B.O.C. is always awesome in concert!
by GentlemanB on 10/27/09Emerald Queen Casino - TacomaRating: 5 out of 5This October 24th, of 2009, Blue Oyster Cult concert was the ninth B.O.C. concert that I have attended, and my second at the Emerald Queen Casino (I also attended the 2008 BOC concert at the Emerald Queen) Almost everything about a B.O.C. concert is always great. In fact my only complaint about this Oct.'09 concert at the Emerald Queen is that they had the bass/low-frequency turned up way too much, which whenever the bass player got to jammin' hard, which was often, the audience was subjected to very loud and very distorted low frequency noise, which significantly interfered with the overall sound of the music. Fortunately this was an intermittent problem, only occurring something like 10 or 20 percent of the time (which was still too much of the time! was annoying) I even pointed the problem out to a person at the sound mixing board, and he told me that he knew the bass was over-boosted, and he said that he thought that the bass actually had blown a speaker so he couldn't stop it from sounding bad, though it certainly would have sounded less bad had he reduced the level of bass going to that particular speaker. Other than that technical difficulty, that they did not bother to minimalize (who's fault? the band or the venue? sound problems aren't very noticeable to the band while they play, so...), at the cost of sound quality, it was a super concert--B.O.C., to sum it up, is simply a fantastic concert band, with a great sound and some creative and artistic songs and performing. Really top notch music and performing.