Waiting for the moon to come and light me up inside… August 22, 2006
Even through they are one of my very favorite bands, I had only seen Counting Crows in concert one time. A friend took me to see them at the Backyard in Austin for my birthday several years ago. It’s a relatively small outdoor venue with a dirt floor surrounded by trees, and it was the perfect setting to see the Crows. They played a good, long set and pretty much blew me away.
So when I heard they were coming to Starwood, the monster amplitheater here in Nashville, I was understandably thrilled. It had been too long. We bought lawn seats and made plans to meet up with some friends. I was pumped. I wasn’t thrilled about the choice of the Goo Goo Dolls as an opener, but figured with lawn seats we could get there around the end of their set and be good to go.
I called the box office yesterday to find out when the Crows would be going on, and was surprised when the guy told me 9:45. Seems a little late, right? Not for a CO-HEADLINING TOUR. The Goo wasn’t the opener. They were the first half of the show.
This did not please me.
Do you know what a co-headlining tour means for fans of only one band? A one-hour set. ONE HOUR.
This did not please me.
Now, that one hour was awesome. They played a very mellow, very August-heavy set. I was unsure about how the band would be in a big setting like that, especially when I had seen such a great show in a small venue. But that set in the lawn of an amplitheater at 10:30 on a rainy Monday, with the breeze and the dark and the Time and Time Again, was perfect.
They did a lot of my favorites: Long December, Holiday in Spain, Have You Seen Me Lately?, Omaha, A Murder of One. Two of my very favorites, Anna Begins and Round Here, were sadly left off the too-short playlist. They could have done three songs in place of the incredibly long rendition of Mrs. Potter’s Lullaby. Mr. Jones and Hangin’ Around were great, and they mercifully avoided Accidentally In Love and Big Yellow Taxi. Overall, I was happy with the song choices. I just wish there had been more of them.
But regardless of the short set or the drunk girls who clearly thought they were at next week’s Buzzfest (“Are y’all ready to paaaaaaaaaaarty?”), I was thrilled to be there. There’s not much better than having the chance to hear the music that’s important to you played live.
Even if you have to sit through the Goo Goo Dolls to do it.
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good to hear the crows did a good show. wish that show was coming near me. was the goo no good? i like a handful of their songs.
when we saw the crows on the co-headlining tour with mayer, adam was drunk, they played ‘big yellow taxi’ and generally stumbled through a forgettable set. the time before that, in ’03 when they headlined a festival in new orleans, they did great. still wish i could hear ‘angels of the silences’, cause i was in love with ‘recovering the satellites’ for most of the 96-97 school year.
the counting who?
i get to see them next tuesday…i was glad the tickets were really cheap because I knew it would be a co-headliners concert. I was hoping that CC played first so I could get home early. An hour doesn’t seem long enough though…even when sharing the spotlight.
The great thing about CC is that they change the setlist every night, so you could see them three times in one week and get three different shows. They have that going for them, at least.
This is really an aside, but one time I went to a Rage Against the Machine concert that was opened by Wu Tang Clan. Buh? These are two . . . divergent fan bases.
if i have a goo goo dolls song in my head at any point tonight, i’m blaming you.
sick.
(and i don’t want the world to see me, cause i don’t think that they’d understand…)
Brandi…this concert/set sounds a HELLUVA lot more redeeming than the last time I saw them play!
CC is my favorite band and a TON of friends and I are going to see them September 9th at Smirnoff in Dallas. I hope to heaven they play “Time and Time Again”…I’ve never heard that live.
Thanks for the heads-up!
you know what sucked and i almost got screwed…anna begins has a link to get free lawn tickets to the shows in a few select cities like nashville, charlotte, houston. I was able to get them in time and sell my the tickets I had purchased to people in line for tickets.
Yeah, I saw that about the free lawn tickets… AFTER we went to the show. But our radio station ran a thing several weeks ago to buy $10 lawn seats, so it wasn’t bad. Free would have been better though!