I've interacted with others on the platform who say they have been to hundreds of concerts. We probably don't quite hit that level, but we are working on it!
The advent of smartphones has made it exceptionally easy to document these memories for future reminiscing. I was going through some of my photos and videos the other day and it prompted the idea for this post.
I remember sometime within my last year on Steemit someone created a tag for concert photos. I can't find it now, so instead I am going to use the #bozzlife tag I put on most all of my posts and maybe a couple of other ones (okay exactly four, we all know how tagging works right?)
I need to apologize right away for the quality of my photos. Since we attend a fair number of concerts we can't afford the "sweating distance" seats of the performers. This means a lot of pixelated photos in low light.
These were from the P!nk : Truth About Love tour. It was a fantastic show which included the acrobatics you see here and even some of her classic songs. It's actually kind of funny that she still plays her first hits because she fully admits she only recorded them to fulfill her contractual obligation. They weren't really the style of music that she wanted to be doing. Now that she is a big star and has more pull, she is actually putting out the kind of music she wants to be.
Another fun fact about this P!nk concert... Although she uses some pretty coarse language in her albums, she refrained from using it during the concert. She acknowledged that many people in the audience were young girls who looked up to her so she instead sang the "radio edit" version of her songs. I felt like this reduced the impact on songs such as "Perfect", but I fully understand why she did it.
These were taken during the Sugarland : Incredible Machine tour.
The show above was before her baby and the energy level was much higher. The Incredible Machine album was a slight adjustment of their sound vs the previous albums they had put out. I found it to be a natural and welcome evolution of their music and it continues to be my favorite album of theirs. Their latest release after a short hiatus is a continuation of the sound the created for Incredible Machine.
These shots were from a Train show that we attended. If I remember correctly I think they were the opening act for Maroon Five. I am pretty sure we left early and didn't really listent to Maroon Five though I can't quite figure out why that would have been now.
I wouldn't say I am a huge fan of Train's music, but they have always impressed me with the way that they are able to just come back out of nowhere and have a hit. They were all over the charts when they first came out with "Meet Virginia" and "Drops of Jupiter". After that, they kind of faded into obscurity for about a decade or so (maybe it wasn't that long), then boom!, along comes "Hey Soul Sister" and they are on the map again.
Their ability to find a song with a catchy hook is undeniable. I do remember that this concert was from their "Save me San Franciso" tour which was an album that had a ton of great songs on it.
This was probably one of my favorite concerts. I have seen The Doobie Brothers, The Moody Blues, Ringo Starr, Todd Rundgren, Chicago, Journey, but getting to see Neil Diamond is one of my proudest moments.
He is a classic songwriter and put on such a great show. It is kind of sad when you see artists like this because you know they have too many good songs to fit into one two or three hour set. It makes you a little nervous, because you know you aren't going to be able to hear them all.
Despite that fact, Neil covered most of the ones that I was looking forward to and it was just a great show. The weather was a little stormy and since we were sitting on the lawn we got to watch all of the people slipping and sliding down the mud on the hill.
The sing along classics like "Sweet Caroline" seemed to go on forever as he ran through the chorus close to six times before closing the song. No one really seemed to mind though, it was just a great evening of enjoying some timeless music by an extememe talent.
I intended to include some videos in this post, but it seems to be getting pretty long. Instead, I will throw a "part 1" to the title and continue on with this post tomorrow. I hope you stop back to see some of the other shows that
