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Review: Trans-Siberian Orchestra

by Jamison "JAK" Kissh on December 1, 2008

Yesterday afternoon a handful of people I know headed over to the XL Center in Hartford for this year’s tour of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. This year’s tour wasn’t all that different from last year’s except for the fact that it’s still amazing with the awesome moving trusses, second elevating stage, and incredible sound.

As always the technical background of this show amazed me. The sound was great and this year with my awesome floor seats (thank you TSO fan club) we had an awesome view of the stage in the middle of the arena and only 20 rows back from the stage. The pyrotechnics of this show were absolutely amazing, and color changing!

At the end of the show my friend and I headed over to the “booth” where we began talking to the guy running the moving rigging. From talking to him we learned a few neat facts:

  1. The show weighs 137,000 pounds I believe he said
  2. The show comes on 16 tractor trailers
  3. The stuff they use to run the moving trusses is pretty cool
  4. The sound board wasn’t anything spectacular
  5. The load in time for the show is 6 hours (that includes testing, not sure about inspections though)
  6. The load out time is a meager 2.5 hours

All in all, it was a great show and this year I even learned a few things. If you’ve never seen TSO get out to see them NOW.