After the initial disappointment of not getting into the photo pit, I settled in as close as I could for Public Enemy for what would turn out to be an awesome show.

After a good, but a tad too long warm-up set from the Bomb Squad, Chuck D took the stage for a solo version of “Bring the Noise.” After Flav came out, he lovingly chastised his partner for missing the opening song (”How you gonna miss ‘Bring the Noise,’ Flav?”).

MP3: Public Enemy - Cold Lampin’ With Flavor

Shortly after that, people started yelling out “sirens!” which signal the opening of It Takes a Nation of Millions…. Chuck D laughed and said that if we wanted to hear them, we were going to have to do it ourselves. So that spawned a reasonable outpouring of some awkward sounding mouth sirens, leading into “Countdown to Armageddon.”

Other highlights included Flav getting angry after people booed his mention of his TV show (it did contrast well with their performance of “She Watch Channel Zero”), Flav’s drum solo and their closing hits that weren’t from the album: “Welcome To The Terrordome,” “Harder Than It Looks,” “911 Is a Joke” and, of course, “Fight the Power.”

More photos below the jump…