Concert #1

We're concert goers, what can I say? I had never been to a concert (aside from Kingston trio my freshman year of high school, but I was the youngest fan there...) until I came up to college. Since then I have been to 11 concerts, in 2 years. So, Saturday night Chris Merritt, a local-ish band that we have seen before, played at Velour, a small venue in Provo. Callie, Emily and I had been planning to go since we found out about it long before school started, but things came up and Cal was unable to come with us. So Em and I invited our roommate Lisa and our friend Steve and they both actually wanted to come! I was surprised because they had never heard of Chris, but they were both eager to tag along. So we busted a move on over to Velour around 8pm, (P.S. if you ever go see a show at Velour go early, pay and get your hand stamped and then you get free food! They always barbecue out front before a show and it's worth the seven bucks to go early and get dinner and a show!!!) There were two other bands that opened before Chris, Parker and Invasion. Invasion was a bit harder rock than I prefer but I did enjoy some of their stuff. However, Parker opened and I was almost in tears during his first song. It was AMAZING!!! and he has a great voice. Check him out at myspace.com/parkersmusic. Listen to "Porch Swing," that was the one he opened with and had me crying.

Chris was amazing as usual. And since this was the second concert we had been to we knew more of his stuff and could really jam. Emily and I were oober stoked when he played "Tower of Sand" and "Dance Karate." We really got rocking to those (I"m trying to use cool terms to describe how much fun we had but I think I just sound retarded).

Lisa took a picture of Em and me up front dancing, but you can't really tell who we are, but it's still a fun picture!

Me, Steve, Em and Lisa (notice the sunburn from the football game...)