Sam Beam = Beautiful

Sam Beam is the main singer for Iron and Wine.

What do you want to talk about first, when discussing the best concert I've ever been to? Do you want to talk about waiting in front of the stage for 4 hours in the heat of the day, or do want to talk about the rewards that we reaped from that long wait?
Let's talk about the rewards. We were ten feet from the stage. Ten short feet from Iron and Wine. He made eye contact with us, waved at us, played songs that we requested, and air-fived our neighbor.


You know when people say that artists are better live than on their albums? I always think to myself, "No way, josé, their albums are edited to make them sound better. Any mistakes are hidden." Well, maybe there is sometimes truth to that.
Because Sam Beam was better live.

Sam Beam is AMAZING live. They cleared the stage from the people that played before him, and instead they brought out a stool, and one single microphone. Travis started freaking out. It was just him, JUST SAM. No back up guitar, no drummer, no nothing, and he sang songs in different keys so that he could sing louder. He even did that sweet harmonizing thing with his voice, where you sing two notes at once.

Freaking brilliant.


Iron and Wine first dance at the reception anyone?

On other concert notes that AREN'T about how great Iron and Wine is, the whole area smelled like pot, and once, I got a good strong whiff, and coughed, and Trav leaned forward and said, "If you're wondering where the smell is coming from, look behind you."
Behind me was a dancing, flailing tie-dyed man, holding a dictionary and screaming "I MADE IT. I'M HERE! I'M HERE! I'M HERE!"
Then the man on stage (the main singer from Okkervil River) said, "Something smells like a church, like church incense. Is that you with the incense, buddy?" to which the freaking out and screaming only increased. I tried to capture a picture and got this gem.



Speaking of Okkervil River, here are some pictures of their band.



I love the Twilight Concert Series. Free Concerts make the world go round.

I almost wrote, free concerts make world peace, but then I remembered that an angry girl not only tried to kill Lauren, but I was shoved several times, and when I finally shoved back (Stop touching me!) I had a bottle of beer poured on my foot.

Maybe free concerts just make world peace + shoving.