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Monday, December 13, 2010
Joyful Noise, Take 2
Location, location, location. What a difference a seat can make at a concert. Back in April I blogged about the Skillet and TobyMac concert at Liberty University (see "Joyful Noise"). I was disappointed about the seats we got (General Admission + not arriving early enough = FAIL), and also that Rebecca couldn't come along. But last night, lo and behold... God gave me a second chance. The tour ended last night in our hometown. My brother-in-law and I went to the Salem Civic Center a couple months back to get tickets and make sure we had decent seats. Boy, did we pick out some decent seats.
I don't necessarily want to recap everything the way I did for the previous concert, but man, as good as it was back in April... last night was infinitely greater. No exaggeration here... I think it was the best concert experience of my life. Please re-read. Okay, I did not say it was the greatest concert ever. What was? I don't know. Not qualified. But last night was the greatest concert experience ever... for me.
After "Shonlock" (Desean Bullock) warmed things up a bit, Skillet set the place on fire... almost literally with a nice touch of pyrotechnics. They are a band worthy of their own headlining tours. Lead singer and bass player John Cooper is a rockstar/performer/screamer/vocalist that I think tries to lose his voice during every show. His wife, Korey Cooper, jams along side him on rhythm guitar and keyboard. Ben Kasica is their well-qualified lead guitarist (meaning he can play the guitar behind his head... really well). And if you don't love their back-up vocalist and drummer chick extraordinaire, Jen Ledger, by the end of the night... leave your man card at the door. Anyway, big props to Skillet... again the best band out there with the worst name. And I recently read that John Cooper would agree with me about the name.
To quote some of his Funky Jesus Music lyrics, TobyMac and the Diverse City Band brought "that hip, that rock, that funky soul" and we watched that tour finale party grow! Yes, the night got better (as you should expect). Toby did his thing, and while I didn't document the entire night because I was just trying to take it all in, enjoy it, and worship God in the most exciting way for me, here's what else I want to remember and share about this concert: (a) God was in it -- I'm not a Christian hand-raiser (you know who you are and what I mean), but I was last night, and I wanted to show God not just with my heart, but publicly with my hands that I am His, and in some of those moments of true worship it almost seemed quiet in there; there's my touchy-feely thought for the day; (b) it felt like my wife and I were actually on a date, which there aren't enough of these days; (c) again... GREAT seats; (d) Toby's participation in the crowd -- Toby popped up at one point in the stands, and this teeny-bopper girl is freaked out next to him, and as he made his way back to the stage climbing across the chairs directly in front of us... OMG, I touched him with a manly slap on the back! You're jealous; (e) the acoustic set with Toby, Gabe Patillo (beat-boxing fool) and Tim Rosenau (guitar) -- happened right in front of us (see pic below -- no zoom, iPhone pic) and Toby gave us some scripture from 1 John 1;
(f) although Toby sported a green and black Houston Astros cap during his performance, he originally came out with a St. Louis Cardinals cap on -- and my "man crush" was official; (g) jammed some of my favorites: Tonight (tour/album title track), Extreme Days, Lose My Soul, Made to Love, City On Our Knees (with God of This City finish on it), and of course, J Train to name a few; and (h) the Winter Wonder Slam finale complete with white paper confetti snow and during which the Burger King Bandit (yes, that one) busted in and "shared" some Whoppers. Silly...
Enough said. It was a good night. Another memorable night of joyful noise.
Today's Good Read: Psalm 33:3
I don't necessarily want to recap everything the way I did for the previous concert, but man, as good as it was back in April... last night was infinitely greater. No exaggeration here... I think it was the best concert experience of my life. Please re-read. Okay, I did not say it was the greatest concert ever. What was? I don't know. Not qualified. But last night was the greatest concert experience ever... for me.
After "Shonlock" (Desean Bullock) warmed things up a bit, Skillet set the place on fire... almost literally with a nice touch of pyrotechnics. They are a band worthy of their own headlining tours. Lead singer and bass player John Cooper is a rockstar/performer/screamer/vocalist that I think tries to lose his voice during every show. His wife, Korey Cooper, jams along side him on rhythm guitar and keyboard. Ben Kasica is their well-qualified lead guitarist (meaning he can play the guitar behind his head... really well). And if you don't love their back-up vocalist and drummer chick extraordinaire, Jen Ledger, by the end of the night... leave your man card at the door. Anyway, big props to Skillet... again the best band out there with the worst name. And I recently read that John Cooper would agree with me about the name.
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| John Cooper of Skillet. |
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| Toby, Gabe, T-Rose. |
Enough said. It was a good night. Another memorable night of joyful noise.
Today's Good Read: Psalm 33:3
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