9/29/03

I just had a huge entry written and I tried to save it…it disappeared.  Damn it all!!!!  So let’s try this again.

Dave Matthews Band in Central Park is something I will never forget.  I am so glad I decided to make the trip.

We got there on Tuesday 45 minutes later than we should have due to the rain and wind in NYC.  Becky met us at the hotel and we went for dinner at an Irish pub around the corner then spent all night bar hoping and at a comedy club.  We closed the last bar at 4 am, grabbed some breakfast and crashed.

Erin called Wednesday morning at 11:30 to say she had made it and was on her way.  By the time she got there we were ready to head over to Central Park to stand in line.  We fianlly got to the Great Lawn at 5:30 so we just sat around for 2 hours chatting, relaxing and smoking out cigarettes that we snuck in.

onstage: 7:20pm
Don’t Drink the Water
So Much To Say –>
Anyone Seen the Bridge? –>
Too Much
Granny
Crush
When The World Ends
Dancing Nancies –>
Warehouse (Stop-time Intro)
Ants
Rhyme & Reason
Two Step
Help Myself
Cortez the Killer *
Jimi Thing *^
What Would You Say
Where Are You Going
Star Spangled Banner (Stefan Solo) –>
All Along the Watchtower
offstage 9:55pm
Encore
onstage 10:00pm
Grey Street
What You Are
Stay
offstage 10:20pm

Entire show with Butch Taylor on keys
* Warren Haynes on electric guitar
^ outro of Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth”

I cried during this show….seriously cried.  The band played for 3 hours with such passion, big smiles on thier faces.  They were having fun and the crowd was feeding off of it.

After the show we ended up going to the bar we had closed the night before, BB Doyle’s.  We were there until closing again, 4 am.  Erin and Jessica left the bar and went to the airport for their 6 am flight, poor girls.  We got on the plane Thursday hung over, it was not pretty.

I am going to Chicago the weekend before my birthday to see some friends…and J of course 🙂  I need to go looking for some really fun bars to hang out at.  I plan on being there Fri – Sun and my friends want to hit bars both nights.

{{{Hugz}}}
PG