On Nov 13, I was able to catch the Lynyrd Skynyrd, God and Guns Tour at the Pensacola Civic Center. The show promptly began as scheduled at 8pm. The first opening act was "Blackberry Smoke." I had never heard of them but they seemed to be a Southern Rock band and performed 4 songs. They are based out of Atlanta Ga, and had a good sound. After a stage change, the second act to perform was "Rev Theory." While I had heard of the group, I wasn't familiar of any of their songs. They are more of a hard rock based group, similar to Disturbed but without the dark lyrics.
Skynyrd took the stage at about 9:30pm and finished at about 11:00pm. They performed all of their major radio hits and a couple off of the new album. Nobody sat down during the entire 1.5 hours. I watched KISS perform just a couple of weeks earlier, While the KISS show had more theatrics and special effects, Skynyrd just rocked. People were singing along and dancing in the aisles. The Skynyrd show was probably the most fun I have had at a concert.
The only downside to the Skynyrd performance was the sound quality. The opening band had the best sound of the night. The instruments sounded clear as well as the vocals. The sound quality got worse with Rev Theory and did not improve with Skynyrd. It seemed that they preferred to be loud rather than sound good. Most notably, the singers vocals did not come through very well, and the overall sound wasn't EQed very well and in some cases sounded distorted. My companions noted this as well. The sound quality wasn't so bad that it had a negative effect, but I would have gave the Overall Rating 5 stars instead of 4 if the sound had been better.
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Favorite moment: The band came back for an encore of Freebird. This final performance brought the house down and capped off a great show. @
Opening act(s): Blackberry Smoke, Rev Theory @