Sunday, January 29, 2012

Crazy for Paisley

Last night Ryan and I attended Brad Paisley's Virtual Reality Tour concert. As always, it was AMAZING! This was our third time seeing Brad in concert, and it doesn't get old.

I love that although he does a lot of the same songs each concert, he takes the time to change the way he does them. The lights, the video, the staging, makes them feel new and fun each and every time! One of the best parts in regards to effects was when Carrie Underwood "appeared" on stage to sing their duet "Remind Me". It looked so realistic that the people next to me were convinced that Carrie traveled to Salt Lake just to sing that one song with Brad!


But my very favorite part occurred after he finished a song with his acoustic guitar. He was out on the "catwalk" part of the stage, surrounded by the audience. After the song, he focused his attention on someone in the audience, and I thought maybe he was going to give someone his guitar pick or hat. Instead, he took out his pen, signed his guitar, pointed at a young boy, and then handed him the guitar! Wow! I was in tears!

We had pretty good seats -- on the floor about halfway back. But I learned that from now on I should not pay for floor seats -- I am too short for it to be worth it! I need the stadium seating to be able to have a chance to see past the heads in front of me :)

But for part of the concert, Brad came out to a small stage that was pretty much right behind us! He performed to the people in the very back, so he had his back to us. But it was still exciting to be so close!



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