Zach's First Rock Show
So my buddy Steve passed on two tickets to my for the Switchfoot concert here in town on Monday. Zach's never been to a rock show. He'd seen Jump5 a while back, but never something this loud. It was a good show.
Switchfoot took the stage at 9:25pm, exactly 2 hours after Zach's bedtime.
After repeated attempts to try to get him to wear ear plugs the show started.
Most of the time I couldn't tell if Zach was engaged or not. He sat there and stared at the stage.
Everyone once in a while he'd turn to me with a "wow! did you see that!? kind of look"
Those moments were:
- when someone in the crowd started crowd surfing.
- when john (or is jon) the lead singer jump up onto the bass drum and sang
- when the ultra bright white lights pointed at the fans turned on
- when the lights behind the band started flashing and dancing
- when he finished the extra large tub of popcorn
By the end of the show Z was leaning on me and fading fast. I asked him several time if he wanted to leave and each time he said "No!" and looked at me like I was a crazy person.
On the way back to the car he said, " I'll get my hearing back tomorrow Dad."
Yeah you will son.
So my buddy Steve passed on two tickets to my for the Switchfoot concert here in town on Monday. Zach's never been to a rock show. He'd seen Jump5 a while back, but never something this loud. It was a good show.
Switchfoot took the stage at 9:25pm, exactly 2 hours after Zach's bedtime.
After repeated attempts to try to get him to wear ear plugs the show started.
Most of the time I couldn't tell if Zach was engaged or not. He sat there and stared at the stage.
Everyone once in a while he'd turn to me with a "wow! did you see that!? kind of look"
Those moments were:
- when someone in the crowd started crowd surfing.
- when john (or is jon) the lead singer jump up onto the bass drum and sang
- when the ultra bright white lights pointed at the fans turned on
- when the lights behind the band started flashing and dancing
- when he finished the extra large tub of popcorn
By the end of the show Z was leaning on me and fading fast. I asked him several time if he wanted to leave and each time he said "No!" and looked at me like I was a crazy person.
On the way back to the car he said, " I'll get my hearing back tomorrow Dad."
Yeah you will son.
posted by mark at
4:13 PM
1 Comments:
sounds like it was a blast! i totally missed it. i knew it was coming, but it snuck up on me too quick or something and I forgot to get tickets. :-) concerts are one of my favorite pasttimes. :-) and, in my humble opinion, if I haven't lost my voice or my hearing by the end of the night, it really wasn't that great of a concert. :-)
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