The History
* Alabama & The Oakridge Boys - Stegman Collesium (still a PROUD Alabama fan!)* Rod Stewart Unplugged - Lakewood Amphitheater (with Joan F. and her mom made us listen to polka music on NPR on the way there...)
* Counting Crows - The Classic Center, Lakewood Amphitheater, Chastain Park, The Tabernacle, House of Blues (Myrtle Beach)
* Lilith Fairs ('97-'99) - Lakewood Amphitheater (This includes Jewel, Sheryl Crow, Indigo Girls, Chantal Kreviazuk, Meredith Brooks, Fiona Apple, Paula Cole, Emmylou Harris, Queen Latifah, Ks Choice, Kendall Payne, and others I can't remember)
* Sarah McLachlan - Gwinnett Civic Center, Lakewood Amphitheater, The Fox
* Don McLean - The Classic Center
* Tori Amos - Chastain Amphitheater
* Counting Crows/Live - Lakewood Amphitheater/Verizon Wireless Music Center
* Our Lady Peace - The Cotton Club, House of Blues (Atlanta)
* Dido - Variety Playhouse
* Jennifer Nettles Band - B.C. Field Party, Lilith Fair, Cat's Cradle, Marz
* Joan Baez - Variety Playhouse
* Jump Little Children - Many, many, many times at Georgia Theater, Variety Playhouse, Marz
* Dave Matthews Band - Walnut Creek Amphitheater, Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
* John Mayer/Counting Crows - Walnut Creek Amphitheater
* Howie Day - House of Blues (Myrtle Beach)
* Coldplay - Walnut Creek Amphitheater
* John Mayer - Phillips Arena
* The Get-offs, Nick Freitas and Dave Dondero - Hemlock Tavern (San Francisco!!!)
Favorite Show: That's like picking a favorite child! For all around sheer joy, I'd have to say one of my favorites was the first time I saw Sarah McLachlan at Lakewood Amphitheater. I had a complete and total hysterical Beatles-esque reaction.
Dream Show: I'm going to cheat and pick and living and dead choice. For the one now departed, I would have to say Elvis. I don't care where, but even more than The Beatles, I'd love to see Elvis live. I think that I would be absolutely head over heels in love with him and nearly drown in the frenzy of a live show.
Living artists, I'd have to say David Gray. He's definitely one of my favorite artists - at least in the list of CDs I'd want to have if stranded on a desert island. I'd love to see him at The Fox (I heart The Fox) or the Tabernacle, which is one of my favorite venues. Close seconds to my top acts to see are Keane, Ray LaMontagne and U2 (for posterity).
Really, though, I love concerts so much, I'm game for whatever - there's nothing like the overcrowded, beer/bong smelling, sweaty rush of seeing your fav band with a bunch of strangers. When the lights go down and the opening chords strike. Wow. That's the ticket.
5 tips left at the bar:
Awesome list! I knew you wouldn't disappoint.
Damn. I knew you had been to a lot of concerts, but wow! Fantastic list.
Y'all are going to think I am sooo lame. Just wait.
What a great list!
Somewhere, Temp, I think I still have the photo of you, me and Niki with the stolen 99x poster after we met Adam Duritz. Those were the days!
And, Pen, thank you. You make me feel sooo cool. :)
OMG - totally forgot we stole that poster!
I remember driving to Lilith Fair (is that one L or two? I have used it both. anyway.) I remember driving to Lilith Fair in the "party van" the first time all singing along to Sarah and Indigo and the then Tim's face when we saw lesbians making out. Priceless. So much fun.
Remember the lines in the bathroom? Ridiculous. They should've opened up both Men and Women's for the ladies.
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