Nada Surf and Aaron Lee Tasjan, Black Cat
I've never met or seen a picture of Challenged so I thought about going around and asking anyone who fit my vision of him "Are you Challenged?" but there were just too many guys who fit the bill. You'd think I was in Baltimore or Richmond or something.
Anyway, Nada Surf made me smile as always. Would have preferred the sound of 9:30, but what are you going to do, they're losing their fan base to death and retirement homes.
They didn't have Doug Gillard (also of GBV) with them, but Matthew Caws is a nifty guitarist himself, and the keyboards they've added at some point flesh out the sound nicely.
Saw about half of AL Tasjan. Enjoyable opener, my wife really liked him.
I was over by stage right, 3rd or 4th deep from the stage. Where were you all situated? I was eyeing the couples in the audience to see if I could conclude they were you and your wife, but didn't really have any idea what to look for. Next time I will announce what I am wearing so we can find each other.
As I said in the other thread, I really enjoyed this show. And the drummer not only looks great for 56, he is a powerful steady force behind those tunes, and he can sing too.
I think I saw a tallish guy with short hair, glasses, and trimmed beard over in that area (I think with a woman but not sure) who I thought maybe was you, but looked too young to have been in law school when you said you were. If it was you, congrats on looking so young. I also wasn't sure whether you were there at all, based on your percentages.
We were maybe eight deep, center to stage right (in between Matthew and Daniel, the bass player). We dropped back to maybe 12 deep to avoid the body crunch but eventually back up to about eight deep. I had on my bright red pants, black glasses, shoulder length hair, and short trimmed goatee. We[re both about 5'9" and 50ish.
Oh well, yeah next time, definitely. Glad you enjoyed the show. Hoping they stick around for a while and you get to see them some more!
