House of Blues: User Reviews

It should be called the house of blues......boo hoo.
By #1critic from Dundee, April 16, 2008

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I just went to the House of Blues for the first time to see Bone Thugs.
Before I even bought tickets I could not find a consistent concert start time, and if there were openers or not. Even when I called for more info HOB would not provide it.
We really wanted front row for Bone, so we made reservations to skip the line. That part went perfect. Got there at 6, service was good, food was good. We were done at 7, and were near the front of the "early line". We were let in early and had second row center stage. We were hyped. Brings inside the show are way too expensive and small and not worth it. We stood there for an 90 minutes staring at a curtain, a screen with these cheap advertisements, and weak background music that you could barely make out what it was.
The show started at 9 with the official opener that was on one of the web sites I had been looking at. They were on for 30 minutes. Way too much bass and poor acoustics. Then the curtain closes and the screen drops again. Another 60 minutes passed by. The crowd was getting a little angry as well. Finally the curtain opened up and it was some dude that looked like Wish Bones ugly step brother(signed to Thug Line records). He did two songs and the curtain closed again. Crowd is angry. Curtain opens and a trio of rappers (signed to Thug Line records) rapped for way too many songs. Curtain closes. People are pissed, and I am almost ready to leave. Then curtain opens to find some guy, an R&B buster who was booed all through his few songs. Curtain closes. No water, no bathroom break, cause you can't loose your spot. Finally just over 3.5 hours later Wish and Lazie come out. No Krazie bone, he had a tooth ache. This was like going to see the Bulls without Jordan playing. Lazie and Wish performed as expected for 60 minutes.
Once the show was over the parking was a whole entire horror story where you had to pay at a machine that was crowded, and then take the ticket to a booth. Terrible. This may have been my worst concert experience of all time. I won't be back.