How would you compare MSG 2006 with MSG 2007?

When we played MSG in 2006, there were no expectations. We hoped we would sell about half the seats, and, for our own sake, make it as normal a night as possible. We just wanted to play and concentrate on putting on a good show for everyone. MSG 2006 was shaping up to be the biggest show of the band's career. Fortunately, we exceeded our own hopes for that night. We played a good show, though I think that it took us some time to settle into the evening and we certainly sold more than half the seats---we sold pretty much all of them. We felt a great sense of community for MSG 2006. We felt that not only did the band arrive on a bigger stage and hit a turning point in its career but our audience was right there with us. They were not in the seats that night, they were standing on that stage with us. We felt and continue to feel today that our audience pushes us and drives us forward. The dedication of our audience and our work ethic has taken us from a band that would play anything and everything a few short years ago to a band performing on one of the most prolific stages in the country, if not the world.

For 2007, the bar was set pretty high. We had sold the show out the year prior and had played a good show as well. We needed something to push us and drive us forward. There were now expectations placed upon the band based on the success of the previous year. We needed to do as well and better than in 2006. For years the band has been trying to find the right opportunity to capture the O.A.R. live show in a way that not only visually captured the show but also portrayed the energy and excitement of the evening as well. We saw MSG 2007 as the perfect setting for such an event. We knew we had the ability to go out on that stage and put on one of the best performances of our lives and we knew we were going to have the audience to back us up. 2006 was about the band's arrival into the elite club of MSG performers and 2007 was to solidify that we belonged there. 2007 was everything the 2006 show was and more. We had a sense of confidence and swagger that evening. The cameras weren't going to bother us, the fact that we had one shot to get the filming and recording right didn't bother us, and the fact that we all had about three hours sleep from the night before didn't bother us. These things helped us and fueled our performance. We were ready, we had arrived, and we weren't going anywhere.

-Jerry