311 is mine. Period.
Last night was spent at the Santa Barbara Bowl with my favorite people (sans Tracy, she stayed with the kids for us cuz she’s not a freak like me) George & 311. It was like going to see old friends that we haven’t hung with in a while, with rockin’ music of course! Some of you may shake your heads & think “aren’t they a little old to be going to serious rock concerts?” In answer to you I say ” I will see 311 yearly until the day I die, or they don’t tour anymore”. Considering the fact that they are all my age (in their 30’s) I think I have a pretty good chance of another dozen years of concerts! Yippee for George & I! How frickin’ lucky am I that my husband shares in the same musical obsession that I do? Okay, I am worse than he is but he’s the one that buys the concert tickets for me!
I am not an obsessive/addictive person but for some reason I have 2 things in my life that I can truly call an addiction (Tracy might call 311 an affliction, meany) 311 and knitting. On the way to the concert last night I told George that the only thing to make a 311 concert more perfect would be if it were just the band & us & I could knit the whole time. I am pretty sure I could knit in a mosh pit, at least on the fringe of one I could. But preferably just them & us. No talking, just music. Any song I wanted at the drop of a hat, yeah that’s what I want…sigh…they make me happy….sorry I sound like a teenager but I just can’t help it on this one topic! Maybe it’s the one thing I hang on to from my youth that makes me happy & doesn’t hurt anyone, including myself. Concerts were a huge part of my teen/college years. My first live show I saw was 7Seconds at the Cattle Club in Sacramento when I was 14. I snuck there with my friends when we were supposed to be at a dance. Rebels that we were, monthly from then on I was hooked on local shows. Until I was about 18 and life got more serious & I had a really sucky boyfriend that didn’t like my Punk side. Then it went down to more of a sporatic event that I went to concerts. Why I am telling you all this I don’t know other than it is something that defined me. Now I am a stay at home mom/ business manager and I am just way too responsible. So if once a year I get to go see my favorite band with my husband live at the most amazing venue in the world, I am going to do it & then chat all y’all up about it! So there!
I will leave you with this, I have seen 311 in the following cities:
Sacramento 2 times
San Fransisco 3 times
Berkeley 2 times
Santa Barbara 2 times (it would be 3 but we had no babysitter last year & gave the tickets to a friend)
LA 1 time
Sick aren’t I?? You can say it, it’s okay, I own it!