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Post by Wyvernwings on Jul 26, 2007 13:20:29 GMT -5
Haha the only concert that I went to worth mentioning was a Kid Rock concert... I'm sure I've talked about this one a million times though haha See, when I was little my favorite song was "Stop in the name of Love!" I used to know all of the motions haha.
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Post by Meluivan Indil on Jul 26, 2007 20:10:34 GMT -5
My favorite song was always "Roll On" by Alabama. And dang if I didn't go and marry a truck driver.
M.
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Post by Lady Idril on Jul 27, 2007 11:13:51 GMT -5
Touche, M. Wy, I've only heard a few Kid Rock songs, but I like him. I'm probably going in circles with conversation, as per usual, but when I was younger I loved Friends in Low Places" - Garth Brooks (but, prude that I am, I never liked the long version.) "Life's A Dance" and "Sold (Grundy County Auction)" by John Michael Montgomery, "One Boy, One Girl" - Collin Raye... a bunch of Dwight Yoakam... Obviously the now-classics: George Strait, Tim McGraw, Alan Jackson, Kenny Chesney... Oh and one song I loved that I don't think made it very far was "Baby Likes to Rock It" by The Tractors. My mom or aunt (I don't remember...) got me the cd just for that song, I was completely crazy about it. It's funny, last night Ace of Base came on the radio and my sister and I started singing along to it, and I realized I had an incredibly extensive musical childhood. Country and Ace of Base. That's pretty interesting...
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Post by Meluivan Indil on Jul 27, 2007 13:56:03 GMT -5
You can go in circles all you want, Idril. I just love remembering all this stuff.
I actually wore out an Ace of Base cassette tape because I listened to it every morning when I'd go walking. A seven mile walk everyday tends to wear out a tape quite quickly.
But anyway, back to country music. I have only been to two concerts in my lifetime. First was a Ray Stevens concert at his theatre in Branson. My favorite song of his is "The Mississippi Squirrel Revival"
And then I went to a Garth Brooks concert back in 1993. I waited in line 9 hours for tickets and we ended up in the nosebleed section. But it was the best concert I could ever imagine. That man knows how to put on a show.
I remember a big scandal that went on about him a few days before that concert. He had done a concert a few weeks before and there was a little kid there that was dying and wanted to come back stage to see him. But his promoter would only let five kids in to see him. So the kid didn't get to go backstage and he died a few days before the concert I went to. It was in all the papers. I guess Garth didn't know anything about it and he fired his promotor and gave orders that he would see any sick child that came to his concerts no matter how long he had to stay after the concert. He was really torn up over it. And when he came out on stage the whole place just erupted. He started crying and he said that we had probably heard about what had happened and he had been afraid that we would all hate him for it but he was very touched to see that his fans knew him well enough to know that he wasn't that kind of guy. Then he said that he had never been given that loud or excited a welcome in any town he had ever played in, including the huge towns like Dallas and such and it meant the world to him that we were all behind him when the world seemed to be against him. We were in Springfield Missouri in the college auditorium which seated less than a 10th of the shows he played in Dallas. So that was saying alot.
I don't know if it was his high emotions or our cheers and such but I've seen at least 20 of his concerts on tv and I have never seen him give that wild and energy packed a performance before. I'm just very happy that I was there for it and that we all showed him that we believed in him.
M.
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Post by Lady Idril on Jul 27, 2007 21:29:59 GMT -5
Wow, that's so amazing. Poor Garth. Seems like he had a lot of drama going around for the majority of his career's height. I don't remember that, but I was an itty bitty at the time. When I think of him, I always think about a concert I saw on tv when he threw his water bottle into the audience, smashed his guitar and then threw the pieces to the audience - and I believe he even crowd-surfed for a bit there. He was definitely a wild entertainer. I think he really established a reputation for that sort of thing.
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Post by Meluivan Indil on Jul 28, 2007 12:08:07 GMT -5
He did all of those things at the concert I went to, plus they had wires hanging from the ceiling all over the place and he'd run and grab one and swing out over the crowd and then back again. He was just utterly amazing.
Oh and Martina McBride opened for him and it was right after she had her first big hit and was still pretty much a nobody. She was a good performer too.
M.
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Post by Lady Idril on Jul 30, 2007 1:41:12 GMT -5
Oh the concert video I saw, if I remember right, they had Garth hooked up with a harness and he flew over the audience. Definitely a crazy man.
My mom went to see Barbara Mandrell, I think, when she was little, and Lyle Lovett opened for her - he was a nobody then, apparently. That's got to be something to have seen somebody before they were famous.
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