I’ve been listening to oldie (but goodie) music this last week. It started with revisiting my Tori Amos playlist, and then I moved onto Metric, and The Rolling Stones (weird combo, I know), and this morning is all about Neil Finn. I love me some Neil Finn.
I saw Neil once back in like 2001-ish somewhere down in Orange County, when I lived in Cali. It was one of the beaches…Huntington Beach maybe. He put on an amazing show, and we were super close, like at a table right in front of the stage. (We waited hours in line to get such amazing seats, which is a thing my ex and I used to do). About half-way through the show, Eddie Veder showed up, and joined Neil on the stage, where they performed Stuff and Nonsense (and a couple of other songs). Ahhhh so fucking good.
Seeing Angels & Airwaves last weekend brought back a lot of live music memories for me. I used to see shows all the time – like several times per month. I’m not going to be able to get back to that given all my responsibilities, but I do want to make more of an effort to see live music (that isn’t DMB…lol). I saw that Grace Potter is coming to STL sometime next month, and I’m thinking I need to make that happen. I heart Grace Potter.
Sleater-Kinney, The Allusionist and Matisyahu coming to the Pagaent which is nice. Lizzo unfortunately sold out. And I’ve seen the Indigo Girls more than a person should admit. You guys have a nice line up coming through the end of the year. Of course, around here we balance out how much we want to see the show with what the venue is because I’ve gotten to a point where the mosh is less appealing and the comfortable seat with leg room is much more important.
I definitely prefer to be seated at this point. My days of being upfront are over. I may make an exception for DMB pit tickets if I can manage to score some.
Oh, and Grace Potter puts on a helluva show. Or she did a few years ago anyway.
I saw her open for DMB once and I was impressed. I’d love to see her again.