Transportation was more certain for this show. My brother was attending the show with me. I take the MARC train to the Frederick station, he drives to Frederick, picks me up at the station, and off we go to the show. Yes kind of boring, but after walking around Aberdeen, I'll take boring. Long and short, that is what happen. We had dinner at Pizza Hut and it took a little longer then expected, but we made it to the show.
The Show
We arrived an immediately noticed that it was a lot of people there. For the other two Crows shows, there was a nice crowd, but nothing out of the ordinary. There were cars all over the place and the personnel on hand were trying to figure out where to put everyone. Once inside (Collective Soul was already playing) we looked around for a little bit, and I suggested going to the floor (it worked for me the night before). But this was different. There was a line of people to go onto the floor. It was crazy! We ended up finding some close seating, but as you can see from the pictures, we weren't on top of the stage by any means.
Live and Collective Soul were good and stuck with the previous setlists that they had done the other times I saw them. The Counting Crows, on the other hand, really mixed things up! The first four songs were the same from Aberdeen and I was worried. But then almost the entire remainder of the set was different from the previous night, and contained a bunch of songs I hadn't heard from earlier in the tour! I was very impressed! I know my brother wasn't a huge fan of the music, but I think he enjoyed the show as well.
The Audience
As I mentioned, it was crowded and folks had to wait in line to get onto the field.
Collective Soul
As I said, Collective Soul was pretty good, and they really enjoyed playing in front of this crowd, as the crowd appreciated them. Not the best pics, but here are a couple.
Live
Set seemed the same at the previous times. This does not detract from the fact they were very high energy and really into the crowd. Songs were familiar to the audience and it worked in concert between band and audience. A couple pics of Live.
Counting Crows
Very happy with the setlist! Here it is:
Michelangelo
Have You Seen Me Lately
Recovering the Satellites
Mr. Jones
Goodnight Elisabeth (no middle alts, but ending one's I've never heard) *
Another Horsedreamer's Blues!!!!!!!
Big Yellow Taxi
Accidentally In Love
Omaha
St. Robinson
Come Around
Black & Blue
Hard Candy
A Long December
Hanginaround
***********
Time & Time Again
Insignificant
Holiday In Spain
* Towards the end of Goodnight Elisabeth, Adam stopped the song to, what seemed to me, break up a fight. He said something like, "...this is a peaceful song. I was just about to get all dramatic and shit. You're ruining it!" He picked it up and got dramatic.
As for pictures, here are a couple, but they didn't come out very well.
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Ended up here because I was listening to Raining in Baltimore and the lyric says 'It's raining in Baltimore/50 miles east' and it got me wondering what lay 50 miles west of Baltimore. As it turns out, Frederick Maryland is exactly 50 miles west of Baltimore! Would have bet my house that they played it--maybe even as an encore. No dice.
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