re: Anyone here check out Transiberian Orechestra?

I took my GF a few weeks ago in Little Rock and was impressed with parts but overall it's pretty boring. The story really drags and there is way too many slow songs. They let a few of the guys sing and they are seriously arena-rock-ballad type Christmas songs that don't work for me.

The guitar players are great for you folks that were hitting puberty around '84 or so.

If Poison and White Snake put together a Christmas album, it would be transsiberian orchestra.

Don't go in expecting any type of orchestra. There were 4 or 5 string instruments playing towards the back of the stage but you couldn't hear them at all. It's mostly 80's hair band type of music with pretty good stage lights and a little bit of pyrotecnics. I can see where this would have thrilled people 15 years ago but it just hasn't aged well.

There's a good looking brunette running around playing the fiddle most of the time but you can't hear it very well either.

There is a blonde guy that sang about a minute of Kashmir that gave me chill bumps. then it went back to whatever cheesy ballad they were playing :(

Oh, it is a very people of walmart type crowd.

Edit: to be fair, I took the gf because she went a few years ago and loved it. She was disappointed and said this show was much more slow.