About a month ago Joe and Graham treated the entire Jot team to a day trip to Las Vegas. (thanks again!) We were celebrating the Unicorn deal, and since Joe went to Denny's instead of Vegas back when Excite got funded, Vegas was the natural destination to celebrate JotSpot's success.
For some of us, what was supposed to be a day trip turned into an all nighter, and I decided to stay overnight in Vegas to see the new Cirque Du Soleil / Beatles show, Love. At about 8:30 PM I went over to the Mirage and managed to buy the final ticket for that night's showing. I was excited but apprehensive at the same time, mostly because I still had some lingering concerns about the show's soundtrack. The music for the show is a remix of original Beatles recordings, and the idea of remixing the Beatles still seems sacrilegious. Fortunately, George Martin (The Beatles' producer) and his son produced the soundtrack, so I knew the music was in good hands. And, of course, Paul and Ringo had given their thumbs up to the project.
The show began at 10:30 and it wasn't long before I was awestruck by the synergy of the music and the performance. The show begins with a slow motion crawl across stage to the tune of an a capella version of "Because", and then breaks into cacophony with the opening chord to "A Hard Day's Night" that segues into "Get Back". And from that moment on it's pure bliss. I'm not going to review the show in detail, but for any Beatles' fan it's a must-see.
So why blog about the show now? Well, I'm still experiencing a high from it. I was extremely disappointed when I left the show because they didn't have a CD of the soundtrack. But the "Love" album was just released this past Tuesday, and for the past several days I've been watching a circus in my head every time I listen to it.
