Bryce's fifth concert....

...and his second time to go to Britney Spears!!! Nic thinks he's going to be traumatized! LOL! I think he'll be a music lover!

Back in March just a couple days after I found out I was pregnant, Melissa, Amanda, and I flew down to Dallas and watched her show. Of course at that time we didn't know she'd end up coming to Tulsa. The downside to that trip was that I lost my wedding ring, after specifically taking steps to ensure that I would not leave it at the hotel by placing it in a pocket in my purse, I still lost it! :(. My purse fell of the hotel bed and apparently my ring fell out then, but I didn't notice. Of course when I called the hotel after noticing it missing at the airport, they could not find it and never have. Right....

I didn't initially purchase tickets for this concert with the presale when Melissa & Heather and Kristi and Melanie did, and they got great seats dead center of the center ring. I wasn't sure I would be up to it being pregnant and all. But back in August I was checking to see how the tickets were selling. Lo and behold there were row A seats available one section from the center. Awesome seats! I sat on it a couple days deciding, and each day they would still be available...so I finally caved and was glad I did. As soon as I bought them, there was one pair next to us that sold quickly and then they kept going.

So the Dallas concert was great and Tulsa was just as great, if not better. The Dallas concert was one of the first in the tour, so there have been some improvements and changes. The most notable change was her outfits were all different. She did change up the playlist a little. Yes, it's common knowledge that she lip sings, but I've accepted that and go mainly for the show and performance, rather than to see her singing abilities. I did think that the voice over recordings sounded closer to a live sound than they did in Dallas. I don't think she had as many circus acts before she came on stage as she did in Dallas, but that's okay, we just need a little bit of that to get the feel of the Circus atmosphere. Many of her stage props were the same. She also looked so much more comfortable on stage in Tulsa compared to the Dallas performance. I was just as pleased the second time around and was very glad we good as great of seats as we did so late.

The songs that she performed to were:

Circus

Piece of Me

Radar

Ooh ooh Baby

Hot as Ice

Boys

If U Seek Amy

You Outta Know (Live)

Me Against the Music

Everytime (Live)

Freak Show

Get Naked

Breathe on Me

Do Something

I'm a Slave 4 U

Toxic

Baby, One More Time

Womanizer

Bits of other songs were play during intermissions and clothing changes.

This should be the last of the concert run...for a while!

Keith Urban and Sugarland ROCKED!

On Friday August 7th I went with Channing, my cousin Evan's wife, to our 3rd Keith Urban concert. This has to be one of the most difficult events for me to get tickets. Even with two different presale codes, I had no luck getting tickets. Needless to say I ended up with tickets in the upper section after getting them during the public sale. We have been spoiled our two previous concerts with awesome floor seats, so I was extremely disappointed. In reality the seats weren't that bad, we were in the 2nd row of the upper section directly to the right of the stage. The rows in that section do not leave much leg room.

I wasn't sure I was going to enjoy Sugarland since I really get annoyed watching them perform on the music award shows, however I'm surprised to admit I really enjoyed them. I also had never noticed how much Jennifer Nettles resembles Kirsten Dunst.

Sugarland performed many favorites including Settlin', All I Wanna Do, Something More, Baby Girl, Want To, Already Gone, Every Day America, and Who Says You Can't Go Home. She was quite entertaining and spoke a lot to the audience. During Everyday America, she mixed in Madonna's Holiday and Nelly's Hot In Here. Listening to her Texas twang sing Hot In Here was very interesting but entertaining. Also in Who Says You Can't Go Home, they were flashing images from around Tulsa including the Giant Driller, Brady Theather, and TU. There were a couple songs I was surprised they didn't perform including Sugarland and my favorite Stay.

The one we were all waiting for ...

Keith Urban started playing right around 9 pm. As usual he was awesome, performing about 20 songs over the course of 2 hours. As usual he had a second smaller stage set up toward the rear of the floor and I was suprised he walked through the crowd to get there. He also returned to the crowd later to play between sections 119 and 120. I thinks it's so awesome he is not afraid to get up close and personal with his fans. As usual he showed off his awesome guitar skills. Several members of his band also showed off their singing abilities, and WOW!! With the exception of one they are all awesome singers. He did bring Sugarland out to perform You're the Reason God made Oklahoma and eventhough they had to have a cheat sheet for the words, they did a good job. I did miss a couple songs he didn't play, especially Blue Jeans.

I did manage to keep track of the songs he played and the correct order:

Hit the Ground Running

Days Go By

Stupid Boy

Where the Black Top Ends

Better Half

Once In A Lifetime Love

Making Memories of Us

Only You Can Love Me This Way

Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me

'Til Summer Comes Around

Sweet Thing

Raining On Sunday

You're The Reason God Made Oklahoma w/Sugarland

Kiss A Girl

I Told You So

You'll Think of Me

You Look Good In My Shirt

Somebody Like You

Tonight I Wanna Cry

Better Life

Next up Britney Spears on September 15th!!

So this week is flying by, as every week this summer has. Generally I'm sad to see summer ending, and I still will be, however, I'm very much looking forward to November when Bryce will make his debut. I'm sure as soon as summer is over and fall begins, my weeks will start to drag by.

So last Thursday my friend Amanda and I went to the ZZ Top and Aerosmith concert at the BOK Center. Before the concert we met up with a few of her coworkers and had dinner at McNellie's. I had excellent chicken tenders and yummy sweet potato fries. I was pleasantly surprised considering this place is generally recognized as a bar or pub (of course non-smoking.

Since the BOK center has opened I have gone to several concerts there and park in the same parking garage EVERY time. Apparently this concert was close to being sold out, because the parking garage where I always park was busy like I have never seen before and took forever to get into (and out of). After making a pit stop at the bathroom (of course...I'm pregnant), we made it to our seats during ZZ Top's first song. Our seats were directly to the right side of the stage.

 

ZZ Top played a few familiar songs, switching from gold and pink guitars to white fuzzy guitars (during Legs). They were very entertaining to watch with their long thick beards and sparkly sneakers. As hoarse as the lead singer's voice was when he spoke to the audience, I don't know how he managed any vocals to the songs, but he did. The songs they played that I can remember and recognized were: Gimme All Your Lovin', Sharp Dressed Man, La Grange, and Legs. I recognized more, but not sure of the titles. They played for about an hour.

 

About midway through ZZ Top's performance, we noticed several people to the right of us had cleared their seats. Here came BOK employees with sprinkle stuff and a broom and dust pan. Apparently a guy puked on the lady right in front of him. I'm so glad I didn't see that nor smell it! Needless to say that guy and whoever he was with didn't return and thelady that was puked on came back wearing a new Aerosmith t-shirt.

It took a little bit to set-up Aerosmith's stage, however because were to the side of the stage we could see the band behind the curtain before everyone else could and Steven Tyler was waving and acting goofy. You could tell he eats this stuff up. They began with Eat the Rich, a song I'm not terribly familiar with, then continued on. The songs that I can remember that were played are:

 

Eat the Rich

Fallin' in Love

Rag Doll

Dream On

Walkin' the Dog

Last Child

Cryin

Livin on the Edge

Sweet Emotion

Love in an Elevator

Train Kept a Rollin'

Joe Perry sang a couple solo songs, and I really wished he hadn't. He didn't sound very good and I feel Aerosmith left out a few really good songs that I would have much rather heard. I couldn't believe they didn't play Janie's Got a Gun, Don't Want to Miss A Thing, Crazy, Angel or Jaded. I almost felt cheated!

Overall I'm very glad I went, despite the inflated tickets prices, it was a show worth seeing. I did not take my camera since it stated NO CAMERAS on the tickets, however I should have as I saw many people taking pictures.

 

Next up...Keith Urban and Sugarland....TONIGHT!