On Tuesday night I went to a concert at the Bank of America Pavilion in Boston. It's very close to the water and easily accessible by the T. The Pavilion is basically a giant tent that seats 5000 people. It's open to the warm summer air and so it's great to go hear some music, see the sky change color as the sun sets and to feel the air get cooler as night descends.
For this particular show, I went to see Parachute and Michelle Branch open for the Goo Goo Dolls. Overall, the concert wasn't as good as I had hoped it would be, but the Goo Goo Dolls are a band I've been interested in seeing live for a while and now that curiosity has been satisified. They were good and it was nice to hear many of their familiar hits. They did, however, also play songs from their CD that came out last summer, too, so this wasn't a total washed-up tour, but the biggest audience reaction was from the classic favorites.
One of the problems with playing the old and new songs together was that, to generalize, the old songs are harder punkier rock whereas the newer ones are more acoustic alternative radio listening so it made for a sort of bi-polar set list. Besides the occasionally strange song juxtaposition, I guess it just felt like some extra spark was missing compared to other bands I've seen. As I said before though, I'm still glad I saw them.
Summers to me recently have begged for a concert or two, especially ones at venues where you can enjoy the weather at the same time. Last summer, in Michigan, I saw Colbie Caillat and Sheryl Crow at an open air venue and that was fun. Getting a ticket last minute on Craigslist for $15 made it even better. Alternatively, I also saw the Scorpions that summer, so don't go making too many generalizations about my music tastes...even I've tried and it's pretty hard...
As far as summer, it has been incredibly warm here this week and a bunch of last week, too. Boston, yes, is usually humid during the summer, but I don't know if there's been this long of a spell that has been this hot in quite a while. Today (Friday) the high is supposed to be 99F. I wonder if we'll make it into the triple digits or not. It seems as if we're certainly not alone in the heat department though; on Facebook, a Detroit radio station posted that it hit 100 there for the first time in fifteen years on Thursday. Wow.
P.S.
There won't be many photos on the blog until I get another camera. I accidentally knocked mine off of a table here at Sloan and turned it into a camera shaped paperweight. Does anyone have recommendations for inexpensive but good digital cameras? I've been looking at the Panasonic Lumix series...
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