I raised my beer and sang along with:

Weekly Special: What concerts have you been to in your lifetime? Complete lists, even the ones you are now embarrassed to admit! As a bonus, include venues and which are your favorites. What one person/group, alive or dead, would you most like to see in concert?

Trying to reach back into the fog of my memory for all of the concerts I have ever been to is tough business indeed. High school was a mere 11 years ago but damn if I can't recall the specifics about some of the events that I paid money to go to. The kicker to all this remembering and re-remembering and google-ing lineups, etc. is that the names I would rather forget pop right up. Of course they do.

High school brought me my first ever concert: Live. It was at a small, outdoor venue and I was pumped. So pumped that I decided to crowd surf. After I recovered from the concussion that comes after getting dropped during said crowd surfing, I decided that that was one of those things you do just to say that you did, and then never do again.

Also on the high school list is John Berry, who told the crowd that his underwear was riding up, Harry Connick, Jr., who I got to oogle while my sister got his autograph afterwards, from like two feet away... nice!, David Allan Coe, Blind Melon, at a big music festival where I saw my first mosh pit but unlike crowd surfing decided to sit that one out, Kinchafoonee Cowboys, about a zillion times: see College.

My college days lasted a wee bit longer than your standard 4 year student so that's where most of my ticket purchasing lies. Three George Straight Country Music Festivals in three states which included: Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Dixie Chicks, Kenny Chesney, John Michael Montgomery, Asleep at the Wheel, Sara Evans, Brad Paisley, Alan Jackson and of course, three very large helpings of George Strait. Possibly this is where my appreciation for George Baby was nurtured... I also carried myself to a fourth state to see George a few years later (but still in the college time frame - I told you it was a while). Tied with good Mr. Strait as concerts attended in four different states is Chris LeDoux, all while in college as well. (Please be advised that I have attended college in two states.)

More college acts include: Kinchafoonee Cowboys, Arlo Guthrie, Hank Williams, Jr., Terri Clark, Allman Brothers Band and Mark Chestnutt. Three years of another country music festival had me singing along with Toby Keith, Hank Jr. again, Kenny Chesney again (and I started crying when he sang 'Back Where I Come From'), Dustin Evans, Charlie Daniels, Sara Evans and Martina McBride.

And what about post college, a span of five years? Umm... yeah, about that... Maybe not so much in the past little bit.

But on the agenda of 'to do before I'm way old' is singing too loud and dancing too wild and drinking too much at a Jimmy Buffett concert. A girl could just go bananas at a place like that, and that's what I plan to do. Preferably the venue would be somewhere hot and the drinks would be ice cold. J.B. just makes every thing so chill and 'island' and I could just float away to the sound of the steel drums. (One thing that I would not be chill with is the predominant activity at a Buffett concert. Much like the mosh pit, I will pass.)

I can hear it now: "Please remain standing for the singing of the national anthem of Margaritaville!"