Zac Brown Band in Concert!

If they come to a city near you, you should definately go!! Worth every damn penny! I'm listening to the show right now. i got the usb wristband they make of the concert and is available 30 minutes after the show. Only i was there forever cause i stayed to get all their autographs and they stay till everyone gets through. They played for 3 1/2 hours... They even have someone who plays through the intermission...nic cowan. Awesome night!

 

this pretty much clinches that I will never go see the Zac Brown Band.

 

I won't be going either. I'd rather pull my teeth out than go to a country music concert

 

you need to pull your teeth out to fit in at a country music concert

 

Well, whatever...if ur that shallow minded.

 

Shallow minded??

I do NOT like country music. Why the hell would I go to a country concert?

 

I've heard they're awesome live. The Foundation is one of the best albums (country or otherwise) in a long time. These guys are really phenomenal musicians with excellent songwriting. I think I read this is like their fourth album. Kind of surprising that it took this long to make it big.

Did I understand you right that they made a board recording of the concert available to the folks that attended? Did they charge for that? That's an awesome idea.

 

fourth? i was told it was their first which i thought was amazing by how awesome it was. Their next album is due out soon and some of the new songs are on that usb wristband i got. Before the concert started you paid for the wristband, they gave you a ticket, then 30 minutes after the show they were available and it had the entire song set from that nights show. In which i synched to my computer and i've burned a few copies so far. takes three cd's to get it all on. Now, if you bought a tshirt, they stamped your passport which they handed out to everyone as you came in. Your stamped passport allowed you to stay after the show and get your shirt sighned by all the members of ZBB plus the others who came out and sang with em throughout the show.

here's part of the review from the roanoke times:
Sure, ZBB played the hits it has accumulated over its year on the country and pop charts. “Whatever It Is” and “Chicken Fried” went over huge with the audience. But what sets this act apart from just about any other country-influenced band you’ll hear is its willingness to step far outside that genre.

And we’re not talking focus group-approved nods to pop music here. A new song, “Who Knows,” started as an Allman-Brothers-Band-meets-Metallica riff, then cruised into a reggae feel before lurching into a wild jam over the course of 10 minutes. “Free,” an ode to love and traveling, featured a gorgeous run at Van Morrison’s “Into The Mystic.”

Brown, as generous with his sidemen as he was friendly and homespun with his audience, gave center stage to multi-instrumentalist Clay Cook for a cover of The Beatles “Blackbird.” Cook kicked it off with a Stratocaster, fingerpicking a Rufus meets Aquarium Rescue Unit funk feel, his deeply soulful voice sliding in and out of a resonant falsetto.

By the end of the night, the band’s three supporting acts — Sonia Leigh, Nic Cowan and Levi Lowrey — were back up with the band for a rousing finale that featured 13 people onstage, including various supporting sidemen. As this reporter walked from the building to make deadline, the sounds of The Band’s “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” were pouring from the coliseum.

Brown, Cook, multi-instrumentalist Coy Bowles and other members of the band had joined Leigh, Cowan and Lowrey during their short sets. Brown had traded verses with them, and he had good reason — all three are part of his new record label, Southern Ground Records.

But Brown outshined them all. Through weepers (“Junkyard”) and lusty odes (“Different Kind of Fine”), he showed that his sensibility is unique among country stars.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zac_Brown_Band

Looks like this was their first major label album, but 4th overall (2 previous studio and 1 live album). Regardless, sounds like an awesome night.

 

Hell of a show at Charleston last night ...