Anna is a ridiculously hard core Dave Matthews Band, I only know one person that has seen Dave more times than she has, although that is very hard to beat as she approaches the 50 mark (or even more). I had no idea what I was in store for in seeing a DMB show with her but I was glad I got to experience it with her. I met her right from work, the Izod center was literally only 5 miles from where I work which worked out great. I met her in the parking lot before the doors even opened, we were able to even get front row parking at that time. She came bearing Wawa sandwich, gotta love the Jersey Wawa sandwiches, we don't have them in North Jersey.
Literally as soon as we were finished eating she rushed us to get in line. I have never been this early to a concert before in my life, and probably won't be ever again. But I have to say it was worth it. There was still a small line of people ahead of us to get in before us and we were in the fanclub, Warehouse, line which even got us in before the general public. Once we were inside we were able to get right up near the stage to wait for the show to begin. And wait we did, we were there from 6pm till about 8:30 when DMB took the stage.
We wound up being only about 10 heads back from the stage. Getting there early definitely pays off for sure. It would have been a totally different experience if we had been forced to stand at the back of general admission. Of course we also couldn't go anywhere the whole time and had to stand our ground to maintain our spot. By the end of the night we ended up standing for probably a total of 5 1/2 hours but I do have to say it was completely worth it to experience the concert that up close and personal. We could literally make out their facial expressions and I could see Boyd Tinsley's arm muscles. We also stood on his side of the stage, he is Anna's favorite (she named her cat, Tinsley after him).
I must admit I was a little out of my DMB loop. It has probably been a couple years since my DMB concert but I still love them. And I only got their new cd loaded on my iPod earlier that week. But the concert was great. I had an awesome time, especially being so close to the stage. So worth it! I'm so glad I got to go with Anna, it was a great time!
Me & Anna before the main event - look how close the stage is behind us~
And look how close we were to Dave!!! That was with Anna's phone!
(My crappy phone couldn't take a good pic)
And then there were Matthew's seats. He was there too, but the band looks like ants from up there!
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