Maroon 5 Concert mini-review

So how was my Maroon 5 concert last night.

In a haze. It was fun to get out for a change. It's been so long since I have been part of all that concert craziness. The determinant was me getting floor seats even though I got the tickets so late. I sat beside these 2 geeky teenage boys that didn't know what to do when the music started. And there was this emo teenage boy right beside me too, that kept criticizing every move Adam made. 

Speaking of Adam. 

He knows what he has and he plays it to the fullest. He just knows that he is the embodiment of sex so he just wants to play it out, not speak, not banter with the crowd, just stand there being the sex and that will just get the crowd going. The Hives frontman did a whole lot of crowd interaction to get us riled up. I had never even heard of the Hives before this night but he got me interested. He is a performer. But Adam just strikes this "I am so cool, I am the Shit poses" and we all scream. It must be empowering to be that good looking and know it and be in a business that rewards you everyday for your looks.

They play good music live. Live music is the shit!! And that new drummer can throw down some rad beats. Totally underrated. But it was the Adam show. Everywhere he went, we followed, my camera followed and the screams followed and that just made for an entertaining evening.

The show was very short, lasted about an hour and 10 minutes. I actually thought they would do an encore but they didn't. I actually got up when I saw them dismantling the stage. Their set pieces are always very simple. No frills, no pyro, just lights that match the mood of the music, and no banter between the songs. And they didn't sing many songs. But the good thing is they sang "Sunday morning." If you don't know this, I resisted becoming a Maroon 5 fan. I thought they were overrated and just plain overplayed on the radio. You couldn't put the radio on without hearing, "This Love" or "She will be Loved." But then Sunday Morning came along and changed all that. 

It is one of those songs that just puts me in a good mood all the time. I've liked it since the first time I heard it in 2004 and I have heard several different versions of it, acoustic, live band arrangement, album arrangement and I still love the song. Something about it just makes me feel like it's going to be okay. So I went to the concert only after I confirmed from the reviews that Sunday Morning will be featured and indeed it was. It sounded the same, they didn't rework it. But hearing it live is just like this piece of happiness you wish you could bottle up and play over and over when that sad mood hits to lift you up. It's just phenomenal.

So that was my night. It was better than the last concert in 2005, better seats (even though last time I sat beside these young ladies that were so much fun), better mood, quicker exit out of the parking lot and a shorter tighter set. But I still think the Gavin experience tops all this.