my night out! edwin mccain concert

i had a great night out last night...went to see edwin mccain at the windjammer in isle of palms and it was fantastic! yes, i went by myself and no, it didn't bother me at all. i've always wanted to see him in concert and was checking out his website a few months ago to see if he was coming anywhere close to me...low and behold he was and i got so excited!

it was in a little bar type place so there was very, very limited seating...something like 3 rows of chairs with about 10-12 seats per row. having never been there before i was not prepared for the near 4 hours of standing in boots that really are just for show not for comfort! but the bonus about having to stand and the smallness of the place meant that i got very close to the stage and i loved that! by the encore i was standing right at the edge and got some decent pictures...i say decent only because my camera phone is not the greatest! it really was so cool being about 10 feet away from where he and the other 2 guys were playing!

i was surprised by the amount of older people in the crowd, but not that women clearly outnumbered men. good number of couples and groups that were made up of just women or a few women with a man sprinkled in here or there! i was slightly afraid that i would stick out being that i was alone, but no one even noticed me and that really was ok in the end. there were lots of cell phone cameras going off and a few actual cameras as well...guess with everyone having cameras on their phones these days, it's just too hard to tell everyone no pics! i took tons of pics and am slowly working on getting them off there and onto my computer...it's slow going since i haven't figured out a quick way to take them off just yet. plus my phone has started to protest and is not cooperating with me any longer...deciding instead to continually restart itself!

so, this being the first concert that i have been too in over 5 years, i was putting tons of expectation on the whole thing. i will gladly say that it totally lived up to any and all expectations that i had! the opening act came out at 8, a guy named patrick davis (i think), just him and his guitar for about an hour. he was really good and i was tempted to get his cd, but didn't in the end! then edwin came out at about 9:20, just him with another guitar player and a sax/wind instrument player (sadly, i cannot remember their names). they put on a great show for about 2 1/2 hours and i don't think that i've ever enjoyed a concert more! i didn't know every song, being that i'm not a die hard fan...but i knew enough of the songs he did. i plan on making this a regular thing whenever he comes to town, it was well worth the near $24 that i paid for the ticket. and today i'm walking around listening to his cd's on my mp3 player, remembering the great time i had last night and really looking forward to seeing him again!