Sherpa's Wonderin's

My love, My Heart, My burning apple

Despite two friends bailing on us the afternoon of the concert, (ok one was that morning), and getting a coke thrown at me in the great freak coke mystery of '05, (more to follow), Tuesday night was a fulfillment of one of my greatest rock fantasies.....(this is a family friendly website...well except for the submissive gingerbread men) Seeing Meg and Jack do their thing on stage.

We made it to Columbia Merriwether as the opening opening act just started their set. Two dudes and a chick drummer playing earthy music. Sound familiar? The three of us (Erin accompanied us....Erin from Colonial 1st) broke off to get food. I grabbed some overly priced food at one of the stands, sat down on the grass and was enjoying the crisp fall air, the opening opening band when I felt and heard "whack splash" and a very wet sensation down my lower back. I looked back and there was a coke cup. I grabbed it, tossed it back to where it came and looked a little bewildered and perplexed as to how and why 2 10-13 year old boys ended up throwing a coke cup at me. One apologized, the other one ran off and I soon walked over to my seat to join Kelli and Erin.

The opening band was the Shins. I now have a not secret crush on the keyboardist who was unabashedly geeky, crazy, and adorable. He looked and acted a lot like my other not-secret celebrity crush, chris parnell. The Shins were solid. Good band, love their songs, looking forward to their tour next year.

We had about 30 minutes between acts. First we noticed that the Stripe's roadies were dressed in "gangster" suits and wearing fedoras. Then as the set was revealed....red and white instruments, three hawaiian dolls etc. sitting on top of the instruments, and then the back drop....black and white tropical scene with an apple sun? Oh, the building excitement. By the time the Stripes got on..the audience was stoked.

The opening number was Blue Orchid. The set lasted 1.5 hours. Jack White spoke twice through the concert and once after the encore. He was dressed in tight red pants with a black flare, red t-shirt and black jacket and hat. The hat and jacket were shed pretty early on.. Meg was in black leather pants and white t-shirt with a red scarf etc.

Yes, the bond between Jack and Meg is so obvious..now that he's remarried, insists that she's his sister...well all i care about is that their music rocks...hard..

Meg is great. I've never really appreciated her until seeing them in concert. She's really pretty incredible and Jack well, as talented and amazing as I've always thought he was...he's that much more talented.

If you ever get a chance to see them play. Go. Donate plasma if you have to but go.....

The opening opening band was M. Ward

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