On September 30*, Vickie and I went to the Derek Webb concert and I really enjoyed it.
The environment was superb. It is a new coffee shop/church which is a really cool idea.
However, I didn’t enjoy the concert that much. Here’s why:
- Most of the people were standing. There were not even chairs out. I think that all concerts should give you a choice of what to do. Don’t just force something on people.
- Derek Webb played his set list straight from the cd. This annoys the mess out of me because it takes no effort for me to put the cd in my cd player and play it straight through. Change it up.
- Derek Webb cusses. In his new song, “What matters most”, he throws out a couple of cuss words. Not sure how I feel about that. I used to think it was a good thing because it gets you to think about how we care more about language than we do about people dying. But after thinking about it more, not sure if his point will get across at all to some.
But despite some of the above things I didn’t like. I did like the fact that he told a funny story about people requesting the “Freebird” song by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Also I believe that he did a great job of playing songs acoustically that people requested. And finally, his new stuff is completely new and very much not like his other stuff. This is a good thing to me because he is trying to push the envelope and get new ideas, both musically and lyrically, out there.
* I know that this is like two weeks late. Get over it.
Did you catch Marc Scibilia opening for him?
I actually didn’t see Marc Scibilia. I am truly not even sure who that is. What kind of stuff does he play?
If anyone is interested, I’m giving away a free copy of Derek’s new CD on my blog.
http://www.shanebertou.com
I thought you were more intrigued about him cursing than confused. Interesting to hear a new thought about it from you.