Taunting me with emails!

I love music.

I love live music.

There was one point that I was going to a LOT of different concerts within a year span...I went as far as Tennessee for 2nd row seats to a concert.

Well, I outgrew that phase...mostly. I still love live music and I still attend concerts here and there. I have tried really hard to not go to as many shows as I use to back in the day.

Well places like House of Blues, the Joint at the Hard Rock, Live Nation and Ticketmaster have been taunting me with emails left and right of all these different artists I would love to see live. The summer time is coming, it's standard of course. But I am holding strong and I'm not doing it!!

So to feel better about it all, I got nostalgic and found some old concert photos. My best seats (and therefore shots) were back when I was still shooting film...so I don't have those right off hand. Except for this first one. I randomly found it mixed in with some old concert photos.

It was shot on film and scanned on a not so great scanner, so forgive the pixelation! This is back in the day with Maroon 5 tickets were only $15-20!! haha! Miss those days!






This is one of my favorite concert pictures and funny enough has no artist in it. It was also shot on my point & shoot camera. This is when I went to see Jet, which is one of my best concert stories!



I might have to try and find some more old concert photos! This was fun!

Sara B - Live!!!

I love Sara Bareilles. I think if you go back to a previous post, you will see, I've been a supportive fan! She came in town a while ago, opening for James Blunt. And well, I was not planning on going to that concert. I was sorely disappointed what I thought was my only chance this year to see her live, in town.

Well a few weekends ago, she had her own headlining tour! And an awesome opener to boot! Marc Broussard!

So here are some pictures, from my iPhone (aka=blurry)from the show. I forgot, since it's been ages since I've been to a concert which venues are cool with cameras. Well The Joint at Hard Rock is one that is. Shucks.

Marc B.



Aaand Sara B!!! :)
Okay, see these guys at the bottom of this picture, the one on the left...not a cool person at all. Here are a few reason why:
1) Five minutes before Sara comes on, he lead himself, girlfriend and two other people through the crowd of people that had been waiting all night, got there early to be near the front and shove his way to the front and made a couple of people so upset that they left their prime spots because he wouldn't budge. He was in their face and pretty jerky to them. It was really crappy of him to do that.
2) the crowd shifted after the first couple songs and he ended up basically behind me and Lani. So we got to see him white boy dance and white boy "woot" and obstruct our view due to both.
3) I save the worst for last...like I said, he brought his girlfriend, and they brought their PDA. It was R-I-D-I-C-U-L-O-U-S! They were all over each other, and the worst part, she was pretty short and he had a goatee. So if his hands weren't all up in her hair, it was attached to his goatee. It was gross! Their worst PDA moment was when she jumped into his arms and had her legs wrapped around his waist (I'm not kidding) and they were making out, spit, hair all over the place, just gross and they only got into this moment was because the song was slow and romantic "sounding" but the song was about breaking up and heartache! HELLLOOOOO!
Sara playing a guitar. She also played a ukulele in her encore. She's awesome!
There were a few other crazies in the section of crowd we were standing in. It was nuts.

This last picture is during the most sentimental song for me on her cd, "Gravity". Actually the whole album is attached to a very important part of my life. It's such a good album. If you seriously have not gone out and bought it yet, what are you waiting for!

Duran Duran

I saw Duran Duran Saturday night. Lani invited me when her friend said she didn't want the tickets. You know me, I love concerts.

So here are a few pictures from my iPhone....

This is right before they came out. Everyone was SUPER excited. I was kinda just standing there watching 30 somethings and older going nuts. I don't know too many Duran Duran songs, less than 5. But it was good times.

10 minutes into the concert I look at Lani, she looks at me and we give each other this look of "do you smell thaaat?" it was not a good smell. It stunk! And there is no smoking in at The Joint anymore so we were confused. I just went back to listening/watching and then a minute later Lani screams in my ear, "the guy next to me is lighting up a joint (at the Joint...get it?!?) that's why it stinks so bad!" I was already getting a headache from him just pulling out the thing so I went and told a security guy and he came over few minutes later and the guy didn't take it out again. Thankfully. I was at a concert a few years ago in California at an amphitheater and I was a getting a major contact high/headache from someone smoking joints all night. It was not fun. But no one could figure out who it was. They ruined the concert for the bunch of us around them. So I wasn't going to let that happen again so I was a big fat fink and told on him. Sorry dude. But that was rude. (I did not mean to rhythm that just kinda happened.)


They asked everyone to pull out their cell phones, I thought it looked cool, so I tried to get a picture. Don't know how well it turned out because it did look a whole lot cooler in person.


Near the end of the show they had everyone waving their arms back and forth. I started cracking up. It looked hilarious to me for some reason. I haven't seen that happen at a concert since the late 80's/early 90's. I flashed back to New Kids on the Block. This is the crowd "waving their hands like they just don't care". It was awesome.