It wasn't a train wreck. Openings for a number of songs seemed tentative, but once y'all locked together, it sounded fine. (One thing that might help w/ that, which we discovered the hard way in Wild Mercy, is to set up tight instead of spreading out to use the whole stage. It's nice to have all that space, but it can lead to everybody feeling disconnected. We found that it was much easier to lock timing together if we were physically in closer proximity.)

We're unsure whether the recording was actually recording FOH or one of the monitor mixes or something in between. It seemed extremely guitar/drum heavy and vocal light when we listened to a bit, which makes it seem more like a monitor mix to me or possibly pre-fader front-of-house. Given all the equipment problems we were having, and the last-minute rewiring we had to do, I'm not surprised. (I don't know if you heard... the main bus on the Mackie decided to die right before things got started, so I ran the show on Aux 3. So the recording could be one of the monitor mixes, or Aux 3 pre-fader, or Aux 3 post-fader (which is what actually went to FOH). My point being... don't assume that the recording is what FOH sounded like 'cause from what I listened to of it, it's not.) The mix out front sounded good to me, and people seemed to be having fun.