@ Nissan Pavillion. Counting Crows is on of my all time favorite bands
so when I heard they were coming to town w/ Maroon 5 and Sara
Bareilles I knew I had to check it out. So I bought tickets invited a
friend and off I went. The show was awesome Bareilles played a short
set but was really good and has a surprisingly high quality voice,
it's a shame that so many artists can't sing live that I'm surprised
when I see one that can. The time between artists were unusually long
averaging 30-45 minutes, for a venue that stops shows @ 11p thats a
lot of valuable time being spent doing nothing.
Maroon 5 was on next, I have to suck up for Adam Levine's falsetto, I
love his lyrics but that high pitch can get old fast. They did a great
Beatles cover of Oh! Darling from the Abbey Road album. They played
the usual suspects; Sunday Morning, She Will be Loved, Wont Go Home
Without You etc. I love that they have so much energy when they
perform. The nice thing about a band like Maroon 5 is that @ only two
studio albums they have enough music to headline an event but not so
much that you don't get to hear you favorite tracks because they were
lost in the multitude of music in the artists catalog.
Last was the Counting Crows who played a really efficient set.
Sometimes with the Crows you don't get to hear your favorite songs
because their catalog is so extensive, but that night they played most
of the classics. They played a few tracks from Saturday Night Sunday
Morning their new cd but not too much, their new songs are good but
people want to hear Rain King, Mr. Jones, Last December etc, I wish
they would have played Good Night LA but hey you can't play everything
every night.
Top Memorable Things:
Paying $30 bucks for premier parking
AC in car watching people stumble over the rope fence between the
annex parking lot and the main parking and seeing one girl flash a
"show" and one busting her tail
Group of 7 preppy women who wouldnt sit down during the Maroon 5
performance and couldn't rock on beat
Weird family who bought their very young children to an adult concert
and were upset about the language
Same family; Dad embarrasses family and amuses crowd by dancing
ridiculously @ the beginning of the Maroon 5 set until his wife made
him sit down
Woman next to us whose shirt had nipple lighting, hilarious!!
Adam Duritz who I swore was drunk confusing the crowd by breaking into
Rain King in the middle of Mr. Jones and then coming back to Rain King
to finish the song. I swore he was drunk or high when he did it. But
it worked okay.
End of the night some woman where go-go boots drukenly trying to
navigate throught the loose gravel parking lot w/o killing herself
