I saw 18 shows this year during #MyYearOfConcerts and figured I’d rank them all in one post to wrap up the year. Here we go! 18. The Church (Seattle) Sorry, The Church. It’s not you, it was me. I was in a lot of back/neck pain that day (and also exhausted from two months of …
December 31, 2023
MyYearOfConcerts has come to an end! And I suppose there’s some poetry in the fact that it ended with the band that was a huge part of my life for 30+ years…the band that gave me a world of friends I cherish to this day…the band that made me a published author…etc. I saw U2 …
December 18, 2023
You didn’t think I was gonna go all of November without seeing a concert, did you? 😁 MyYearOfConcerts continued last night in Tacoma with my first-ever Night Ranger show! It’s funny, when I told Cari I was gonna drive 3+ hours for this show, she was like… “I didn’t know you liked them THAT much!” …
November 18, 2023
Gotta admire a rock singer who doesn’t wear black from head to toe. 😄 #MyYearOfConcerts continued last night in Spokane when I saw my third overall Collective Soul show! I saw them about 15 years ago in BFE Idaho, then about 10 years ago at the county fair in Yakima — both were good but …
October 8, 2023
My feet are freezing. It’s 90 degrees outside in August and I’m walking barefoot on our hot back patio, but my feet feel like they’re suffering from frostbite. It’s been this way since my accident last September. Only my feet aren’t really freezing. Every so often, I’ll ask Cari to touch my foot. “Does that …
September 24, 2023
#MyYearOfConcerts (post #2 today!) continued Wednesday night when I saw Counting Crows in Spokane! 🥰 So I was pretty exhausted after the Billy Joel show and almost a week in New York City. We got home around dinnertime on Tuesday and the Counting Crows show was 24 hours later. TBH, I think Younger Matt would’ve …
September 14, 2023