Awesome concert weekend (I was off sick yesterday so it feels like a Monday today) so long review post below coming....
Last Saturday was the Alt-imate tour featuring 3 big bands from the 90s alt rock movement, Live, Bush, and our Lady Peace. What a fucking show this was. I saw Live last year and enjoy some of their music still to this day so I knew what to expect, but while I loved Bush as a kid, they really never kept my attention after their initial success, but it was Bush who won the night if you ask me.
Let's start with the opener, Our Lady Peace. The place was EMPTY for them. I think that's got to be the worst part of being the opener for a 3 act national tour in these big venues, it's just very empty for when they start. Kind of weird, feels so personal when there's no one else around and you can see the band's eye's just like looking around. Well, they sounded pretty good and played a new song they have yet to record
Stop Making Stupid People Famous. They've never been a band of interest for me, I was totally cool with showing up on time to check them out and they didn't win me over, it's just not my music, but I did think they were solid and to come out and play new music, I respect that. Shortly after they finish a couple shows up to the seats next to me and says they are here to see them
Next came Bush. For one, the energy. Gavin (the singer) has a lot of energy. You'd think from watching them that this was a young band looking to prove themselves. I really enjoyed that energy. The crowd was into it. They have so many good hit songs and everyone hit the right spot. I've had a few songs stuck in my head after this one (it's like the sound of winter...) . But maybe the coolest part, and lucky for me, I took a smoke break into the lawn halfway through their set and started chatting with some randoms, really cool talks and fun atmosphere out on the lawn, next thing I know, Gavin leaves the stage and walks up to the lawn. I kind of just stand in my spot, not running over, which was a great call as he turned left and broke through the crowd and came right up to me. It was all so quick, but it's like he was following the smoke smell I had created
Anyway, gave him a pat on the back as he sung "It's the little things that kill" walking right by me. Absolutely amazing concert moment and will definitely be in my top 10 this year (and if not, it will be a better concert year than I can ever imagined) Of course, I got it all on video:
https://twitter.com/Cramx3/status/1140347010735849472I won't lie, I was maybe on too high of a cloud to come back down for Live. I thought Live was fantastic, but just really couldn't top what came before. Both Bush and Live played 70 minute sets, so it was like a coheadline thing, but Live played some songs I didn't see last year. They sounded tight and the huge crowd was into it all night. I think Dolphins Cry might have been my favorite of the night, but they also did covers of Losing My Religion and Paint it Black that were cool.
The thing about their set though is that the people in front of me started to get on my nerves. Well apparently I was getting on theirs. They clearly didn't like that I was recording a lot of the show. Everytime I pulled my camera out, I could hear them talk to each other, look at me, and laugh. It was a bunch of older couples who were the only people in the section sitting down. Not that I care, they won't bring me down, and I was behind them so clearly not in their way or anything. Anyway, I did do one dick thing which was purposely shine my cell phone light into their eyes during a Live song that called for everyone to turn their phone lights on. It made it into my video and you can see how badly it pisses them off
if you want to find it. But the real reason I even post about this was because after the concert had ended, I figured I'd go chill in the lounge at the venue while it clears out so I could call an uber (it's really hectic getting one right after shows end). As I am walking into the lounge, there's the entire crew of peeople making fun of me during Live's set. They see me, they start laughing again. I've had enough, I don't remember what I said exactly, but along the lines of "you get a good laugh at me?" which immediately got them to turn serious. Funny how that works as they kept denying it, but then they said they thought I was a fan of Jerry. Huh? Jerry? Who? Turns out one of the guys with them is a big NYC sports radio guy. Jerry Recco from WFAN's Boomer and Gio in the mornings show! In fact, I used to listen to him a lot. But being radio, I had no idea what he looked like. They thought I was trying to get pictures or video of him and was a super fan stalker type!
then they admit they were making fun of me and Jerry bought me a beer and took a picture to cap off the very fun evening:
Anyway, concert was a blast, got to see Gavin of Bush up close, got a beer from a sports radio host, things were good for cramx3, here's the full video experience:
Live, Bush, Our Lady Peace LIVE @ PNC Bank Arts Center
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