Crows in Frederick

The last stop on the 'summer tour' in in Frederick, MD at Harry Grove Stadium on August 15, 2007. Again tonight it is the Counting Crows, Live, and Collective Soul is back on the bill.
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.

Small town Crows

On August 14, I took in the Counting Crows show in Aberdeen, MD. This is a continuation of their minor-league baseball park tour. Also on the bill were Live and Low Stars. Due to the circumstances that follow, I wasn't about to catch Low Stars.

Hop on my choo choo...

I left work on the MARC train from DC as I do everyday. The only difference is that today, instead of getting off at the Odenton stop, I stayed on it to the Aberdeen stop. My plan was this:

• Take the train to Aberdeen - This worked out fine.


• Take a taxi to my cheapo, Days Inn Motel - Not so well.


• Get to Ripken Stadium a little early to make sure I see the Low Stars - Didn't happen.

Aberdeen...the walking tour
I got off the train, and looked for a taxi. I didn't see any and thought that I wasn't that far from the motel and could just walk it. My sense of direction failed me and I walked a mile in the wrong direction. I then went the right way, and it ended up taking me an hour, and walking 5 miles. I did get a couple of neat pictures while walking around though.

From 2007-08-14 Co...

I didn't make it to the motel until 7:00pm, the show started at 6:30pm. I checked in the motel, got a TAXI and made it to the show just as Low Stars were finishing. I eat some pizza, and Live came on. I decided to get down into the crowd.

This turned out to be a good move, as I had a BLAST! It's fun to hang out with young people some times. At the Def Lep show the average age was about 43. The average age on the floor was about 23. They had had a good time over the summer, gotten tan, not afraid to party a bit. Yup, being young again... But I digress. Being a lot closer to the stage gave me the opportunity to get some really good pictures.
Live
As I mentioned earlier, I missed seeing Low Stars, that's life. Live does put on a decent show, no complaints. Here are a few pics.


Crowd..
As I mentioned, the crowd was on the younger side, I grabbed a few snaps of the people around me, everyone seemed to have a good time.


Counting Crows
I have been following the setlists of the shows. In Wilmington, DE I was disappointed that they
talked about their new CD, but didn't play from it. They corrected this oversight in Aberdeen. In Aberdeen, 5 new songs! Out of 16 songs played, nice turn around. Some I liked, others not so much, like anything. I'm not going to bore you with the setlist, I'll jump right into the pictures of the Counting Crows! It's a bunch of them, but these are some of the best concert pictures that I've taken, so I hope you like them.

Counting Crows and others

The summer concerts continue!
On July 22, Teri and I went to the opening show of the Counting Crows summer tour in Wilmington, DE. This tour will take place in minor league baseball parks around the country. Over all it was a good time. I take issue with the Crows playing such a short show, they may have been on stage an hour. That's LAME for a band nowaday.
Anyway, below is a slide show of the various pictures I took. They didn't come out very good, I'll have to get closer at the other two shows that I will be at in August.
The slide show shows the pictures in the orer that they were taken. The first group is of Collective Soul (blonde haired singer), then Live, followed by the Crows. This is my first attempt to use the slide show feature. Leave feedback if you like it or not.

Concerts for the Summer of 2007

It's time to start getting back out there and hit some shows. There isn't any HUGE band that I MUST see, but the summer is starting to fill up. In order of appearance:

June 23: RUSH at the Nissan Pavilion. The Donk got tickets and Chris wants to hop on the ride down to the show with us. Chris will probably end up with better tickets and pay well under face.


As I labeled this in an e-mail: GEEZ-FEST!
Yes, finally the Geezer show that you have been waiting for! These bands wouldn’t sell out a state fair alone, but they will be all together for one BIG NIGHT! Saturday, July 21, 2007 at the

Baltimore Arena (1^st Mariner Arena, Civic Center, whatever you want to call it) get down with JACK-FM as the ‘JACK-Fest’ comes to Baltimore! It's JACK FEST-- featuring ZZ TOP...REO SPEEDWAGON...THE PRETENDERS...and THE STRAY CATS!

Assuming I recover from the Geez-Fest, the next day it is off to Wilmington, DE for the opening night of the Counting Crows show on July 22.


If it was just the Counting Crows, I wouldn't go through much trouble, but this is a 3 band lineup. Along with the Crows, Live and Collective Soul will also be on the bill. I will actually take in a couple more Crows shows on this tour. On August 14 and 15 they will be playing a couple of other minor league ball parks in Aberdeen and Frederick, MD. This should also be interesting too since I will probably train it to the shows right after work.

Last September, I bought tickets and had all intentions of going to the Virgin Fest show. Unfortunately, my appendix gave out earlier in the week and I didn't make it. But this year, I am on for the August 4 show.


Austin City Limits Music Festival - I really want to go to this show. I probably won't pick up tickets until I get there (or shortly before) and I will need to get things straight with stuff at work. But of all of the show, this is the one that I would like to see the most!