I saw Berlin at the Oregon Zoo last night.
I have enjoyed them for a long time, even in my pre-teen days when my older sister used to play
Pleasure Victim a lot.
Frankly, it started out a little rough, with some of the male vocals sounding a little too strained.
The keyboards were great, and I was thinking maybe they would do better in smaller, indoor venues for these old synth hits. Then they started playing music off of 2019 release
Transcendance, and it was fantastic. I thought maybe they were just better off moving forward.
Then Terri Nunn went out into the crowd singing "Take My Breath Away". That is not new material - going back to 1986 - and in a way she was even more outdoors than before, but everything was perfect and powerful and the crowd was thrilled. (I'm not sure how security felt about it, but no riots were started.)
As well as that turned out, I feel a little bad mentioning the rough start - maybe I am being too critical - except that they turned it around so completely that it makes things even more impressive.
Good show!
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