So, I finally saw Aerosmith on Sunday.
The supporting acts were a little bit of a let down, though Arkid, who I had never even heard of before, played some pretty good music, and although Jet and Chris Cornell played really superb versions of 'Are you gonna be my girl?' and 'You know my name' respectively, the inclement weather and atmosphere was a little dissapointing.
So, after two hours of rain, and a 90 minute Chris Cornell set which, after the James Bond theme tune and some of his Audioslave songs, went on for about half an hour too long, and having stood up for rougly 9 hours, I was not impressed when Aerosmith were 20 minutes late coming on stage. However...
I run out of compliments for describing the quality of Aerosmith's live performance; the pure class of the sound and the electric atmosphere from the moment they started playing. They were simply unbelievable, and blew everything we had seen before that away. We went from being cold, wet, exhausted and wanting to go home to hoping that they would stay on the whole night and the next day to! All of their songs were fantastic, the pinacle of which was their performance of 'I don't want to miss a thing' which will be something that will live with me forever - 90,000 people singing to the greatest performance I have witnessed.
