Concert Review
The last time I went to a concert was 3-4 months ago and I was watching my dad’s band perform for the Vietnamese art concert. This time I decided to watch one of my favorite bands perform at the Charles E. Smith Center. Maroon 5 was a very popular band and performed on a Friday at Nov13, at 9PM. I arrived at the concert and it blew all my expectations away then I thought a concert would be like. It was so loud and the crowd was so into the music. The band not only played music to rock the concert but they played with such a swag it was entertaining to see how emotional each band member got. The first song they played was "This Love" from their album, "Songs about Jane."Adam Levine, dressed in skinny black jeans and plain white T-shirt, was slick and smooth onstage as Michael Jackson, minus the moonwalk.
The audience was at last on its feet and reveling in the performance. Levine and the rest of the band didn't pause between songs until the fifth one. The effort was so without any spontaneity, audience members may as well have been listening to a mixed CD with the volume cranked up .But Maroon 5 knows what the fans want: their favorite songs performed live, without any new interpretation. Dancing in the aisles began well before the fifth song, "The Sun." Levine & Co. know how to put on a show and keep people up on their feet. Infectious rhythms and upbeat lyrics would force even non-fans to at least tap their toes.”Won't Go Home Without you" brought more crowd singing, after Levine asked for some "audience participation," and some sweet lighting effects. The Maroon 5 show was quickly eclipsing Counting Crows. After "Secret" and "Shiver," the band played "Sunday Morning," each one a crowd-pleaser. It's hard to believe anyone went home without hearing one favorite Maroon 5 song. But the music was good, bluesy, fun rock, sharply punctuated by the keyboard and drums, and given a heavy, colorful, and slightly dark edge by the bass-player. The...