Concerts

1. Stone Temple Pilots.

I saw the Stone Temple Pilots in Denver Colorado at the Red Rocks Theatre in July 2008.  There are many reasons this concert was one of my favorites.  I think first of all it was because Stone Temple Pilots will always remind me of one of my closest friends and as we used to listen to quite a bit of STP together. She was living in California when I went to this concert and was not able to join me, but I got to take the next best person in the world; my little sister. She was 15 when I we went, and I was excited to be there for one of her first real rock concerts.

Before we left for the concert me and my sister, Veronica went over our list of songs we hoped they would play.  We must of lucked out because they played all of our favorites including, Lady Picture Show, Plush, Piece Of Pie, and Creep.

This concert also happened to hold one of my proudest moments in watching Veronica grow up.  The guy behind us kept yelling “play Man In The Box”.  He must have been in his early 30’s so I was greatly impressed when my 15 year old little sister who was barely even alive when Stone Temple Pilots were popular turned around and politely informed the guy that Man In The Box is actually in Alice In Chains song, not Stone Temple Pilots. It was then that I knew all my years of babysitting her had paid off as she is a musically savvy in many different genres of music.

2. Dar Williams

I saw Dar Williams in June of 2007 in Grand Rapids Michigan.  I was blessed with the chance to see Dar Williams with one of my closest friends who had also introduced me to Dar.  There is nothing spectacular about a Dar Williams concert. There are no light effects, and costume changes, there is just Dar and her voice.  To some this may sound boring, but it was a very intimate singer song writer type concert. It was an outside venue and it was just turning dusk in middle June. The weather was perfect, the company was perfect, the crowd was small enough to see and hear everything perfect and Dar was amazingly humble.  She interacted with the audience and there was a connection made. This concert will be relived in my memory time and time again.