I got back from the Linkin Park con­cert earlier and I have to say the guys were fant­astic! Truly awesome!

The sup­port bands were OK, with the Lost Proph­ets sound­ing bet­ter than local band Kin­esis. But Linkin Park blew them both away. The level of pro­fes­sion­al­ism was a world apart. From the light­ing and sound to the songs them­selves but mostly I think it was the band’s pres­ence on stage. And the songs. And Chester’s voice (which took two songs to really warm up but which was then out­stand­ing). And Mike Shinoda strut­ting round the stage fir­ing his rap lyr­ics scat­ter­gun stylee. And the songs. And the fant­astic rap­port with the audi­ence. You knew these guys were really enjoy­ing them­selves. They had tons of feed­back from the crowd. Mike joined the people on the pit at one point. Rob on drums worked hard all night and along with Brad and Pheonix provided the solid found­a­tion to most of the songs all night. Joe was great too, ignor­ing the fact that he seemed to be wear­ing what appeared to be a green hal­loween mask all night!

All in all a thor­oughly fant­astic night. I can’t wait for the Live in Texas DVD. It won’t be the same as being there but maybe the next best thing.