Luke and I went to see Dashboard Confessional Friday night. I love Dashboard concerts...we've been to 4 or 5 of them together. It was in a really cool place for a concert: Clutch Cargos in Pontiac, MI. It's an old church converted into a club/concert venue. It's not much bigger than a school gymnasium, with a small balcony on the 2nd floor.

Now for the too old part.....

Reason 1 - Dashboard is a pretty mellow concert scene. His music isn't really hard or fast, so the crowd isn't a mosh pit or anything. Which is good for me. But, crowds of any kind are overwhelming to me! I hate being bumped into and funky smells, and cigarette smoke blowing in my face.

Reason 2 - There were 2 opening bands....so DC didn't come on stage until pretty late. And I'm not what you would call a "night person".

Reason 3 - When DC did come on , there were so many people moving around, and lots of tall guys right in front of us. I couldn't see Chris at all! And the people right next to us and behind us were apparently not huge fans, because they were having there own conversations. I was so irritated.

I guess those are the only reasons.....it was just funny to see the difference between Luke and I. He loves the night hours, he loves crowds, he didn't really care about conversations or tall people! :) He's so mellow....

Overall, the concert was great. DC took the chance to do an acoustic concert...old school style. It was so cool for him to play the first 4 songs off of the first 2 CD's. Took me back to a time of life when things were so simple. It's really nostalgic for me......now if only I can petition for every concert venue to have assigned seating, with enough room in between people for our individual "bubbles" of personal space!