more.
The stage was lit up in a way that I have not seen before.
Although TSO has many members, a few musicians stole the show. Guitarist (Savatage) Chris Caffery and (ex-Testament) Alex Skolnick were on fire all night. Mark Wood and his flying V, violin was a pleasure to watch as well.
This show had plenty of surprises in store for the concert goers, including a keyboard duel, a second stage in the audience and more.
If you get the chance to experience TSO live, do so. You won’t be disappointed. It is a unique live show that you can’t experience anywhere else. This show was a nice way to close out the great year of live music that 2007 brought to my area.
I was able to take one video at the show (before my camera self destructed), which was the first song of the night, Hark! the Herald Angels Sing. Check it out below!
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ANYTHING BUT GARBAGE*
O Hell NO!!! Transiberian Orchestra has the most amazing concert anyone can ever see. I am a broadway lighting designer and know what it takes to put up a show like this. It is nothing but garbage.
I’m writing due to the fact that this piece of garbage call TSO is horrible. This collection of rock band, orchestra, light show, is possibly the worst idea ever. The show will guarantee to ruin your evening, and anyone that is pathetic enough to actually like it has a distorted sense of nature. PLEASE save your money!!!!!! STAY AWAY!!!! The clientele drawn to this type of event is band geeks, trailer trash, and people with low IQ’s.
You must have been dropped as a child
You are truly an idiot.
I agree with sephjazz, they have their own genre in a way, sort of like santana, and if you don’t like that, that’s ok. But I personally enjoy the qualities of their music, and the energy they bring to their music. What I see so far is that some people don’t like their style, but what about their music? What’s wrong with that? And with the whole Britney thing, if you sell a lot of albums, it doesn’t mean your good, but if you’re good, it usually means that you sell a lot of albums. This is the case for TSO, they are good, and they’ve sold a lot of albums. (This is kind of like the “square is a rectangle, but a rectangle is not always a square” idea)
Saw them last night. Disjointed, blasting overdone production, enough heavy duty effects so to overlook rather simplistic overdone production – not. Siberians from…new jersey? Expecting modern – got timewarp back to 80’s glamour rock guitar-moves boy bands. Are all those people on stage really necessary? Overpriced. Will stop now 🙂
this year will be my fourth yeah to see TSO and i really enjoy the music i think the blend of rock with classical is done well by them but to all those that disagree it is your opinion as it is my opinion that they are awesome as far as anyones views being more valid or important than anyone elses how can you measure such a thing i have an extremely varied taste in music and have worked as a sound person for a couple bands and have been a mobile dj for a radio station but i dont think my opinion is anymore valid than someone that just simply enjoy the music i hope you all can agree on that