gatorcast from paul smith

On Friday night Jessica and I went to see U2 in Tampa.   We met Carol and John at the concert.  It was Jessica’s very 1st big rock concert.

Here we are in front of the “Space Ship” before they went on.    Bono says… You have a pirate ship. We… have a spaceship.”    And they did!

It was an incredible show. We actually never made it to our seats, we stayed right there.   The show was fantastic in that it felt and sounded like an arena show, but it was in a 66,000 seat stadium.  This make it 2 times I have seen U2 and I think this one was even better.   MUSE opened and rocked the house (stadium).   We were all very impressed with MUSE as well and plan to go out and download their music from iTunes.

Tonight Lisa I went to see Dave Mathews Band in concert at the Odome.   While huge fans in 1995-96 we really didn’t know any of the music.  But DMB has a very unique sound where most songs sound the same (sometimes good, sometime not so good)  Our consensus was that it was very loud jazz/funk.   It was a good concert, not stellar.  Too loud and the lights so bright we actually left a song early, plus it was a work/school night.   The videos played during the show and closeups of the band was really cool, it fact the best part.  However, after the show Lisa commented that the screens were cool, but none of the band members was pleasant to look at.  :>  I thought the violin & trumpet player were great. 

This shot was taken with Cameron’s Olympus FE-190 (6.0 Megapixel)  Our seats were in the second level, center stage.