- 8/03 Concert flashback #76: Counting Crows at Merriweather Post Pavilion in 1997.
- 8/04 Concert flashback #77: Rush at Nissan Pavilion in 2004 for their R30 show.
- 8/05 Concert flashback #78: Tinted Windows at Black Cat in 2009, my only time seeing any members of the pop supergroup outside their respective bands. Then I went to see Extreme at Jaxx later that night.
- 8/06 Concert flashback #79: Widespread Panic at Merriweather Post Pavilion in 2000.
- 8/07 Concert flashback #80: The Smashing Pumpkins at Lollapalooza in WV in 1994.
- 8/10 Concert flashback #81: Barenaked Ladies at Merriweather Post Pavilion in 2004.
- 8/10 Bonus video concert flashback #1: I’ve been a long time collector of concerts I’ve been to. After I moved to Herndon in 1999 I bought a JVC miniDV camcorder to start recording my own concerts, and recorded from 2000 to 2009. By that time I’d purchased a 2nd JVC unit that had a IEEE 1394 output so I could make DVDs with my DVD recorder, but it developed a “condensation error” and stopped working. By that time I had a Flip video recorder and soon acquired a Sony digital camera that shot video as well. But I still had 4 boxes of miniDV tapes, the majority of which I had not converted. 3 years ago my dad gave me a Panasonic miniDV camcorder he got at a yard sale and I managed to convert about 15 more shows (part way through 2003) before it gave out. This year with listening to all these concerts I’ve been to before, I decided to see if there was a way to fix my camera, and Google was my friend as taking it apart, cleaning a sensor and resetting the camera did it. Now I’ve finally finished the first box of videos, and this week I’m going to share some of them, starting with this: Everclear – Wonderful at Celebrate Fairfax in 2003
- 8/11 Concert flashback #82: Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ at Iota in 2011. Last concert before Nina was born.
- 8/11 Bonus video concert flashback #2: Da Vinci’s Notebook – I Wish I Were at Royal Lake Park in 2003
- 8/12 Concert flashback #83: Sheryl Crow at Woodstock ’94. Full Woodstock ’94 report here.
- 8/12 Bonus video concert flashback #3: Eddie From Ohio – Eyes Of A Painter (Kate Wolf cover) at Maury Stadium in 2003 and Eddie From Ohio – America The Beautiful at Maury Stadium in 2003
- 8/13 Concert flashback #84: Nine Inch Nails, Metallica & Aerosmith at Woodstock ’94. Still pound for pound one of the best back to back lineups ever.
- 8/13 Bonus video concert flashback #4: Da Vinci’s Notebook – Another Irish Drinking Song at Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in 2003 and Da Vinci’s Notebook – Jump In The Line (Harry Belafonte cover) at Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in 2003
- 8/14 Concert flashback #85: BandHouse Gigs Tribute to the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock at Strathmore featuring eddie from ohio, Bill Danoff, Patty Reese, Naked Blue & The Wall of Jo(h)n.
- 8/14 Bonus video concert flashback #5: Eddie From Ohio – Woman Of Faith at Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in 2003
- 8/17 Concert flashback #86: The Dead with Warren Haynes at Nissan Pavilion in 2004.
- 8/17 Bonus video concert flashback #6: Dar Williams – I Saw A Bird Fly Away at Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in 2003 and Dar Williams – Iowa at Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in 2003
- 8/18 Concert flashback #87: Phish at Merriweather Post Pavilion in 2009. Fun fact: at this show and the one the next year at the same place, they ended with a cover of “Good Times Bad Times”.
- 8/18 Bonus video concert flashback #7: Eddie From Ohio – Operator at Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in 2003 (with Da Vinci’s Notebook, The Kennedys, Nerissa & Katryna Nields)
- 8/19 Concert flashback #88: Tori Amos at Wolf Trap in 1996. My second Tori show, and out of the 12 times I’ve seen her, 5 have been in August.
- 8/19 Bonus video concert flashback #8: Da Vinci’s Notebook -The Captain’s Wife’s Lament at Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in 2003 and Da Vinci’s Notebook – Three Little Words at Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in 2003 and Da Vinci’s Notebook – Enormous P*nis with ASL at Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in 2003
- 8/20 Concert flashback #89: Angie Aparo at Jammin’ Java in 2006.
- 8/20 Bonus video concert flashback #9: Eddie From Ohio – Hole Hearted (Extreme cover) at Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in 2003
- 8/21 Concert flashback #90: Roger Waters at Baltimore Arena in 1999.
- 8/21 Bonus video concert flashback #10: Meat Loaf – I’d Do Anything For Love at Wolf Trap in 2003
- 8/24 Concert flashback #91: Rage Against The Machine at Patriot Center in 1996. House lights up for the entire show as the entire floor was GA and absolutely nuts.
- 8/25 Concert flashback #92: Dave Matthews Band at Nissan Pavilion in 1998. Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters opened and guested on several songs.
- 8/25 Bonus video concert flashback #11: Robbie Schaefer – Feels Like Rain (John Hiatt cover) at Jammin’ Java in 2003
- 8/26 Concert flashback #93: Joseph, Shovels & Rope and Dawes at Wolf Trap in 2018.
- 8/26 Bonus video concert flashback #12: Getaway Car – Big Time Lullabye in 2003 and Getaway Car – She Said She Said in 2003 – The Beatles cover
- 8/27 Concert flashback #94: Yes at Wolf Trap in 2001.
- 8/27 Bonus video concert flashback #13: Da Vinci’s Notebook – F*ck You (original song) at Jammin’ Java in 2003
- 8/28 Concert flashback #95: Weezer at Virgin Mobile FreeFest in 2009.
- 8/28 Bonus video concert flashback #14: emmet swimming – The Dance at Clarendon Day in 2003
Month: September 2020
August
On the 1st we should have been at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, but we still had a virtual meeting and family picture with our Shantytowne peeps. And we still got to see a concert, another boat concert, this time great to have Tommy Gann for concert #6 (so now I’ve been to 6 concerts this year, when I normally would have hit about 50 by now and I’ve produced half of them. 2020 is so strange). I also got requests by text from a neighbor during the show (Jack Johnson was a success, but she also requested Hall and Oates while he was playing one).
Nina’s musical theatre camps had come to an end, so we made our own plans for August. Our friend Seth taught ukulele to her on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays in the morning and she started voice lessons with Rachel through Jammin’ Java on Wednesday afternoons. She also worked on 2 pages of a 3rd to 4th grade workbook each day. In the afternoons, she joined the “Girl Squad”: her and 3 other neighborhood girls, who played together (all masked) under the watchful eye of Julia, our babysitter (that continued from June and July, but more officially with the other girls this month). On Tuesday the 4th I was so glad my state is part of this. Also, this came and looks great to display the alcohol. Wednesday Nina left soap in the tub, then I found she was watching unauthorized videos, plus Seth had a migraine and couldn’t teach. So she practiced ukulele in my office, then went upstairs to do her workbook. When I went upstairs after 30 minutes, she was playing and told me she couldn’t find the workbook. FML. Thursday’s out of context quote: “Dad, how do you clean Gatorade off a skateboard?” Also we found out contact tracing will have to be automated for now.
Saturday the 8th we took the boat out and Jill and Nina went swimming. Tuesday Nina started Wet N Wild, a twice weekly social distanced pool playtime from RA Camps that she loved. Friday, if you wanted to hear Margo Price cover WAP, here ya go. NSFW if you’re still in an office or have small children nearby. Also, They Might Be Giants made a Schoolhouse Rocks song. Later I took the Girl Squad out on the boat, but swimming was done for a while.
Saturday the 15th Nina asked for a special breakfast and got a waffle with ice cream toppings and strawberries and peaches with whipped cream. Sunday I wondered if anyone else’s child was cosplaying as all The Loud House children? Just mine? Alrighty then. Also, this was powerful. Thursday we got lobster rolls from Mason’s. Friday was Nina’s last day with her babysitter Julia, so we made a video for friends and family to commemorate the occasion. Saturday we were singing this so had to introduce Nina to Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Sunday Nina had an early birthday party as 2 of the neighborhood kids were moving to Spain for the year, so we brought out the slip ‘n slide, juice boxes and cupcakes for all the neighborhood kids.
Monday the 24th we found new babysitter Catherine, who a long while ago lived next to us. That worked well for our last regular week of summer, then we’d found a good way to have a socially distanced vacation: rent a condo in Bethany Beach for 5 nights (leaving before Labor Day craziness). We left Saturday morning and then stopped at the shopping center. The paddleboard Jill had purchased several years earlier had been shedding fiberglass, and no surf shops around us would repair it, but she had found a place near Bethany that would fix it. Getting the paddleboard tightly tied to our portable roof rack took some doing, but we were soon on out way again without any problems. We stopped for smoothies at Smoothie King in Bowie and lunch at Sonic in Bridgeville, then went to Dollar Book Shuffle in Laurel, DE. They say they have “over 40,000 quality used books and 15,000 DVDs & CDs” and I don’t doubt it, but the CDs are completely unorganized and it I spent a good long while sorting through them. We then ended at Bethany Beach and checked in to our condo. After we unpacked, we checked out the beach, then walked to the downtown area (masks required everywhere) where we had made a reservation at Ropewalk. Unfortunately as were walking there I’d taken my glasses off to wipe the sweat from my face, and felt a hot pain in my right eye, and blinking didn’t help. I went to the restroom in the restaurant and couldn’t see anything, but the pain had lessened. I had crab legs and we all had crushes (Nina’s in a fish bowl). After dinner they left early and stopped at Candy Kitchen, then we had candy for dessert in the condo.
Sunday we stopped at the nearby Dunkin’ to get donuts for breakfast, then dropped off the paddleboard. I dropped off Jill and Nina, then spent a couple hours shopping at Giant. It turned out one of the neighborhood families, the Grunspans, also decided to spend some time in Bethany Beach and Nina was delighted to go to the beach with her friends, while I spent the afternoon in the condo (my eye had not gotten better, so I got to research eye doctors). I made ribs for dinner, then we went to Ba Roos Ice Cream for dessert. Monday we got to Sussex Eye Center, where my cornea was diagnosed as scratched, and I got a prescription to fix that. We went to DB’s Seafood Co to get takeout for lunch (good lobster roll). For dinner, we’d decide to trade off with the Grunspans and we’d host all the girls while they went out to dinner, then switch the next night. I made grilled chicken and spaghetti for everyone, then we took them to Shipwrecked for mini golf & ice cream.
