Concert review: Black Eyed Peas at United Center
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Hello, Black Eyed Peas. Goodbye, brain.
Spend too much time alone with the Black Eyed Peas’ music and your frontal lobe would rot from neglect. This is music designed to be experienced en masse without a thought clouding your head, preferably over a kicking sound system in a club or an arena.And so it was at the sold-out United Center, lobotomy central Saturday night in Chicago. One of the biggest-selling pop bands of the new century strung together every hit from its last three albums and then some in a performance that was pitched visually and sonically somewhere between a shout and a scream.
There was one surprise: an appearance by renegade Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, who fired up his signature solo on the Gunners’ “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” with Fergie doing her best Axl Rose imitation on vocals. It was another sing-along moment in a concert filled with them.
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