Last night Mike and I went to a Blue October concert.  It was pretty much the best concert I’ve ever been to.  We had a lot of fun.. Despite having to stand outside for 30 minutes, and then stand inside for the next 3 hours, in one place.. my body hurts from that one...Feeling my age today that’s for sure.. Luckily I have a massage appt in an hour, so I should get taken care of The opening band was out of Seattle, named The Blakes.. they were good, not sure if I’d buy their album, but it was fun to watch them They were on for about a half an hour, then Blue Octobers roadies came out and did all of their equipment stuff, sound checks, etc.. We were about 4 feet from the stage, so it was amusing to me to see all of that.. Fun stuff really.. Then the band came out at 9:30 and played a 90 minute set.. it was awesome.  I think the best part of it was that it was the lead singer’s birthday, so that was fun.. it was also the last show on their tour, so they really put themselves into it.  This show was a lot different than the show we saw in April and that made me happy.. There’s nothing worse than paying for the same concert twice..  They really do put on a great show.. I got a few pictures, but not many… My camera wasn’t being cooperative and my flash (it flashes like 3 times, it’s insane) was pissing off the bouncer chick w/ a spikey mohawk.. Since I valued my life more than photos, felt it best not to take anymore and just stand back and enjoy the show..

We did however have a mini-scuffle with some drunk brawd that came up during the opening act and was just being stupid annoying.  Some lady near us yelled at her because the drunk brawd was trying to buy her DAUGHTER a drink.. then she was trying to talk to the 13 year old girls standing next to me (who were surprisingly NOT annoying) and finally left.. She came back a little bit later and tried to nudge her way up in front of us, but 13 yr old girl #1 and I kept pushing her back, and finally I told her very loudly “there is not enough room up here, stoppit” and she got all pouty and stood next to Mike and I and was just annoying… She was the only person all dancing around waving her arms in the air like an epileptic.  After she elbowed Mike and I a couple of times he yelled at her to back the eff off… she finally got the hint and left.. man, she was annoying… But other than that, awesome show

Here are some of the pictures I did manage to take..

Justin (Lead singer)

Justin walking out onto the stage

Justin with guitarist CB Hudson (left) and bassist Matt (right) in the background

You gotta love a guy that’ll wear a pin stripe suit, with chucks(not pictured)..

CB Hudson (the 3rd..) the lead guitarist (yum)

that’s about the best of what I got.. we were super close so the lighting was harsh… I took a quick little video in the beginning, but we were too close to bouncer chick.. and after watching the video I’m glad I didn’t keep recording, as we were so close to the speakers, the video sounds like crap.