Gibson Amphitheatre
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The Gibson Amphitheatre (formerly Universal Amphitheatre) is a theater located in Universal City, California, USA. It was originally built in 1972 as an outdoor venue, but was remodeled and converted into an indoor theater in 1982. It seats up to 6,189 for concerts, including 6,089 chairback seats (3,900 in the main level and 2,189 in the mezzanine). It is the second-largest theater in California, behind the Shrine Auditorium, another Los Angeles venue. The theater is best known for its acoustics and its sightlines, considered the best of any theater in North America.
Major events at the Gibson Amphitheatre include various musical acts, as well as the annual Teen Choice Awards, and has been the site to acts such as Eric Clapton, Guns N' Roses, The Who, Tenacious D and the inaugural Sounds of the Underground 2006, in which this concert had security running around non-stop due to the frenzied audience.
Bill Gates is said to be using the model of the Amphitheatre for a similar one on his own property because of the supposedly good acoustics that it has.
