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so the arcade fire kicked major ass as always... they put on one hell of a show... i'd suggest... no wait.. i'd make anyone who had the opportunity to go see them, to go see them... they opened with a couple verses from dylan's "a hard rain's a-gonna fall" before the auditorium echo'ed into the buzzing intro of "oooooo ooooo oooo" to "Wake Up"....

Other notes in the show (besides the normal banging on helmets, extra drums, each other, and other various pieces on the stage), when they left for the last encore, they made their way into the main entrance area of the riv, and played an acoustic song as people left... it was a good idea in thought, but horrible idea in practice, since we were stuck all the way in back, not knowing what was going on (but i guess it is a treat for those who weren't all the way up front)... also, rick rubin was there in all his hairy-ness and he seemed like he was having a good time (maybe future producer?)...

anyways, we've managed to finally upload the pictures we got from our photographer... these pictures came out beautiful... tara (our photographer) did a great job with these... her website is http://www.alliancephotography.com.

our picture gallery can be found here: http://www.theoptionals.net/spgm
(higher quality resolution pics are available. e-mail me)

[the crew]