Counting Crows

So glad everybody is still checking the blog (or is the following thing actually a thing? It never does anything for me...)

Anyway, I went to another night of summerfest, so you get another concert review (probably still few to no pictures, I hate looking for good ones, but I'll keep it shorter :D)

So let me start off with the fact that I'm a bigger counting crows fan than I am an Offspring fan, and have seen Counting Crows in concert 3 times now (the last two times I paid, this time it was free, which is the only reason I went, so that should give you a preview of my thoughts...)

I like Augustana enough, they are almost the same band as counting crows, and with the amount/frequency that they tour together, I'm starting to think they basically are.

Augustana was supposed to start at 9:30. They didn't. Instead we just watched the fireworks over the lake while we waited.

At 10 they started together with a fun song that nobody had ever heard of (see previous blog post), but it was STILL pretty cool/fun. It was just an upbeat throwaway song for fun. Ok. I can dig that.

Then they played "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby" and I almost died of happy. Best CC song ever.

Brief note about Adam, the lead singer of CC - at the last two concerts I was at, he was so messed up on stage that he forgot the lyrics/key and basically just started "artistically freestyling" (read: mumbling) through the songs for like 10 extra minutes... This time he didn't do that. It was cool. He totally remembered all the words (and it's a long song, so kudos). He did still freestyle, but in a cool way where it was just a little twist on the song.

Anyway, then he played "omaha" and "Mr. Jones" and the stage was set for a FAWESOME concert. Sooo close.

For the next hour they played a mix of:
a. random covers
b. a frickin rapper (Notar) came out on stage - wtf? Honestly, he was good, but not what I came to a CC/Augustana concert for
c. Augustana's non-hits.
d. Boston - Augustana's hit.

Seriously? Covers? Not even good covers? Ugh. And the rapper, like I said, was good. But he went for like 20 minutes per song...

People were leaving so fast that we started out standing right next to the concession stand at the back of the stage area (we got there late...) and by the time we left (spoiler alert) we were like 50 feet from the stage. No small move, and we didn't even have to fight for it.

So ya, we left. And I'll never see Counting Crows in concert ever again. That's three strikes guys. Three strikes. I <3>

Note - Crowd interaction score: very good out of 10. Much better than offspring who just yelled Beer all the time because it's milwaukee. We get it. These guys joked around with the audience and made sure we had fun, but they failed I guess? I dunno, not for lack of trying at least.

Sorry for another tl:dr

Can't wait for Lollapalooza! (GAGA!)

After we left we went to check out Modest Mouse finish up their set, it was fine, but I feel like going to see Modest Mouse knowing only "Float On" is what going to a green day concert knowing only "good riddance" would be like...