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I wanted to include video I shot with this post, but that will have to wait until later. I did include someone else’s file at the bottom and will add my own to a new post when I get it edited.<\/em><\/p>\n

An amazing thing happened earlier this week – I went to a rock concert. I love music, but don’t get to see live shows very often. This is for a variety of reasons, but one of them became very clear after I saw the Old 97s at the Recher Theatre in Baltimore earlier this week – I’m old.<\/p>\n

Rhett Miller and the rest of his bandmates managed to play an incredible show and got up early the next morning for a TV appearance in New York. I needed to go to sleep early the next two nights. That’s how much fun I had.<\/p>\n

I first saw the band play last summer<\/a>, also at the Recher. I have no idea why such a successful band plays shows for $20 in a room which advertises itself as having a capacity of just 700. I just know that I like the intimacy and energy you get from the experience.<\/p>\n

The band certainly had some hiccups – guitarist Ken Bethea started a song in the wrong key and an impromptu band meeting had to solve the problem – but they still ripped the paint off the wall. The new offerings from Grand Theatre, Vol. 1 meshed well with hits like “Murder or a Heart Attack,” “Question,” “Rollerskate Skinny” and the always blistering acoustic version of “Our Love.”<\/p>\n

All of this was topped off by an incredible version of R.E.M.’s ‘Driver 8″ to kick off the final encore. Rhett Miller playing R.E.M. I was in heaven. They followed it up with “Dance With Me,” which I have posted below. What a night – stay tuned for some of my videos sometime over the weekend if they turn out.<\/p>\n