Spent Saturday and Sunday afternoon and night down in Carson California seeing Dave Matthews Band at The Home Depot Center. Yet another double dip in concerts for me lately, and in attendance for both shows was the lovely Shannon. For both days we had great floor seats, front row in the third section middle on Saturday, and on Sunday we were in the second section middle.
I hadn't been to a Dave Matthews concert in about 4 years prior to this weekend, and remembered enjoying them a lot more. Maybe it's my paradigm shift in general philosophy, but I have become unaccustomed to thousands of strange individuals dancing (very poorly) in place walking around in bare feet on spit, beer and sweat covered grounds. Yes many of the "fans" were nice people but each and every conversation they attempted to have with us involved all of the other recent shows they had gone to (very Phish and Dead Esq) or why we aren't hitting "the smoke" with them.
I know I prefer rock bands playing small intimate gigs and ice cold beer, but other than the music I didn't enjoy these concerts. The band played great and spending time with Shannon is always tops, but the people took a lot away from my experience. To repeat, I DID enjoy the music, the band can play. But I can't tell you how many times we were chastised because we got to both shows late and didn't "tailgate" with everyone else. We had actual seats, we didn't want to see Jason Mraz (opener) and didn't see the need to get to the venue at 4:30 for an 8:00 start time. ugh, and these people say LA rock scenesters are pretentious.
If I go again I'll do my best to get some luxury box seats, behind the glass.
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