Retro Music Friday - We've Seen Hell.

OK, not really, but we came thisclose. We saw Dave Matthews Band Wednesday night at the Great Woods.

For those not familiar - Great Woods was the first name of the facility when it was built back in the day. Then it was called The Tweeter Center. Now it's called The Comcast Center. Due to my deep and abiding affinity for all things " Old School ", including frequent use of the phrase " back in the day ", I have taken to calling it Great Woods again.
I mean, I could go along with The Tweeter Center - that was OK for me. But the Comcast Center ? It just reminds me that Comcast pillages my wallet once a month with their outages fees for their somewhat-less-than-fantastic cable TV and Internet.

And - this is hilarious - they sell Willow Tree chicken salad there ( if you've not had Willow Tree - dudes -you are seriously missing out ) and there are random signs all over the pavilion advertising the sale of said chicken salad. The signs read " Makes Tweeter Taster Sweeter . "
I kid you not.
File that under Finding Porno In Your Everyday Life.

At any rate, Brock and I have some mad love for Dave Matthews & Co. We frequently listen to DMB while cleaning house on the weekends.
We've seen DMB twice before. Once ( 2004 ) at Great Woods and then (2006) at Fenway Park.
The '04 show blew.us.away. Sheer awesomeness.
The '06 show was good, however as conducive to baseball as Fenway is, it is by no means a concert venue. I think the novelty of seeing anything other than baseball at Fenway is what draws people in.

We knew we were in for it last night as soon as we pulled into the parking lot.

We were early for the show, (I mean, we could have gone in, but really - who actually wants to see an opening act ? ) so we decided to chill in the parking lot for a while. Looking back I think the highlight of our evening was people watching and eating burritos in car.

Brock looked around at the activity going on around us and said
" Oh Holy Shit - WE'RE OLD ! "
I'm glad he finally got the memo.

People, it looked like a Girls Gone Wild DVD mated with and Abercrombie & Fitch catalog.
If I had to hear " Like....oh my God !" one more time I swear, my ears were going to start bleeding. And all the girls ( and I mean girls ) had on the same uniform, which consisted of a strappy little cami, short shorts and flip flops. What do they call that....conforming to not conform ?

Things did not improve once we were inside. There was a young lady behind us that kept yelling " FUCK YEAH ! " every few minutes.

Then some other kids sat in front of us and started rolling their own, if you catch my drift. Then the people who actually had the seats in front of us showed up and kicked out the doob rollers. So we're all like - THANK GOD ! No judgement on doob smokers here...I just don't wanna smell it all night long. Then the kids in front of us proceeded to make out for the better part of oh...and hour and a half. I mean, I totally got it. They were probably 19 and hot for each other, but come on...get a room already. I don't think I would have minded the making out had they been at least more than 12 inches from my face.

Brock described our experience best when he said it was like Jimmy Buffett for 18 year olds.

People, we've seen the future....be afraid. Be very afraid.

BTW, this is Ants Marching live from Central Park. This song came out in 1994 - I was 18 and a senior in High School.

XO

Bunny.

P.S. A big Welcome To The World goes out to one Stetson Parke Martin - who was born on Monday. Congrats Martin Family !