This weekend I went to see D@r Williams at a small benefit concert given at a local high school. My sister is friends with her sister, so we got very good tickets. It was a nice evening; just Dar and her acoustic guitar. Her albums seem to be more and more "produced" as time goes by, and while I still like them, I loved just hearing Dar and her guitar, very simple. Plus she told a lot of funny stories.
I've seen her once before, in either 1996 or 1997 when I was in Bloomington, Indiana, at an even smaller venue. It was before her 2nd album was out, and again, a very intimate evening. I really prefer going to see concerts where the performer(s) does something more than just play their songs. Either telling interesting or funny stories, or the history behind the songs, or doing extra stuff. I feel like if they just play the music the way it sounds normally, might as well stay home and listen to the record. Er, CD.
I haven't even been to that many concerts. I dug out my saved concert tickets last night (I am a major packrat) and I found: Steve Winwood, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Who, the Violent Femmes, Don Henley (twice), the Eagles (Hell Freezes Over tour), Blue Oyster Cult, Barenaked Ladies (5 or 6), Sting, and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Speaking of Lynyrd Skynyrd, at the Dar concert people were yelling requests and of course someone yelled out "Freebird!" People started laughing but someone behind us didn't know what that was, and the guy next to her said "It's from this band Lynyrd Skynyrd, it's like, metal". METAL? Kids today.
