The show was a good one, at least from what little I could see from the lawn. Ended up running late, and heard that 95 north was bumper to bumper as of 6 pm, so I took 29 up to 175 and went and parked in the mall. Walked through the woods, and was in. Seeing as how that was the worst possible time to be arriving, 30 minutes before the opener, I was suprised at how little traffic and hassle there was using the route I did. We passed the S Entrance road exit on our way to the 175 exit and it was massively backed up. I'm glad I decided not to deal with parking at merriweather itself. Also getting out we had absolutely no traffic. All in all a pleasant first merriweather experience.
Tom played almost all really well known hits, and it was a group singalong the whole time. He had one hell of a keyboardist though, really enjoyed that. Black Crowes were spot on musically, but moved around a lot less than I thought they would. Would love to see them in a smaller place, the crowd was certainly there for Tom and not the Crowes.
