The summer is here. The time of year where summer concerts is around. I don’t go to national concerts anymore, but only if bands come around that I love, I’ll go see for sure.

The only concert I’ll be going to see this summer is the reunited Phish at SPAC in Saratoga Springs. I sure am looking forward to this one. Phish is a favorite live band of mine. I don’t own any of their CD’s, I just enjoy seeing them live more. I think Phish plays the best live shows in the major label industry.

I have been to plenty of hippie concerts, so I know how crazy they are and I know what they are like. I’m just going to this show for the live music of Phish, of course. I ain’t going to SPAC hours before the show to party hard with a bunch of hippie strangers, I’m not going to that concert for that. I’ll arrive at SPAC at the time the show starts.

In these type of concerts, of course, most people attending the show would be either really drunk or stoned or worse, tripping on acid, etc. These people don’t really bother me, as I don’t pay attention to it but the concert itself. I go to the hippie jam band concerts for the music, not to party. Yes, I’ve always been a fan of the hippie jam band genre for years. I grew up on that music.

After the summer’s over, then I’ll be seeing Metallica in Albany in Nov.

I also want to see AC/DC and Elton John/Billy Joel at the Times Union Center but tickets to those two shows are pretty pricey, I don’t want to spend a lot of money on concerts.

Phish and Metallica is good enough for me.

Kev