That's right Rush Fans, I've done and gone to a Celine Dion concert. And, I have to report, I enjoyed myself. About 8 months ago I feared the worst when I heard that Ms. Dion was canceling her Vegas thing forever. I had promised my wife that experience. Well, when I heard she was touring again, I jumped on the tickets.

The Tacoma Dome is an interesting place to see a concert. The acoustics are okay, but the best part is that you're on a metal bench that stabs you in the back the entire time. :| It is huge though, and as the crowd stamped their feet in the second encore the place sounded like an earthquake.

Interesting that now instead of lighters, they have little pens that people light up. And, no drug use that I could tell....indeed many were older than Julie and I. However, the demographic was wide, and there were plenty of males to make me comfortable.

She did a Queen song...actually two. We Will Rock You and The Show( Third video) . They were fine, but I bet if I was a big queen fan I'd be chagrined by the selection.



So how do these two Canadian musicians compare concert wise?
Rush: Better lasers, no clothes changes, no dancers, much better music

Celine: better clothes, a lot prettier than Rush, lots of clothes changes, better dancers, no lasers

So Rush wins still. See, the dancers are about 2" tall from where we sat, so the music means alot more. I mean, Celine had a small army up there, bald people flying all over the place. It was a circus of flying humanity. Then people would disappear into the floor and come out in a new costume. They had a walking treadmill, like you see at the airports, because these high energy people simply could not get enough laps without it. We were about a 75 yards away and I think sweat beads from the Dion Dancers reached our row.

The neatest tech was the screen, which in the video is high, but it descends, like a big cubicle, so Celine and the bald bunch can have more space to change into or out of clothing. It was also translucent at times, a neat trick. But no lasers? Whats up with that?



It was also fortunate that they had a comedian warm up the crowd since EVERYONE was late due to the woefully inadequate parking at the tacoma dome. Its clear that when 50,000 people want to do something at the same time, there are few if any facilities that can deal with it well. This is why I vote rail everytime it comes up.
What's funny is that she said hello to tacoma, but I'm certain she had no idea where she was really. Is it too much for someone to even mention a landmark of where they're at? "Hey ,I saw the Space Needle...cool guys!? You know, some validation. Seattle, having no sports teams in 100 sq miles, needs a boost guys.

Well, at least she came here.