A few months ago I took Josh to his first concert, Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi’s Soul Stew Revival, a very good blues oriented band. It was an outdoor venue and Josh enjoyed the show, although I wouldn’t say he was thrilled with it. It was a little low-key for what Josh was hoping a rock concert would be. If you are not aware, Derek Trucks is a great guitar player, particularly noted for playing slide guitar, and his wife Susan Tedeschi is also a very good guitarist as well as vocalist. In addition to Derek having his own band, he’s one of the guitarist’s in the Allman Brothers Band.
My two younger boys expressed dismay at their not being asked to go to that concert. Its seems that the older siblings always lower the barriers for the younger ones. For example, Samantha, my oldest daughter never had candy until she was 4, but her younger brothers got to try it at a much younger age. In the same way it appears that Josh had broken the concert barrier and now the others would not be willing to wait until they were 14 to go to a concert.
I started thinking about what would be a good concert for the younger ones to attend. I found a concert I wanted go to and Bridget did not. The band is My Morning Jacket. However, I decided that Alec was still a little too young for this kind of concert.
I took Josh and Jake Friday night to see them at the Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Center. In door shows are usually more intense than outdoor venues so I anticipated that it would be a different experience for Josh as well as Jake.
The show turned out much better than I anticipated. The band was excellent. They play a mix of genres but in approach they remind me most of Neil Young’s electric bands, i.e, loud, heavy guitars. Its a very classic rock sound. There was no opening act so the band came on at 8:30 and played almost 2 and 1/2 hours. Jake did get tired about 2/3 of the way through the show. While most of the audience stood for most of the show he sat the last half. Nevertheless, he really liked the music. Josh, thought it was awesome. For me, it was a double bonus, going to a great show and sharing it with the kids.
