So yeah, I’ve been completely negligent in my blogging duties.
We’ve gone to a ton of shows and taken very few pictures other than poor quality cellphone shots so I’m gonna have to document things hijacking content from Ken where possible!
After NINJA came a trip down to Atlantic City for the Regeneration Tour.
Maybe its the economy, the weather when we were there, or maybe its normal, but Atlantic City seemed sad and half dead. The boardwalk was just a huge cluster-F of people trying to squeeze money out of disinterested tourists.
Luckily, Regeneration Tour was top notch. Cutting Crew opened the show and played a handful of songs leading into “Died in your Arms” which was a pretty epic sing along.
Wang Chung was up next and made the mistake of saying one of their songs was new. No one would have known the difference. Anywho, Wang Chung was pretty good too and everybody had fun (tonight).
Then came Berlin. I didn’t know what to expect from any of the bands at Regen2009 but Berlin was more of a wildcard as they were only doing select dates. All that needs to be said is Terri Nunn is awesome and I’m really glad our date was one that Berlin played. I’d see Berlin again given the opportunity.
ABC had the unenviable task of following Berlin. They sounded good, but couldn’t match the energy or personality.
After Regeneration came Paramore + No Doubt the next week.
Some chick opened before Paramore, who we missed. Well, that’s a lie. We didn’t miss her. We intentionally got there after she performed.
Paramore were solid, Haley had a lot of energy but it’s hard to perform in daylight. Of course, that’s twice now we’ve seen Paramore in daylight (Bamboozle).
No Doubt had a really funky looking set that took them quite a while to get setup.
Gwen had a lot of energy, including showing off just how much spare energy she had by doing pushups at one point.
The following few weeks were mostly filled with family BBQs and stuff, up until last night. All that and more in Part 2 sometime soon!
