10.02.2008

i am the rain king

What do you call a birthday gift with five months of anticipation attached?Tickets (in May) to the Counting Crows concert (in October). It was worth the wait. Highlights:

>The concert starts at 8:00. Adam Duritz is onstage at 8:00. No frills, no bullshit, no introductions. Except he did take a moment to explain that two band members, Dave and Charlie, weren't present because their wives/girlfriends had babies over the weekend (a bizarre coincidence). In lieu of the two Crows, the Augustana band (also on tour) stepped in. The resulting band = what they dubbed "Augustana and Everything After Dave and Charlie leave" (their first album was titled "August and Everything After"). Love it.

>Soul that leaves me speechless and lyrics that never cease to amaze. Anyone who knows me has probably heard me say before that Counting Crows songs are poetry put to music.


>At the end, Adam states that he doesn't understand encores and thinks it is a waste of time to walk offstage, wait
for a minute and come back on. So he says they will just play a few more instead. And they proceed to do a folksy (yet spectacular) rendition of "Cecilia" that would have made Simon & Garfunkel proud.

A big shout out is in order: Thanks Trey and Nick (and Mom) for the tickets. Thanks Nick for coming with me (but too bad you didn't win those backstage passes, aha).

1 comment:

Trey said...

I wish I could have come.

I'm glad you guys had a good time though.

= )