For the first time in five years, Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell and AJ McLean brought Backstreet back to the ‘Burgh with the “This Is Us” tour.
The Wednesday evening concert at the Trib Amphitheatre at Station Square marked the first time the band performed here without eldest member Kevin Richardson, who left the group in 2006 to start a family.
The concert’s turnout and venue also were much different from those in the early 2000s. Gone are the hordes of screaming teenage girls filling 20,000-plus capacity arenas, such as when the band’s singles dominated airwaves and topped the countdown of MTV’s now-defunct “Total Request Live.” Wednesday’s show brought out children, younger adults and senior citizens — male and female — to the modest-sized, more simplistic outdoor space, with its folding chairs, asphalt surface and carnival-like food vendors.
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