What it was like
Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N Highland Ave, Hollywood. May 30th. Pitbull at the Hollywood Bowl, with special guest Lil Jon — which is a sentence that describes a night at one of the world's great outdoor amphitheaters where the agenda is having the best possible time and the musical context to support it is considerable.
The Hollywood Bowl with Pitbull and Lil Jon is the specific combination of venue, artist, and temperature that produces a summer night you'll be describing in September. The Bowl's outdoor setting gives the production room to expand — the light show, the video walls, the bass frequency in open air — while the hillside and the stars do the rest. The catalog covers everything from "Give Me Everything" to "Yeah!" and the crowd that knows all of it is going to be loud.
Tickets at ticketmaster.com. May 30th. The Hollywood Bowl sells from the reserved sections first; the lawn is the social version. Either way you're in the amphitheater that has been making nights like this possible since 1920. Memorial Day weekend in Los Angeles. Pitbull and Lil Jon. The Bowl. Get there.