I'm Burning Up For You Baby!

On Sunday July 13th the Jonas Brothers began a two night concert series at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California to film a self titled 3D movie that is set to hit theatres in January 2009. Complete with pyro, fireworks, elevations, and special guests, their performance at the Honda Center was full of energy and entertainment ready to provide an amazing and unforgettable evening.

I had seen the boys perform the night before at the Verizon Wireless Amp. but because the shows at the Honda Center were for their 3D Movie, it was quite different from the rest of their shows that I have attended in part of their Burning Up Tour 2008.

Typically, Demi Lovato opens the show performs for about a half an hour and then the Jonas perform an hour and a half set starting with That's Just the Way We Roll and Ending with SOS. However, for the Saturday show Demi didn't begin the performance, which threw many fans for a loop who were still out in the loby making a Jonas Brothers music video or taking pictures with the boys on a green screen for Burger King's Apple Fries. The show which was to begin at 6pm began around 7:30pm and was more of a musical film set than that of a concert.

The boys began with That's Just The Way We Roll and continued for two more songs before they ran off the stage for hair and makeup. Everytime the audience was jumping around and singing along it seemed like they would run off again. It was very much single performances filmed in sections. So for a good 5 minutes in between every few songs, the audience got this:

Although the breaks did get in the way of a concert without inturuptions, it was easily overlooked by their energy and crowd involvement that other concerts of their's never had, in that magnitude.

So much crowd involvement, some even ran on stage for hugs, making Big Rob fall before catching up to them.

There were four breaks and three costume changes but the concert went on beautifully with few noticing Joe's wardrobe malfunction (his vest got stuck on the camera when he threw it off leading to girls in the audience tugging on the expensive camera trying to take the vest for themselves), Big Rob falling twice! (once to get the 3 adoring fans off stage as well as during his solo in Burning Up) or Joe getting a ball kicked into his face by Nick (on accident: balls seen in picture above).

The boys peformed for a good hour, and paid tribute to the huge success that is Camp Rock by performing Music's in my soul, and Joe's solo Where You Are. After Where You Are Demi came out on stage for This is Me and followed up with three more songs before the Jonas Brothers began again.

Although I'm not a fan (yet) I must say Demi has powerful stage presence. Her energy and movements are very much like Miley Cyrus (In the best terms possible) and knows how to work the crowd. Her stage identity is very self-assured and demands attention which everyone at Honda Center was willing to give up to her. I'm more aquainted with her music now, and her debut album is going to be amazing by how it sounds now. She may not be Miley, but she will sure be a force to be reckoned with in the near future.

The boys put on an amazing show, but after the concert ended the lights stayed off for a "15" minute intermission (that ended up being a 45 minute intermission) before reshooting three songs that were messed up the first time around.

My friends and I got lucky and were able to trade in our seats here:

and get to move into our own private villa box in the lower levels. My friend Lauren has family friends that run the security at the Honda Center and he tried to get us backstage passes but they were very strict so we got our own box group seating instead which was amazing! It was complete with a bathroom, mirror, bar, drinks, food, living room-type lounge with a t.v. to watch what the camera crew was filming and a balcany with seats and air conditioning to have an upclose view of the concert with no one to block your view. We found out the box was ours for the whole night, but we were late getting back to them which is why we didnt have it at first.

However, the concert continued at past 10pm with the intro all over leading into That's just the Way We Roll.

It lasted about 15 minutes and was a fun bonus to the concert ticket for seeing a few favorite songs played twice.

Overall the concert was done very well considering that they were filming a movie at the same time. Although it did come off at times as they were trying to get the perfect scene for the movie than to engage and care about the audience, I understand that if I was given a big budget film with so much riding on it like they do, I would do the same undoubtably. It was a great day two and probably the best concert I had seen them perform to that date.