OT: Concert Tonight!, The Starting Line Options

[Spoke]

It's rained here for the last 24 hours. It's cold out (35F). But I'm in good spirits as I'm going to a concert tonight. My kids are into a punk rock band out of Philly called "The Starting Line". They're playing in a small club, "The Silo" in Reading PA.

The Starting Line

We've seen these guys twice already. Once at the Electric Factory in Philly and once at the Starland Ballroom in Sayresville, NJ. They definitely rock.

I'm the chaparone for my 2 teenage daughters and their 2 friends. I don't mind since the 3 places we've seen concerts at are small clubs (<1000 people), most don't allow smoking, and best of all, have a bar area for those of us over 21 to have some cocktails. I sit at the bar while the kids mosh. I like the music that they listen to but no way would I want to get into the mosh pit. Sorry, but moshing is nuts. I can usually see them in the crowd so I know they're ok. We keep in touch between bands via cell phones.

They've dragged me to a few concerts lately (The Starting Line, The Early November, New Found Glory, Dashboard Confessional, The Matches, Yellowcard). I haven't been to this many concerts since the years after I was out of high school when my buddies and I saw Kansas, Lynryd Skynyrd, The Outlaws, Black Sabbath, Van Halen, Ted Nugent, Charlie Daniels Band, ZZ Top, Steve Miller Band, Heart, and The Marshall Tucker Band, all in Pittsburgh.

BTW, here's some pics from yesterdays trip to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in DC. The last pic is my new hood crest.

Spoke