I’ve been insanely negligent in my blogging.
So let’s see…
At the start of July we saw Offspring at Sayreville Ballroom.
They bring a lot of energy and pack a lot of songs into a small time frame.
At the end of July, we saw AC/DC at Giant’s stadium. I’m glad we went and it was a real experience, but we left during the encore, and I’m glad we did. The high/drunk factor was extremely high that night and we avoided a ton of traffic by skipping 2 songs. Overall for being as epic a band as AC/DC is, I was disappointed.
Next up was Cruefest.
Godsmack was really, really good. The drum battle was awesome and they did a little medley of covers interlude which was a lot of fun. Despite being from Boston (and even mentioning that they were) they were able to work a crowd who was clearly there to see Motley Crue.
Motley Crue had an interesting set and their performance was pretty good… but during their 4th song, heavy rain and lightning sent us scurrying for the car.
At the very end of August, we drove up to Hartford with Paul and Jen, met up with Jane and Ken and saw Weezer + Blink-182. Sadly, due to traffic we missed Taking Back Sunday. They were just finishing their set as we walked from the parking to the venue.
Weezer performed well, but somehow I personally had a hard time getting into that show.
Blink had a lot of sound issues where the vocals and guitars seemed really washed out. The rain that threatened all that day held off though, so we had fun hanging out in the lawn area.
A week later we went up to Cape Cod for a few days. The accommodations were…. well the location was good and the amenities (pool, beach, wifi) were good, but the room itself was down right awful. The door had a half inch gap all around allowing in a draft of bone chilling 50 degree sea air. The bed was a fold down. While down, the room was… just a bed. The shower was awful.
But we had fun. It rained a lot, but we bummed around Provincetown quite a bit, ate good food, and did a lot of people watching. All told, a nice little 2.5 day escape from work.