Stevie Wonder, Sydney 2008, Acer Arena

What a privilege it was to be at tonight's Stevie Wonder concert. Great man, great singer, great band :)

The start of the night had me worried. There was way too much kick drum in the mix for the bass drivers which sounded bad itself and just exacerbated the problems with the arena echo. I kept looking at the sound engineer hoping to see him trying to resolve the situation, but no action. I had to put in my ear plugs.

Mercifully though, after the solo's, where the levels of each band member was raised for their part, when the engineer reverted to the regular mix it was much better. How he didn't notice the problem before is beyond me.

From then on the night was fantastic. Dancing in the aisles, singing along--awesome. Stevie's daughter did an amazing song. No encore, but Stevie promised to come back and floated the idea of doing a benefit gig for less than fully abled people. Count me in on that Stevie.