At least as far as Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre goes, there is really no concert that can top Dave. The most common complaint about the venue is its lack of sound, as evidenced in Radiohead a couple months ago. Not so here. All of the instruments more than make up for what is obviously not a very acoustically-sound venue (a pun hidden in there..?). I can only imagine what it would be like to see Dave in an actually decent setting. Quite certain it'd blow me away.
I managed to weasel my way down to the front, and then from there hopped a small fence and got into a damn good section of seats right behind the pit. They were definitely the best seats I've had at Verizon, although all my prior experience comes in the Lawn. But even so, it was the dankness.
The song selection was good. I would have liked to hear a couple more classic songs, but that's just me. I must admit that I haven't been keeping up with Dave that much lately, and I didn't recognize a couple of his newer tracks. They were good though. Just wish I could have sung along to them, which I did to every single song I knew. When a song comes along that I know by heart, I like to sing it very loudly and proudly, sending a message to the rest of the people in the crowd, "Yeah, I'm a Dave fan. A big fan. Look at me, I know every word. EVERY FUCKING WORD! FUCK YOU IF YOU DON'T! YOU MUST NOT BE A REAL FAN!" But then the next song comes on and I don't know it and I just swerve around and maybe open and close my jaws a couple of times to give the effect that I may be singing. It's an endless cycle.
This concert was definitely better than Radiohead. And now, I shall set about downloading more Dave Matthews. Night.
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