Woo hoo! Saw the best Concert EVER last night!

Last night Kelly, a friend, and I went to the Rascal Flatts "Unstoppable" Tour with Darius Rucker as their opening act. Loved, loved, loved it! We had excellent seats at the Resch Center in Green Bay. I got to use the new Nikon camera I got for Christmas. The zoom worked absolutely great! I got really good close up zoomed pictures. I took a total of 68 pictures, but I'll show you only seven of them that I think tell the story.

Kelly and I went to Anduzzi's Restaurant for dinner and to park my vehicle for the concert. Their food is excellent and they are only two blocks from the Resch Center. The concert started at 8. Because I got the tickets through where I work at KI, I got free passes to the Oneida Lounge where they had appetizers before the concert. Just outside the lounge they had this huge cut-out (if you can call it that, it was so big). Kelly and I had our picture taken in front of it.



For some reason concerts never start on time. This one was no exception. Darius Rucker (formally Hootie from Hootie and the Blowfish) and his band got out on the stage about 10 after. Secretly this is who I really came to see, not that I wasn't thrilled to death to see Rascal Flatts. I think his voice has got some quality that draws me in. He co-wrote all of the songs on his very first country CD. Some I love better than others, but their all really good (some may be a little bit too country for my taste). My favorite song of his right now is "History in the Making" - very cool.



After Darius sang for just under an hour there was an intermission so that the set could be changed. The next picture I captured is of the fireworks that opened Rascal Flatts turn on stage. It was absolutely blinding.



The next picture is the three members of the group, Joe Don Rooney, Gary LeVox (lead vocal), and Jay DeMarcus. The fog and colors made this a really cool picture. They were harmonizing during this photo, which is one of the traits of the group that made them popular. Later in the show they lowered a mirrored piano form the ceiling that Jay played.





When the group started playing their song "Take Me There", Gary spotted a little girl in the audience and got her onto the walkway to walk with him. She was maybe 4 or 5 years old I'm guessing. The lyrics of the chorus to the song are:

I wanna know, everything about you,
And I wanna go, down every road you've been.
Where your hopes and dreams and wishes live,
Where you keep the rest of your life hid.
I wanna know the girl behind that pretty stare.
Take me there.

Very appropriate and adorable. Both Darius Rucker and Rascal Flatts said several times how appreciative they were for the audience coming to the concert. They were very interactive with the audience by shaking hands, holding cameras to take pictures of themselves with fans, and signing autographs during the concert. They seemed very down to earth and realize that it's the fans that make them as successful as they are. At the end of the show Darius Rucker came back out and they did a couple of songs with him. They all seem to get along really well.





Well, what a night! I really enjoyed it.