This guy in the crowd with one arm up and a yellow wrist band messed up a large number of my shots. He was center, front and had both arms up high most of the night.

A few songs I was a bit surprised that didn’t make it into the setlist were Deliverance, Baying of the Hounds, and The Drapery Falls–all three of which Opeth played the three previous times I have seen them. I was really happy they did Demon of the Fall. The full setlist is in my prior entry.

Opeth members took a deep bow after the photo below. I have a picture of the deep bow too, but you can’t even see the band members in it as they bowed so low they were below the crowd.

At long last, I present for you the full video for The Lotus Eater from the Watershed CD. There are a couple of things worth mentioning before viewing.

The first is that the LX3 can take great video (even in poor lighting conditions by someone who is very tired and in a state of constant jostlement by those around him). I seriously doubt there is a camera, that can be easily brought into concerts, that can take better photographs and video. Be sure to set the LX3 to HD mode and 16:9 viewing. Also, don’t be afraid to zoom into the digital mode on an LX3. I believe the non-digital mode only goes to 2.5X. The video below is at about 5X and the results are pretty good. Since you can’t change the zoom once the video begins be sure to get to 5X (or something closer to the maximum of 10X if you are farther away) before starting the recording.

The second thing to note is Per Wiberg, the keyboardist, at around minute 3. He moves his microphone out of the way to prepare to headbang which I find very amusing.

Enjoy!

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