Amy J. Bennett

If you haven’t been reading long you may not know my addiction to love of Chris Daughtry.  It literally started when I first saw him on American Idol.  Read this post and see.  Don’t you love how I picked the top 5 from the very beginning?  I digress.  I saw him in concert back in the spring and loved it.

But tonight was awesome.

Heather and I dropped the girls off at MIL’s since Scott is working tonight. We stopped in at Ruby Tuesday’s and split their New Orleans fish and Sirloin.  Yum.  Started the night right.  I was really worried about parking and lines on nearby roads because their known to back up.  Apparently this wasn’t causing too much of a raucous because there were no lines and when we got in the parking lot, we were literally a few parking spots away from being right at the building.  We walked right in and found our seats 30 minutes early.  The place was almost packed.  Heather had heard it was not sold out and indeed no one sat in the two seats at the end of our row to our right.

The concert opened with two acts.  One was You Are, I Am.  They were ok.  Next up was an AWESOME Canadian band called The Midway State.  I think they may be better in person but they were so cool to listen to.  Very sweet lyrics to their rock songs.  The lead singer/piano player Nathan has this huge afro but the boy can play and sing.  I highly recommend you check them out.

So on to my camera story.  The tickets said no cameras but come on.  Most places let you get away with it.  There were these ladies standing in the aisles helping people to their seats.  The one near us looked like a mean school teacher according to Heather.  I agreed.  I was scared to take my camera out.  So I waited until the lights went out.  I took a few (Heather’s says lots) pictures with my flash and this woman almost comes running at me with her flashlight and says, "You can not take any more pictures or you will be thrown out!"  Yikes, yes, ma’am.  And then I see the same woman actually go tell a girl to put her cell phone up and she can not take any pictures.  It was awful.  As you can see below though, I eventually snuck the camera out with no flash and took some pictures.

So as for Chris’s performance, the Greensboro concert paled in comparison.  Obviously the sound and lighting was better because we were inside.  But it was extra good because the place he played at was pretty small.  And we were on row V so it wasn’t too far back.  He basically sang his entire album plus did some Motley Crue, John Lennon and other covers.  They were really cool.  He also sang a song he just wrote in Australia.  It was a ballad. We had a hard time understanding what he was saying but he sounded good. 

I just love that Chris’s voice is so real.  What you hear on the album is what you get in person.  If not better.  He also tries to switch up a few places and make it sound a little better and it sounds cool.  The crowd was screaming the whole time. We were on our feet the whole time.  And then at the end Heather says, "I think he just said to come down front."  I basically threw my camera on my purse, left everything and pushed Heather out the aisle to run down.  I was then within four feet or so of the stage.  At the end he shook the crowd’s hands.  I tried so hard to get close enough but I was about a foot short of getting to him.  Heather apparently was a bit sneakier because she kept moving down the stage with him, threw herself over the crowd and got to shake his hand!!  Lucky girl.

But that was basically it.  He went off-stage after that never to return.  My throat hurts from screaming and our choir cantata is in the morning.  Tonight was awesome.  Now enjoy the few pictures I got.  Also check my flickr account soon.  I’ll put some I took out there too.

Oh, and be sure to scope out the drummer in the pictures :).