August 10, 2009
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Crash Into Me
We had another busy weekend. On Saturday, the Architect and I went to VA to see the Dave Matthews Band. DMB has been one of my favorite bands since I was little so I was happy to get to share a concert with him. Live music has always been amazing to me. I’m mesmerized by it. I may be partial but DMB is definitely one of the best bands that I’ve seen in concert. This time, they did a cover of the Talking Heads’ Burning Down the House. They do a great cover of Jimi Hendrix’s Watchtower. This time they interspersed it with a bit of Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven. It was so awesome. In concert, they like to go into big long, dreamy jams. One of their songs almost lasted a full 20 minutes!
Sunday, Beef came over to hang out. The Architect made dinner for us. We had prosciutto wrapped melon for appetizer. Our main dish was gnocchi with chicken and spinach salad. For dessert, we had lemonade pie. It was delicious and a nice way to get ready for the week.
Do you like live music? Who is the best band or singer you’ve seen?
Comments (21)
A FABULOUS show was outside…Yonder Mountain String Band. They kick ASS. It was fun to watch them all take a shot of something strong right before their last song…
that must have been nice
. So far, the best live performers I’ve seen have been Goo Goo Dolls, Maroon 5, and John Mayer.
i love live music..unfortunately i’ve never really been to an official concert yet. The closest i’ve come to are house bands at local open mics covering other people’s music..which is great to me. That sunday dinner sounds delicious though. There were like 4 or 5 concerts going on around the area this weekend and i missed all of them
. Glad you had fun though. peace
Music is almost always best experienced live. Sometimes I even like country as long as those strings and skins are really vibrating. But no canned backing track, please.
I used to see a lot of shows but not so much since money and time flew south for the long, interminable winter. One of the best live bands I ever saw was Yes. Yes, I said Yes. Saw them three times. Tool was over the top. Rush always delivers. Bruce Cockburn. Tori Amos. Oh yeah Smashing Pumpkins killed on the Gish tour – they had to turn the house lights up when the audience nearly rioted. I saw Red Hot Chili Peppers when Hillel Slovak was still alive and I thought they were going to be the next Led Zeppelin. Saw them a bunch of times after that.
Best ever was Crash Worship. Saw them three times. It was like catching a beautiful disease.
I haven’t been to a concert in years. Jumby took Son and I to Willie and Dylan a few years ago. Before that, well, ’80. I used to go to the CS symphony on occasion. I like street music. Saw a fun group a few months ago, but nobody wanted to stay. I like music…
Whoa….your architect sounds like quite the gourmet cook! Move over, Julia!
Wilco, hands down. Saw them at Virgin Mobile Fest last summer and they’re one of my favorite bands. They were so amazing and it was a beautiful day (only 82 degrees on Aug. 9!) and it was heaven. One of the other great shows we saw that day was the Foo Fighters, they were last that day of the festival and they were great too. Other notables include, Mates of State, Brandtson, the Strokes, Denison Witmer and Sufjan Stevens. Denison and Sufjan played at a coffee shop I used to work at (and my then-boyfriend owned) so it was incredibly intimate and I got to make their coffees. Brandtson (a not-well-known Ohio band) was also great and I’ve seen them three times. I have their signatures and I’m pretty sure they broke up last year… very sad.
Sounds like DMB put on a great show and your Architect has some mad cooking skills. He may have missed his calling to be a chef.
@Loonsounds - Ooo, what kind of music is it? Maybe bluegrass or something?
@I_am_hiphop - Yeah, I’m a big believer in that you don’t have to go to a huge show to listen to good music. Local bands even if they are just doing covers are still awesome!
@Roadlesstaken - I’ve seen Maroon 5. That was a fantastic show at a really small venue! I saw them probably about 5 years ago at Frostburg when I was visiting my boyfriend at the time.
@dirtbubble - So many of those bands sound like they’d be awesome to see. I’d love to see Tool, Smashing Pumpkins, Tori Amos, or Rush!
@travelerblue - One thing I love about this area is that in the city, there’s a lot of street musicians and many of them are pretty amazing!
@i_was_there_and_back_again - @SoullFire - We joke that if he ever gets tired of his day job that we should open a restaurant and name all the dishes after famous architects. Haha!
@FillTheSpace - I’m majorly jealous that you got to see Sufjan Stevens in such an intimate show. I would absolutely love to see him live someday!
@TheCheshireGrins - oh cool! I saw them at Columbia’s Merriweather Post Pavilion.
As embarrasing as it sounds, I get too distracted by everything else going on at concerts/sporting events and barely pay attention to the featured event
I adore DMB, i am not a big concert person but they seem like a good band to see live though. Thanks for the Bday wishes!
Does sound like you had a great weekend!!!
My favorite live music is sitting around our home or yard and making our own music!!
Sadly I’ve not seen many bands on stage, but one of the coolest events I’ve been to was the 50 Winters Later concert in Clear Lake Iowa back in February…. somewhat somber being the 50th anniversary of the death of buddy holly, ritchie valens and the big bopper, but great music all around.
i don’t do the concert thing but i love live music outdoors. vegas had a place i used to love going by.
I am assuming “Beef” is not one of those nimble Yoga/Pilates instructors! Nice book selection! I may hang my hat in Tuscany next summer at a villa with friends for part of the summer. Adler has a number of books set in Italy. She and I apparently have similar tastes. BTB
Dear Meg,
I spent a lot of time going to concerts in the 70s and 80s. Full concerts at the Forum, Universal Amphitheater and Long Beach Arena, and smaller shows at the clubs like the Roxy, the Whisky a Go Go and the Starwood in Hollyweird.
Nothing in a long time however. I was looking over a ticket for a Queen concert I attended in around 1977 or 78 and the prices were $6.50, $7.50, and $8.50!! A friend went to a Stones concert a couple of years ago and paid almost $300.00!! I don’t know what DMB charges, but $300.00 is just too steep for me. I think I’ll stick with the memories.
Re: Your earlier entry about cash for clunkers. I’ve been reading that a lot of folks out here in autocentric SoCal are trading in their “cliunkers”, so on the surface the program seems to be working temporarily at least. We used to have a great public transportation system (the long lamented Red Cars, which stopped operating in the early 50s) You could go all over SoCal on the trolley. However, GM and Firestone, if memory serves, were instrumental, along with local government, in dismantling the system in order to build “freeways” and promote the automobile. (selling more GM cars and Firestone tires, or course.) Now every time there’s talk of a subway or light rail extension the cost is in the billiions. (And by 2010 people will be paying “tolls” on some of the “free” ways.)
Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool
@firewillconsume - I’m a people watcher so I understand how easy it is to do that!
@CiaoBella810 - They’re awesome. Hope you had a good b-day!
@sir_spamalot - It sounds like a cool event though!
@MySecretLoveAffair - Live music always sounds better outside
@buildthebridge - Hah, the ironic thing is that she’s very fit and very athletic. It’s just a funny name to call her
Sounds like a GREAT concert. I’d like to hit one of theirs someday. I love live music. Sting has been both my best and worst concerts…the best in 1988 and the worst in the late 90′s. The first was so intimate, and his rendition of Roxanne to only a clarinet was haunting. The later one was all high tech, little Sting, and background videos of pole dancing. It was a waste, though Annie Lennox opened for him and that was good. I’ve enjoyed Norah Jones at Wolf Trap…though she giggled too much when she spoke. Made her seem so young. And I used to hit Gipsy Kings and Allabina annually at Wolf Trap until I started teaching and they started having their concerts on weekdays. My sangria recipe came about due to Gipsy Kings concerts. My friends and I used to go to a live jazz duo in Reston at the Hylton’s bar…talk about cosy and wonderful. Steve wants to take me to a Kenny Chesney concert and I think I’ll like it.
I love live music, but have had very few opportunities to go to concerts. (Hubby’s not fond of them.) Last concert I attended was A Belle & Sebastian in CD about 2001 (I think). I really enjoyed it, which amused my son and his friends — apparently I’m a head bopper.
I’m waiting for my son’s new band to start some gigs so I can go get my ears blasted away. I never got to hear him live with his band in Denver.
I once affectionately gave the funny name of “Beef” to a girl and it didn’t go over so well. I don’t think she will ever forgive me! –BTB