Okay, so I’m fully aware of the
fact that $60 for concert tickets in no way fits the general parameters of this
blog (20 buck outing for two people), however, for a special occasion every now
and then, I think a splurge is nice.
The special occasion was Terri and
I’s 1-year anniversary (two weeks early because that’s when the concert was)
and a night with a questionable weather forecast. To help cut some of the
costs, I purchased the tickets in advance and at the actual venue due to the
markups of bullshit “handling costs” when you buy them on-line.
To surprise Terri and make the
cheap seats exciting, I put the tickets inside a card which I slipped inside
another card and then took that and put it in envelopes (like a Russian nesting
doll sort of idea). It took a while for
her to open all the paper and cards which made for the great photo op seen
here:
So, although I spent more than my average of $20, I didn’t want to break the bank on one outing so we had the lawn seats at Riverbend Music Center to the Lady Antabellum show with Darius Rucker and Thompson Square as openers. The concert started out really well. Thompson Square sang their song that is on the radio called “Kiss Me or Not” and one other song and then Darius Rucker came on stage.
Darius Rucker’s name rings a bell
because he was one-half of the band called Hootie and the Blowfish. He was the
‘Hootie’ of the two. So Hootie played a fabulous set with all his new hit songs
as well a couple from his career as the duo formerly shorted to “Hoot and
Blow”. (Okay so only I called them Hoot
and Blow and only just now in this post.
Still, my point is that nicknames are fun).
Sadly, however, at the end of
Hoot’s set he did a cover of Prince’s “Purple Rain” which sounds like this:
“Puurrppllee rrrrrraaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnn”. And then his set was
done. Great, next! However, there was a moment and then there
was thunder. Next, I looked at the skies
and Terri took this photo of me:
and then another moment passed and then the skies opened up and the rain poured and the lightening striked (cue Garth Brooks song). Finally everyone stampeded towards the limited number of exits in a way that makes you realize how people die at venues like this one.
In the end though, I wasn’t terribly disappointed. We got to hear Hoot even though he was really suppose to be the opener and got to play in the rain. I think lawn seats are extremely underrated. There is an amazing camaraderie on the lawn. I mean…who wants to sit in front row seats with back support if you can sprawl out on a blanket?! Who would want to see their musician idol sweat up close if you can avoid that body odor by watching them on a BIG SCREEN T.V.? Who, I ask, would want to be close enough to feel as if they are sitting in the woofer if they can listen to the concert from a comfortable distance without damaging one’s hearing?
Enough of rousing the broke-ass masses, here is the cost analysis:
-Two Lawn tickets for Riverbend
Music Center:just under $30/each or $60 total
-Two stupid expensive sodas- a sad
$13
-two huge smiles like these:
-two huge smiles like these:
TOTAL costs for special event=$73
