It's been a busy start to the month of March for us:
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| Puckett's Grocery |
Saturday, March 2 - We plunked down some major cashola to get VIP tickets to see
Pink at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville tonight. There were several reasons for our hefty investment. First, we both like her music. Second, she is said to put on quite a live show. Third, the Bridgestone is far from our favorite place to see music and if we can't general admission in front of the stage, then we were going to get as close as we could. Beforehand, we had dinner at
Puckett's Grocery downtown with our friend, Bridgette, who was going to the show with us. This was our first time at this southern-food favorite that got it's start out in Franklin, TN. I had my first go at
"chicken and waffles" and I have to admit they are pretty darn good. All the food was delicious, hearty and very affordable. We will definitely be making other visits to this establishment when we have downtown events. And they take reservations!
The SOLD OUT show was in the simplest terms...AMAZING! Easily the best arena show we have ever seen. Our seats were great. They were elevated and to the right center of the stage so we saw everything with a perfect view. The production was something straight out of Broadway and/or Las Vegas with huge sound, bright lights and constant action. The opening band, The Hives, were hugely entertaining as well. Besides our swell seats, our VIP tickets got us a cloth goody bag stuffed with Pink promotional items like a trucker hat and a huge knit throw blanket from her Truth About Love Tour.
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| One good-lookin' mama...this was Pink's first tour after having her first child a couple years ago. |
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| Our seats were very close to the stage and to Pink herself except for the times she went flying across the entire freakin' arena! Great music and superb acrobatics made this the best arena show we've ever seen. |
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| As this close-up shot shows, Pink was having a genuinely good time doing what she does best. She's a solid performer and we feel privileged to have seen her play live. |
Tuesday, March 5: We caught one of only three showings of the Broadway musical hit,
American Idiot, tonight at the
Tennessee Performing Arts Center's Jackson Hall. While not knowing a whole lot about it going in, we thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish. It was actually a nice complement to the Pink show we saw a few days earlier which also did a great job of combining rock music with theatrics.
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| Our fourth row seats gave us a great view of the stage. The rock-n-roll based musical based on the hit concept album of the same name by the superstar group, Green Day, had a great, young cast (some of which we saw mingling with crowd out in the lobby after the show). One of the parts of the program that we liked best was the fact that a live rock band was on stage with the cast providing the music during the performance. |
Wednesday, March 6: - We caught one of favorite "new to us" bands,
The Gaslight Anthem, at
Marathon Music Works in downtown Nashville. They had a good opening band as well out of Charlotte, NC, called
Matrimony. The sound engineering was still at a little suspect at times in this venue where we've had one good and one bad experience in the past. Some consistency in the sound quality is still needed for us to consider this a "good" venue.
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| In total contrast to the two previous music endeavors we experienced earlier in the week, these boys from Jersey are basically just a stripped-down, primal rock-and-roll band. |
