Inside the House of Baldwin

Last night we attended a Rush Concert, their Snakes and Arrows Tour. It was held at the Usana Ampitheatre in West Valley. We took Dallen and Jed, and Dallen invited his golfing buddy, Nathan Bray. All of Jed’s friends were at Scout Camp, where we had picked him up earlier, so we invited the ultimate Rush fan along, Shawn Graff. Shawn had already attended the concert in Concord, CA just last weekend. He gave us the lowdown on what to expect.

The crowd was actually quite tame. There definitely wasn’t any slam dancing (although Dallen spied a young man in a kilt doing interpretive dance during the songs). There were youngsters there, mostly children of fans, but the average age was probably above 25. I even saw some grandpas and grandmas shuffling along after the concert. The weather was great, the music was great, and the show was great. I haven’t been to a Rush concert since 1992 when I was pregnant with Dallen. That must be why he is such a huge fan himself.

The funniest thing I noticed was that, along with raising lighters in the air during the encore, people raised their lighted cell phones. My has our society changed. What a bunch of geeks! Also, even though there were signs banning cameras and video cameras, it couldn’t stop everyone from taking pics and videos with their cell phones. I took pics with my iPhone, and Brad took video with our little Panasonic Lumex camera.

I also noticed that I am, once again, definitely getting older. The bass beat was opposite my body rhythm. At times the insides of my body actually hurt from the bass, or the amps, or whatever it was that was coming at me like a freight train. Plus, my earplugs didn’t work so well. The music was still quite loud. I am now in the mom category. I’m actually a mom of a teenage boy. Am I really that old?

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