It turns out that there is a rush of foreign bands playing in Shanghai. Over the last year there has been Jennifer Lopez, Elton John, Pet Shop Boys, to name a few. My experience at concerts was in the form of Metallica. I was not a big Metallica fan in my younger days but when the tickets ended up being free - what the heck why not?
I found out that GE has a luxury box at the arena that seats about 30 people. We had 6 in our group and we met a bunch of other GE China folks - some I had met on other leadership outings.
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| From the street. It is in the World Fair part of Pudong. |
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| The VIP entrance to the GE Box, nice! |
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| The show started about 25 minutes late and went for two and half hours. 4-5 encore songs. |
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| Cool light show and they were rockin' in the mosh pit! |
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| Lights on during the encore. Some people had left already. |
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| About $350 for the first 10 rows, $200 for middle floor and lower seats, $80 for the upper deck. $0 for the GE Box. |
A few days later Yangmei and I went with another couple to Michael Jackson, Cir-de-soli. It is a mix of Michael Jackson type dance and a little acrobats thrown in. Much more dancing than we expected but lots of fun.
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| We were straight on from the stage. |
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| Lots of lights. |
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| About 20-30 dancers in all and they played most of his good songs. |
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| There was a main dancer who had the moves like the king. |
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| These were lighted costumes. A very cool effect and similar to what Michael was going to use on this tour... |
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| In the basement of the Mercedes arena is an ice rink. For one of my team building events we spent a couple hours on the ice together. |
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