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Sep. 14th, 2012 01:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
why_me_why_notConcert-Day Recap! (saving this mainly for myself)
Since we were late last time (due to traffic, we didn't get to the venue until the opener was already on), we left about two hours earlier this time (planning on having food before the concert) - and made great time, so we ended up with nearly two hours to kill before the gates even opened. So we went for drinks and appetizers and flirted with the bartender at Chili's for a while. We ended up in the center lawn section about five or seven rows back, which was great.
(Other than the people I was bitching about on Twitter. If you didn't see it, there was a couple who came right before the show was going to start and put their chairs down on top of someone else's stuff. Like, there was a big beach towel spread out saving someone's spot and this couple first put their chairs down on the edge of the towel and then ended up moving the towel altogether. THEN! Beside them was a blanket where there was a guy & his girlfriend & another girl, and the two girls had gone off somewhere, and the mom of this crazy couple just invites her kid to sit on this stranger's blanket. You could tell the guy was obviously not sure what was going on but he didn't say anything, just let the kid sit down with him and show him his DS. But when the girlfriend got back, she at first couldn't find the blanket - b/c there was a KID on it! - and then she had this really WTF look on her face and made her boyfriend move the blanket. So then the kid takes out another DS and was going around asking strangers to play DS with him. At one point during the concert, he was over in the next section of the lawn asking strange women to dance. He was probably like 7 or 8 years old. It was CRAZY.)
I knew Scotty McCreery was young, but I didn't realize he was a BABY. I mean, I don't watch American Idol, but I did know that he was still in high school because of the whole thing this past spring with him getting injured playing on his high school baseball team, but still. He's a baby. He's adorable, though, and his songs are catchy and young and fun, and it was good. One of the kids in front of us, probably about R&D's age, had met Scotty before the show and gotten his guitar autographed and he kept talking about how awesome Scotty is. It was cute. Btw, Scotty's song The Trouble With Girls? Totally a Davey song. That kid is gonna get into so much trouble when it comes to girls. Also, Scotty covered Travis Tritt's T-R-O-U-B-L-E and all the young'uns in the crowd were like, "uh, ok" because they didn't know the song and that's like CLASSIC country and I feel old. (reminded me of when PatD covered Kansas and me & Maryatha were loving it and the entire group around us didn't know the song.)
The Band Perry - I've always found TBP to be very meh; I can take it or leave it. But they put on a great live show and I like them more know. Their lead singer (Kimberly - apparently the boys are her brothers?) is adorable, and they were all super high energy and fun. They did If I Die Young, All Your Life, Postcard from Paris, and my favorite of theirs, You Lie. They also covered Free Fallin and Fat Bottom Girls, which again most of the crowd didn't know, but Tinsley & I did, and they did a great job.
Brad Paisley is my favorite. I have loved Brad Paisley for YEARS. And I've seen him a few times before, but it's been a while. He still puts on an awesome show, though. Scotty came out to sing with him during Celebrity, and the video for that (which isn't the original video, it must be something made for this tour) was HILARIOUS. Kimberly sang Whiskey Lullaby with him. There was a guy in an actual lampshade hat in honor of Alcohol. Some random dude and his buddy came up to dance with me and Tinsley after Brad said something during Then about hoping everyone in the crowd was in love or would find love last night. I ended up crying during Waiting on a Woman because they played the video on the big screen and Andy Griffith is in the video and the end of the song is him going off to Heaven to wait on his wife and it was SAD. (I'm pretty sure this was the first time I've seen the video since Andy Griffith died earlier this summer, and yes I am a sap.) They did the Time Warp instrumental from the Time Well Wasted album and showed this crazy animation that started with William Shatner asking to be rescued because he had been kidnapped by either Romulans or Kardashians. But I was so confused because the animation was Star Trek ships with Star Wars characters! :P Um. They didn't show the video for Mud on the Tires, which was unfortunate because my brother is in that video. And he played a bunch more of his songs, but I won't name them all.
It was an awesome show, and we had a great time, even if we did hit SEVENTEEN DIFFERENT WORK ZONES on the interstates on the way home. Made it home about 430 this morning. Funtimes. :)
Since we were late last time (due to traffic, we didn't get to the venue until the opener was already on), we left about two hours earlier this time (planning on having food before the concert) - and made great time, so we ended up with nearly two hours to kill before the gates even opened. So we went for drinks and appetizers and flirted with the bartender at Chili's for a while. We ended up in the center lawn section about five or seven rows back, which was great.
(Other than the people I was bitching about on Twitter. If you didn't see it, there was a couple who came right before the show was going to start and put their chairs down on top of someone else's stuff. Like, there was a big beach towel spread out saving someone's spot and this couple first put their chairs down on the edge of the towel and then ended up moving the towel altogether. THEN! Beside them was a blanket where there was a guy & his girlfriend & another girl, and the two girls had gone off somewhere, and the mom of this crazy couple just invites her kid to sit on this stranger's blanket. You could tell the guy was obviously not sure what was going on but he didn't say anything, just let the kid sit down with him and show him his DS. But when the girlfriend got back, she at first couldn't find the blanket - b/c there was a KID on it! - and then she had this really WTF look on her face and made her boyfriend move the blanket. So then the kid takes out another DS and was going around asking strangers to play DS with him. At one point during the concert, he was over in the next section of the lawn asking strange women to dance. He was probably like 7 or 8 years old. It was CRAZY.)
I knew Scotty McCreery was young, but I didn't realize he was a BABY. I mean, I don't watch American Idol, but I did know that he was still in high school because of the whole thing this past spring with him getting injured playing on his high school baseball team, but still. He's a baby. He's adorable, though, and his songs are catchy and young and fun, and it was good. One of the kids in front of us, probably about R&D's age, had met Scotty before the show and gotten his guitar autographed and he kept talking about how awesome Scotty is. It was cute. Btw, Scotty's song The Trouble With Girls? Totally a Davey song. That kid is gonna get into so much trouble when it comes to girls. Also, Scotty covered Travis Tritt's T-R-O-U-B-L-E and all the young'uns in the crowd were like, "uh, ok" because they didn't know the song and that's like CLASSIC country and I feel old. (reminded me of when PatD covered Kansas and me & Maryatha were loving it and the entire group around us didn't know the song.)
The Band Perry - I've always found TBP to be very meh; I can take it or leave it. But they put on a great live show and I like them more know. Their lead singer (Kimberly - apparently the boys are her brothers?) is adorable, and they were all super high energy and fun. They did If I Die Young, All Your Life, Postcard from Paris, and my favorite of theirs, You Lie. They also covered Free Fallin and Fat Bottom Girls, which again most of the crowd didn't know, but Tinsley & I did, and they did a great job.
Brad Paisley is my favorite. I have loved Brad Paisley for YEARS. And I've seen him a few times before, but it's been a while. He still puts on an awesome show, though. Scotty came out to sing with him during Celebrity, and the video for that (which isn't the original video, it must be something made for this tour) was HILARIOUS. Kimberly sang Whiskey Lullaby with him. There was a guy in an actual lampshade hat in honor of Alcohol. Some random dude and his buddy came up to dance with me and Tinsley after Brad said something during Then about hoping everyone in the crowd was in love or would find love last night. I ended up crying during Waiting on a Woman because they played the video on the big screen and Andy Griffith is in the video and the end of the song is him going off to Heaven to wait on his wife and it was SAD. (I'm pretty sure this was the first time I've seen the video since Andy Griffith died earlier this summer, and yes I am a sap.) They did the Time Warp instrumental from the Time Well Wasted album and showed this crazy animation that started with William Shatner asking to be rescued because he had been kidnapped by either Romulans or Kardashians. But I was so confused because the animation was Star Trek ships with Star Wars characters! :P Um. They didn't show the video for Mud on the Tires, which was unfortunate because my brother is in that video. And he played a bunch more of his songs, but I won't name them all.
It was an awesome show, and we had a great time, even if we did hit SEVENTEEN DIFFERENT WORK ZONES on the interstates on the way home. Made it home about 430 this morning. Funtimes. :)
