I will fondly remember this year as the year I went back to the big shows. I have spent so much of my life listening to and enjoying live music. Especially the past several years through my show fresh tracks, I have spent many nights enjoy great local and national  bands, at small local venues around the upstste. One thing I had kind of pull back from was the big Arena show and out door shows in the summer. But this year has been different. With so many bands getting towards  the age where they might not be on the road that many more times, I decided to catch some shows I would probably not gone to just a few years ago.

       I felt like I was to old or I’d seen so many concerts over the years that I just didn’t have the interest. It wasn’t the shows themselves as much as it was the Hassle. The drive, the crowds, the heat, and all the other crap that seems to come with going to a big show. But for some reason, this year it just seemed like the right time, also having a girl friend who’s big into alot of the classic rock bands that are touring these days has helped alot. Her enthusiasim has been infectious, I’ve found myself really enjoying the whole “mob mentality” again. Being a small part of a huge crowd all doing the same thing at the same time, not even thingking about the facts that you and your clothes are soaked in sweat, your ears are screaming and you are surrounded by crazies spilling 10$ beers all over themselves and you as the crash face first into the grass in the lawn area!. I let me say this too. I dig the lawn seating, you sometime there’s a very special artist you want to be closer too, Like Def Leppard, my GF adores them and just had to be close to “her Boys” as she refers to them! She had the time of her life and you know what, I did too not only did the band suprise me, but watching her have such a good time, well I couldn’t stop smiling!

          Look I’m no spring Chicken and i have back and leg problems that make it hard to just get through a day sometimes. But to all my fellow middle age rockers let me say this, pop a few aleeves, drink a whole bunch of water and give a good old fashion  rock concert a try once in a while, heck take the ear plugs too, that kind a helps with the screamers that might end up near you.

         I just figured something out this summer, I’m still NOT TO OLD TO ROCK!