It was totally cool. And if you don’t remember, on Friday I went to see the Goo Goo Dolls and Counting Crows in St. Louis… well, technically Maryland Heights, but whatever.

I first helped out my friend who is interning with a radio station, and that was kinda fun… it was really hot and almost unbearable until the sun started to set, but it was fun. :) They had a huge billboard that the GGDs bought that people had to sign and there was really a lot going on there. The coolest thing, haha, was that we didn’t have to go through security, hahahaha. Ohhh and we got free drinks, and they put me in a radio t-shirt so people thought I was… cool. Except the other radio booths. They looked at us mean.

So we missed the opening band, I don’t even know who it was. We were busy then. But we were seated before the Goo Goo Dolls came out and, actually, we were both surprised to learn that the Counting Crows were actually the headliners. But the Goo Goo Dolls were great and I even worked up the courage to get some photos. Especially with Christine‘s goading on text message (heehee) and the fact that many other people were taking them with flash and not getting yelled at by the creepy security guy. So I went for it… without flash. I took many that did not turn out, but a few that did, that I am quite happy with.

Those are just some randomly picked ones.

Now, the Counting Crows… I was turned off with their lead singer right away. He talked before the GGDs came out and he said that it was, “our f***ing duty to vote.” Now, that may be true, but I don’t see the point for the f-bomb, especially since there were lots of kids there. Then when they were actually out on stage, he said that word constantly, amongst other words. Now, I’m not afraid of profanity or anything, but, seriously, these guys are supposed to be professionals and he just sounded like a complete moron up there, like he has no grasp whatsoever of the English language. He just was not fun to listen to and lost my attention almost immediately. Because of his idiocy, I didn’t really care a lick about whatever charity he was talking about. Honestly. The lead singer of the Goo Goo Dolls didn’t have to use profanity to get his point across… hmmm…

Moving along… The CCs were okay. But they weren’t playing any songs (but one) that we knew, and even that one is a remake. So we skipped early on them. Plus, it didn’t help that the guy right behind us – seriously, like 60 years old – was whistling so loud we were getting headaches. And he was completely rude, he kept whistling while the lead singer was talking and yelling for them to “get on with it.” Of course, I had lost interest in whatever the guy had to say at that point, too, so maybe I don’t completely blame this drunk idiot for his behavior. However, he just kept it up and I was seriously getting a migrane. So I just turned around and stared at him for like… five minutes. Then the guy behind him noticed me and told him to “shut the f*** up, maaaaan.” He was just as drunk. “We can’t hear hiiiiiiim, dude.” The guy kept up the whistling and then the people down his row started telling him to “shut the f*** up, duuuude.” I thought a fight was going to break out. That’s when we left, maybe there was a fight, I dunno.

Well, here are the CC pics. I don’t have nearly as many of them for two reasons: 1. they were lame, 2. the old people in front of us would NOT stop swaying and sit their fat butts down. Okay…

Afterwards we had, like, the shortest visit to Steak ‘n’ Shake, like, eva. Seriously, our food was quick to arrive… it was nice because it was really late and I didn’t get home until nearly 1am even though we left the concert early and all that jazz.