Last Sunday I got to go the Americanarama in Montainview, CA. The line-up was: Ryan Bingham, My Morning Jacket, Wilco, and Bob Dylan. One of my favorite converts I've been to, simply because I was familiar with each act's music somewhat. I actually got the guy who runs my LCS a poster and t-shirt from the event. The tour wasn't coming anywhere near me, so I flew out to visit my brother and went there for one of the nights.

A number of things:

  1. Free parking. I can't remember ever going to a concert when you didn't pay for parking.
  2. As long as you didn't bring in alcohol they let you bring in your own food and drinks.
  3. It started on time. Yet, another first. Because of that we missed about half of Ryan Bingham's set.
  4. Speaking of Ryan Bingham his sound was completely different from what I know. It sounded like a Southern rock bad.
  5. Time between acts was lightning fast too. Still made for a 5 1/2 hour concert.
  6. My Morning Jacket (my brother's favorite act) probably sounded the tightest as a band.
  7. Wilco was probably my favorite at simply because I am most familiar with them, and listen to them the most. I was so happy to finally see them in concert. Plus, the played one song I really wanted them to play: "Heavy Metal Drummer"
  8. What to say about Bob Dylan (my brother's fiancee's favorite)? I was warned he would be terrible at worst. At best it would depend on how "into it" he was. I thought he was really pretty good.
  9. I was surprised he didn't play guitar at all. He also never talked to the crowd. Which didn't bother me really.
  10. During Dylan's third song I though, "Man, the piano player sounds like he playing a different song from the rest of the band." Because of sight lines I didn't realize until later that Dylan was the piano player.
  11. Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead came out and played with both MMJ and Wilco. That was pretty phenomenal. I loved the cover he did of "Knocking on Heaven's Door" with MMJ and "St. Stephen" with Wilco.
  12. I'm really surprised I didn't get a contact high...ahem.

So yeah, I had some fun.

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