| Maroon 5 concert rocks UTA |
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| Written by Andrew Plock, The Shorthorn staff | ||||
| Friday, 20 November 2009 10:37 PM | ||||
  Adam Levine, lead singer of Maroon 5, performs Friday evening in Texas Hall. (The Shorthorn: Stephanie Goddard) The sold-out crowd was in a constant uproar of cheers and singing as the band stopped at Texas Hall on Maroon 5’s Back to School Tour. From the first moment Maroon 5 hit the stage and opened with their song “Harder to Breathe,” students wasted no time grooving to the band’s music, at times singing collectively louder than the band sounded. “Is there anyone out there,” Levine asked, to which he received the first of many deafening responses from the crowd finishing the lyric. Public relations sophomore Ann Dao said the band delivered everything and more. Especially singer and frontman Levine.  “I am in love with him even more now that I’ve seen him live,” she said. “I was singing. I was screaming. I was jumping. I was so into it. If only they would have asked me on stage.”Maroon 5’s members were great to work with behind the scenes, said Mike Taddesse, University Events assistant director. “They’re very down to earth guys,” he said. “Adam Levine couldn’t stop talking about the awesome positive energy he felt from UTA. He even tweeted about it backstage.” Levine’s Twitter account had a few updates from his time in the Metroplex and UTA, including, “UTA!!! Seriously Amazing!” and “Sometimes you go on stage with nothing left and an amazing crowd fills you back up...” The festivities started with the ’60s-soul-inspired band Fitz and The Tantrums pumping up the crowd and setting the concert’s lively mood for the night. The set list amped up a few songs into the set as the band ran through “The Sun,” in which Levine and lead guitarist Jesse Valentine took an extended solo at the end, both pounding the stage with their feet as the band brought the crowd to a cheering frenzy. Music business freshman Logan De Freitas said he was surprised by Levine’s fretwork. “I had no idea he could play like that,” he said. “He had skills.” Freitas said he came to the show as a recent Maroon 5 fan and liked the show’s quality. “That was a world-class concert,” he said. “One of the best I’ve been to, and I’ve been to quite a few. It was flawless.” After the jam session on stage, the band wound it down with the acoustic portion of the set. Levine told the crowd he was out of breath. “Jumping around and trying to be a badass is hard,” he said. Levine and the band took it down a notch as he crooned through the song “She Will Be Loved” with his falsetto voice again give students a tune to harmonize with before kicking it up again and ending the show with “This Love.” As the band walked off the stage, the crowd’s volume level stayed the same. The continuous cheers kept gaining in intensity until the crowd began chanting for an encore. After a few minutes, the band walked back on stage in the darkness, causing the night’s loudest cheers. After a rendition of Frank Sinatra’s “The Way You Look Tonight,” the band played through its last song. Levine and Valentine switched back and forth soloing and, in the fashion they had all night, did one synchronized jump to end the show. Although some students waited in the rain hours before the doors opened, nothing could put a damper on nursing freshman Ramey Hayes and her friends’ concert experience. “We suffer for the music,” she said. Views: 709 | E-mail
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