Rascal Flatts Concert
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csi_sanders1129Dad and I left around 4, made it to Merriweather (again) just before 5 (traffic on a Sunday is soooo much better than on a Friday). Grabbed dinner at the mall and wandered for a bit before heading across the street to the Pavilion.
Had to pick up tickets at Will Call, and gates were supposed to open at 5:30, but that came and went. Didn't get in til just after 6 (I suspect sound-checks ran late, given the testing123 thing that was going on and the lack of stereo-music playing) and then even when we did get in, they didn't let us down to the seats til nearly 6:20. Finally got seated (awesome on the rail seats, yay!) and had to wait til 7.
Some girl named Kristin Kelly was opening. Never heard of her and wasn't impressed. Dunno what she played, only played 30 minutes.
Little Big Town was the other opening act, they started at 7:45. They were cool. Fun and silly. Their lighting was not conductive to picture taking (red is an awful, awful back-lighting color, blast them). They played: Front Porch Thing, Little White Church, Bones, Yor Side Of The Bed, Sober, Born This Way (Lady Gaga Cover), Bring It On Home, Tornado, Self-Made, Pontoon and ended with Boondocks. Played til 8:45 or so.
Rascal Flatts started at 9, played til about 10:30. They were cool, even if they did a lot of moving around. Hard to get pictures of. The catwalk thingy out in the pit helped a lot, as did the raised bits of their stage. They played: Banjo, Summer Nights, Fast Cars & Freedom, These Days, Come Wake Me Up, and Hot In Here. Took requests from the audience and played snippets of My Wish, I Melt, and Prayin' For Daylight. Then Stand and Why Wait. Into snippet covers of Lean On Me (Bill Withers) and Open Arms (Journey), into Broken Road, drawn out (but impressive) drum/guitar solos that led into Me & My Gang, then Life Is A Highway and Here's To You. Encored with What Hurts The Most and then did a mash-up of Boston's Foreplay/Long Time with Kansas' Carry On My Wayward Son and Free Ride by the Edgar Winter Group (I think?) which was just awesomely awesome.
Got some good pics, got home fairly quickly.
Had to pick up tickets at Will Call, and gates were supposed to open at 5:30, but that came and went. Didn't get in til just after 6 (I suspect sound-checks ran late, given the testing123 thing that was going on and the lack of stereo-music playing) and then even when we did get in, they didn't let us down to the seats til nearly 6:20. Finally got seated (awesome on the rail seats, yay!) and had to wait til 7.
Some girl named Kristin Kelly was opening. Never heard of her and wasn't impressed. Dunno what she played, only played 30 minutes.
Little Big Town was the other opening act, they started at 7:45. They were cool. Fun and silly. Their lighting was not conductive to picture taking (red is an awful, awful back-lighting color, blast them). They played: Front Porch Thing, Little White Church, Bones, Yor Side Of The Bed, Sober, Born This Way (Lady Gaga Cover), Bring It On Home, Tornado, Self-Made, Pontoon and ended with Boondocks. Played til 8:45 or so.
Rascal Flatts started at 9, played til about 10:30. They were cool, even if they did a lot of moving around. Hard to get pictures of. The catwalk thingy out in the pit helped a lot, as did the raised bits of their stage. They played: Banjo, Summer Nights, Fast Cars & Freedom, These Days, Come Wake Me Up, and Hot In Here. Took requests from the audience and played snippets of My Wish, I Melt, and Prayin' For Daylight. Then Stand and Why Wait. Into snippet covers of Lean On Me (Bill Withers) and Open Arms (Journey), into Broken Road, drawn out (but impressive) drum/guitar solos that led into Me & My Gang, then Life Is A Highway and Here's To You. Encored with What Hurts The Most and then did a mash-up of Boston's Foreplay/Long Time with Kansas' Carry On My Wayward Son and Free Ride by the Edgar Winter Group (I think?) which was just awesomely awesome.
Got some good pics, got home fairly quickly.
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Date: 2012-09-03 06:22 am (UTC)(On the other hand: wtf is Joe Don even wearing? Definitely not what I usually expect from him.)