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Tonight was Get Your Preak On at Pier 6, a pre-Preakness party starring Phil Vassar. Not particularly invested/interested in Preakness (or any of the other horse races), but PV is one of few country people I hadn't seen yet.
It stormed like fucking mad right before we left for the concert, so ick. Lefta round 6, made it down there by 6:45, doors were already opened (yay for not-GA seating). Chilled for a while - watched people struggle to find their seats (the A1 row throws sooo many people off, but it's ridiculous) and were surrounded by people in the wrong seats (seriously, you literally CLICK ON your seat when you pick your ticket, you have to have SOME IDEA). But, anyway, I digress...
The opening act was a band called Old Dominion, whom I had never heard of. They were pretty cool, though. Started at 7:45, played 11 song in 45 minutes. Don't know many of them - they did do a song called Day One that was pretty awesome. They also did The Band Perry's song (co-written by one of their guys, though) Better Dig Two and their song Chainsaw, too. Some of their own songs included Crazy As It Is and Wake Up Loving You.
Phil Vassar started around 9? With no set setlist for any of his shows, they pretty much played whatever the hell they felt like playing, mixed with some requests from the audience. The first few songs, everyone stayed in their spots. Pier 6 is usually really strict about keeping people out of the aisles and stuff, but after the first few songs, there was a rush on the stage, and we all kind of realized that there was literally no one from security around. I should point out that the place was only like half-full, which has never happened before in any show I've been at there, so... I'm thinking they decided to go for a skeleton crew and they just said 'fuck it' when everyone started leaning on the stage. It seems like PV encourages that, so... yeah. Managed to get up to the stage, too, which resulted in some awesome pictures and a couple of handshakes as PV ran down the line. Also got my ticket signed. Rather, squiggled on, because it's not really anything moderately resembling letters? Someone else started the signing by removing teir bra and tossing it to him? Everyone else was a little more dignified and just held out tickets/shirts/hands/etc. Also, damn, the man likes climbing all over/jumping off of his specially reinforced piano. Anyway, yeah. Managed to mostly keep track of the setlist:
For A Little While, In A Real Love, Carlene, Bye Bye*, Six Pack Summer, Love Is A Beautiful Thing, Just Another Day In Paradise, Last Day Of My Life, Black & Whites (I think, anyway?), I'm Alright*, That's When I Love You, Love Is Alive, My Next 30 Years*, Amazing Grace, Highway To Hell/Jesse's Girl (done by his band while he took a quick break), added Little Red Rodeo on when he came back out, I'll Take That As A Yes (The Hot Tub Song), (dunno this one...). Encored with covers of Billy Joel's Big Shot and Piano Man.
* = written by PV, but generally known associated with Jo Dee Messina, Tim McGraw, and Collin Raye.
Ended at like 10:45, which is 15 minutes before the venue curfew, so I thought he'd play until then, but no. Managed to get out and get home pretty quick, too.
Picture taking was awesome this time. Pier 6 is waaaaaaaay better lit that Rams Head and well, we were just as close, pretty much, but yeah.
the first one is Matthew Ramsey, lead singer of Old Dominion. I have better pics, but I was digging the blue lights. The rest are Phil Vassar.
It stormed like fucking mad right before we left for the concert, so ick. Lefta round 6, made it down there by 6:45, doors were already opened (yay for not-GA seating). Chilled for a while - watched people struggle to find their seats (the A1 row throws sooo many people off, but it's ridiculous) and were surrounded by people in the wrong seats (seriously, you literally CLICK ON your seat when you pick your ticket, you have to have SOME IDEA). But, anyway, I digress...
The opening act was a band called Old Dominion, whom I had never heard of. They were pretty cool, though. Started at 7:45, played 11 song in 45 minutes. Don't know many of them - they did do a song called Day One that was pretty awesome. They also did The Band Perry's song (co-written by one of their guys, though) Better Dig Two and their song Chainsaw, too. Some of their own songs included Crazy As It Is and Wake Up Loving You.
Phil Vassar started around 9? With no set setlist for any of his shows, they pretty much played whatever the hell they felt like playing, mixed with some requests from the audience. The first few songs, everyone stayed in their spots. Pier 6 is usually really strict about keeping people out of the aisles and stuff, but after the first few songs, there was a rush on the stage, and we all kind of realized that there was literally no one from security around. I should point out that the place was only like half-full, which has never happened before in any show I've been at there, so... I'm thinking they decided to go for a skeleton crew and they just said 'fuck it' when everyone started leaning on the stage. It seems like PV encourages that, so... yeah. Managed to get up to the stage, too, which resulted in some awesome pictures and a couple of handshakes as PV ran down the line. Also got my ticket signed. Rather, squiggled on, because it's not really anything moderately resembling letters? Someone else started the signing by removing teir bra and tossing it to him? Everyone else was a little more dignified and just held out tickets/shirts/hands/etc. Also, damn, the man likes climbing all over/jumping off of his specially reinforced piano. Anyway, yeah. Managed to mostly keep track of the setlist:
For A Little While, In A Real Love, Carlene, Bye Bye*, Six Pack Summer, Love Is A Beautiful Thing, Just Another Day In Paradise, Last Day Of My Life, Black & Whites (I think, anyway?), I'm Alright*, That's When I Love You, Love Is Alive, My Next 30 Years*, Amazing Grace, Highway To Hell/Jesse's Girl (done by his band while he took a quick break), added Little Red Rodeo on when he came back out, I'll Take That As A Yes (The Hot Tub Song), (dunno this one...). Encored with covers of Billy Joel's Big Shot and Piano Man.
* = written by PV, but generally known associated with Jo Dee Messina, Tim McGraw, and Collin Raye.
Ended at like 10:45, which is 15 minutes before the venue curfew, so I thought he'd play until then, but no. Managed to get out and get home pretty quick, too.
Picture taking was awesome this time. Pier 6 is waaaaaaaay better lit that Rams Head and well, we were just as close, pretty much, but yeah.
the first one is Matthew Ramsey, lead singer of Old Dominion. I have better pics, but I was digging the blue lights. The rest are Phil Vassar.
