Transatlantic Seattle Feb 2 2014

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What a night for Seattle! First off winning the Super Bowl by nothing short of a butt-kicking of the Denver Broncos, congrats Seahawks!! 
And what better way to finish off the night than with a 3 hour prog/symphonic blitzkrieg by Transatlantic. Let me start by saying this show started 3 hours late from the original planned 6pm show. When my wife and I arrived at the venue in Everett, WA (north of Seattle about 30 minutes) we were informed the show was already pushed to I think 7pm to accomodate for the Super Bowl. We then went to our hotel room, as we live about an hour and half from Everett, so were not planning on going home.
We came back to the venue at about 6pm then were told the show was pushed to 8pm, I know for a fact the band arrived to the venue at about 3:30pm, I saw them arrive.
Sound check took longer and the Meet & Greet started late......not many complained since most were watching the game on cell phones, I did see a few people get ticket refunds as they could not stay any longer citing having to go to work early the next day..
Anyhow the actual start time ended up being about 9:15pm, the band did not take an intermission, they did the whole set due to the time, the show ended at about 12:20am Monday morning!

The venue was small, probably seated 220 total and it was about 95% full I would say.....Had the concert NOT been on Super Bowl Sunday with Seattle playing it would have been sold out very early is my guess.

My wife and I were front row to the right, straight line shot of Pete and Mike, there was about 10' of open space between us and the stage. The band started playing off very tight and sounded really good for such a small venue, then about an hour into the show you can sense they were getting a liitle off kilter, I knew it was Pete...he was struggling to stay in time, he hid it very well though, just before the start of last song he admitted he had lost monitors awhile ago. I also think the sound guy cranked up the volume as the show went on as it seemd to get really loud at times.
Neal's vocals were really nice but then they started to get very distorted but as usual Neal was excellent on the keys and he gets so into the music, very expressive. Roine's guitar and vocals were too low in the mix but when he soloed it did sound real nice and fantastic playing! Pete was perfect and so was Ted Leonard, you could hear them well. Mike was stellar last night....I have to say after seeing Mike play with Neal on the last two NM tours and Transatlantic, Mike Portnoy is a much better drummer with this type of music as compared to the last couple DT albums, don't get me wrong I like that stuff too, but this is much better.

The Whirlwind suite was fantastic as well was the encore suite....brilliant stuff! The crowd I actually think was a bit tired come about 11pm, considering most probably were up early watching pre Super Bowl events or attending parties and already drinking and eating, most would stand for a bit then sit.....It was when they showed a Seahawks logo on the screen the crowd got back into it after Mike pushed a bit, he likes it when the crowd gets into it, but I think most were tired already.

Excellent show, great setlist, my first time seeing Pete Trewavas and Roine Stolt live, so I was pretty pumped and they did not let me down. My wife as usual took a bunch of pics and I will share a few below, she got some great shots of Roine.

Enjoy!