July 2, 2006
@ 06:29 AM
Comments [3]
The Kenny Chesney Concert

Last week I attended the Kenny Chesney concert with my girlfriend and we even took some photos before the concert. A couple of coworkers answered my call for country duds and I got some hats, shirts and a pair of cowboy boots contributed to the cause. I probably should write a review of the concert but its hard for me to judge the musical quality of a concert that had people singing songs like She Thinks My Tractor is Sexy and Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy. However here are a few observations from the concert

  • There were supposedly over 40,000 tickets sold and it looked like there were tens of thousands of people there. However the crowd wasn't very diverse, it was almost all white guys and white gals. I was the only black person I saw the entire 5.5 hours we were there.

  • Besides Kenny Chesney there was also Gretchen Wilson, Dierks Bentley's, Big & Rich, and a surprise appearance by Uncle Kracker. The crowd seemed to get into all the performances although it was hard for me to since I didn't know most of the songs.

  • I think I saw someone with the worst job in America. One of the concert goers vomited and it seems there were no safety cones available so one of the stadium employees stood over the vomit so that concert goers wouldn't step on it.

  • Unlike hip hop concerts this one started on time. We got there at 5:30PM and we had already missed half of Dierks Bentley's set. Not only did it start early, it ran until 11 PM which means we got our money's worth.

  • This was the largest gathering of people wearing cowboy hats I'd ever seen. This was doubly a surprise given how rarely one encounters cowboy hats in Seattle.


 

Categories: Personal

« Maybe I Shouldn't Get That Windows Live ... | Home | Don't Mess with Our Software  »
Sunday, 02 July 2006 15:27:11 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
Dare: I just wanna tell you two things...

(1) You guys are a cute couple.

(2) It's really cool to get a look at the relaxed side of the sometimes-abrasive, always-analytical Dare. Thanks for adding another dimension for those of us who read you but don't know you personally.
Roger Benningfield
Sunday, 02 July 2006 16:27:32 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
You're in Seattle, at a country music concert. Even for me such situations feel a little strange, because you are talking about a *subset* of white people. You don't see many South European or East European whites there -- certainly not at the numbers represented in the general population.

You should come to my baptist church some time. :-)
Joshua Allen
Monday, 03 July 2006 04:28:19 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
let's not get racialist here
Samuel
Comments are closed.