Musical Weekend

This weekend was very exciting for us. Back in the spring we bought tickets to see Dave Matthews Band with Willie Nelson opening. The concert was on Friday night in Tulsa. Dave Matthews Band has been my favorite band for as long as I have thought about who my favorite band is. The only thing is that I had never seen them in concert. I have never been a big concert goer overall. Then, a couple months ago we found out we were going to get to go to Farm Aid. Margo was going to go to represent her work and we were going to get free tickets. The crazy thing was that it was this same weekend but on Sunday and in St louis. So after the concert on Friday in Tulsa, we drove Saturday to St Louis for Farm Aid. This particular post is going to be about the Friday night concert, I will cover Farm Aid in my next post.

We went to the concert Friday with our friends Evan and Emily and Steve and Kathy. It was a lot of fun to go with good friends. It was really cool to see Willie Nelson since he is such a legend. I like some of his music but it is not something that I listen to often. His part of the concert was pretty good but was not super exciting for me.

However, I was super pumped to see Dave and he did not disappoint. They are so dang good. It is pretty funny how excited people get to see him play, they go crazy. He put on a great show and did some great songs. To make things better Tim Reynolds was playing with him. I had forgotten how awesome of a guitar player he is. Dave also has a couple new horn players playing with him and the trumpet player (Rashawn Ross) is unbelievable, I was in total awe. There were three main highlights for me at this concert. 1. Dave scatting- I love to hear him scat. He does it at his concerts, I have seen it on his concert dvds. He is really good at it and it is really cool. 2. Willie Nelson came out and played and sang a song with Dave. They did Grave Digger together. It was great. 3. All Along the Watchtower- they ended the show with this song (with a little stairway to heaven mixed in). I realize that this is not Dave's song, he is just covering it. However, I do think that this could be as close to musical perfection as you can get. If you have never heard them do it, get the version that is on the Live at Red Rocks cd and listen to it.

I wanted to also tell you about a funny observation we made regarding the difference in Dave Matthews drummer and Willie Nelson's drummer. These are pictures I found on the internet so I could show you what I mean.

Willie Nelson's drummer


Dave Matthew's drummer


All in all it was a really great concert. We also got to meet and hang out with our friend Emily's family on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning which was a lot of fun also.

Be sure and stay tuned for the next blog post about Farm Aid because it was great and had a great unexpected thing happen, I might even be so bold to say...a highlight of my life.