What a disappointment
by vicbee2 on 4/25/16Mezzanine - San FranciscoI've been listening to St Germain for at least 15 years but had never seen them live so I was really excited when I learned they were playing in the City and told all my friends. I knew they were going to play more traditional African but didn't mind because I like African musics. I had never been to the Mezzanine and had no expectations... Wow! what a disappointment!!! Nothing wrong with the Mezzanine except it's a big bar with a small stage, absolutely the wrong venue for a 8 members band. The sound was so bad that we left after the 3 song, barely 30 mn into the concert. We stood upstairs where the view of the stage and the crowd below was good, but the bass was so saturated that all other instruments were barely audible. By the 3rd song we returned downstairs where the bass was less painful but with the musicians cramped on such as small space the sound was muffled and truly horrendous so we left. Poor choice of venue, poor sound set up.