UK76’s TRAVELS: We’re back!
Yesterday morning, the day of the first Philly show, I did some sightseeing first. Philadelphia has a few really nice places. So I started with the Historic District where you find places like Indepence Hall or Liberty Bell. For lunch I had a typical Philadelphia cheese steak. Not the healthiest of meals but it tastes really good!
Towards the evening I headed down to the sports complex with Wachovia Center. First of all I wanted to pick up my will call tickets. They had a little trouble to find them (I guess it might have been because tickets were sold through Ticketmaster and Comcast). Finally I got them but I was told that I had to show up every night to collect my tickets. I had hoped to get all tickets at once. Hopefully tonight they find my ticket easier…
As usual I met quite a bunch of people before the show. This time I was seated in the left front block on the floor about halfway back. This made for a nice total view of the stage. But still I rather enjoy being up front. During a walk-around in front of the stage I had a look at “Phil’s little helpers”. He has got three laminated sheets at the edge of the stage with a few helping words for Mama, Ripples and Hold On My Heart. I probably post the photos I took of them when I’m back home.
Around 8.20pm “Dead Already” sounded throughout the gigantic arena (a capacity of about 20,000 people!). No real surprises again, I only noticed that Phil’s voice wasn’t on top that night but it got better during the show. The audience was very good and it was fun spotting especially one guy on the lower level who was strangely dancing all time. He really seemed to be having the time of his life!
This morning I went for sightseeing once more. This time I walked up the Benjamin Franklin Parkway towards the Art Museum. That’s the place where Rocky Balboa aka Sylvester Stallone ran up the stairs in the famous movie! There’s also a Rocky statue right next to those stairs. Just when I started walking back I bumped into Daryl Stuermer! We talked for a short while and then I continued my walk through the city. So here I am now back at the hotel. Will go out for lunch soon and then drive down to Wachovia Center once again. Judging from what Daryl told me they most likely won’t change the set at all. So it will be Hold On My Heart again and not the rumoured In Too Deep.
Bye for now, might post another update tomorrow.
Ulli
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September 19th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
Hello. I am going to the show tonight in Philly; Wed., Sept. 19th. I searched for reviews and happened onto your blog. Very nice.
This will be my first time seeing Genesis, and I’m very excited, despite the fact that I have a terrible cold at the moment. Bad timing, but I’m not going to let that stop me.
So, do you go to every show in every city? If so, how do you manage to pull that off?
This will also be the first time I will have seen a concert at the Wachovia Center. I’ve been to the Spectrum many times over the years; but of course, as I’ve gotten older and bogged down with family, work and “responsibilities” like bills, I haven’t gotten out nearly as much as I would have liked.
I’m looking forward to a good show. Catch you on the flip side.
Regards,
Lou
September 20th, 2007 at 2:50 am
Thanks for posting Ulli, I’ve been looking for a press review from Philly all day and can’t find a thing … anybody see any reviews of show 1 in Philly anywhere?
September 21st, 2007 at 4:05 pm
uK76,
Was at the first show and really enjoyed it, had not seen Genesis in about 20 years and thought they sounded as good as ever. jim, check philly.com, saw a short review there, it was not overwhelmingly great but it was an interesting read nontheless.