Carnegie Library Music Hall

I want to like this place. The hall is gorgeous and I want to give them the benefit of the doubt but the sound for the show I went to was awful. I'm not sure if it was the acoustics of the building or the fault of the sound guy but it was pretty terrible. They do get in some great acts, the price of tickets wasn't absurd, and - regardless of where you're seated - you're pretty close to the stage/have a good view at least when the crowd is seated). I may give this venue another try if the tickets are cheap but I'm hesitant to fork out $$ for another show where the music is simultaneously painfully loud and you can't really hear anything. I had seen the same band at two other venues and the experience was much better.

I don't like this place as much as Darren does. They gouge you for snacks ($3 for a bag of chips!), the staff can be really uptight and unfair (some usher told Darren to sit down even though we were in the balcony and he wasn't blocking anyone's view, for a metal concert no less!), and they need a/c bad. Anyway, we saw Yngwie Malmsteen here, and he rocked, even if the sound could have been better. The seats were not comfortable and hard. Darren's seat was unstable (and they wouldn't let him stand???).

I also. saw the Cult here with Darren a couple years back.

My boyfriend had the worse seat in the house, to this day we still laugh about just how terrible his seat was, it was the last row in the theater right against the back wall and there was a huge black pole obstructing his view of the stage.

The theater has those hard wooden seats , school auditorium style.  I think this place could use a face lift.