Muse Show in Boston
Daniel is the "Schwab" of music/band information. Want to know where the Rolling Stones recorded their sixth CD? Daniel knows. Want to know what bands are killing it in South Africa right now? Daniel knows.
I asked Daniel to write a blog post on our experience at the Muse show. So without further ado, Daniel...
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This past Friday, I went to one of my favorite bands Muse. Muse is known for the extravagant live
performances. They did not disappoint.
It seemed like more than just a concert.
The best place to begin is at the start of the show. The show opened with Scottish hard rock band,
Biffy Clyro. The band sounded...interesting...with some unconventional guitar tunings; however many of their
antics and lyrics seemed cliche for a hard rock band. All problems aside, they filled the time
well.
Muse came on at about 8:50PM.
The song 2nd Law: Isolated System was played as a screen that look like an
"Illuminati-style" pyramid lowered from the ceiling.
Images of a woman running away from something appeared on the screen. The woman dissolved into particles
and after a few seconds of silence, Matthew Bellamy began to play the opening
chords to the first song on 2nd Law, Supremacy. This was undoubtedly one of the
highlights. Others included Knights of
Cydonia, Madness and Map of the Problematique.
Muse dedicated the last song, Survival, to the Boston Marathon runners
which now seems eerie given the attacks on the Marathon this past week.
It is impossible to critique this show like a typical concert. The way the stage interacted with the music and the band made the show seem much more like a musical. For example, on Madness and Follow Me, lasers
shot out into the crowd and moved to the beats of each song. The set seemed to tell a story of a world
dominated by corrupt governments and selfish and self-serving elite. The message, it seemed, was to break away
from society and to live free. The depth
of the performance along with with the entertainment of the show made the
concert one of the best shows I have ever been to.
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