Bridge School Benefit

When I was in the great state of California visiting MJM we went to this amazing benefit concert for the Bridge School, a school for the severely communication impaired, started by Neil Young and his wife Pegi. There were many great gigs there including (not in any particular order, because I can't remember) Neil young, Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews Band, Trent Reznor, Death Cab for Cutie, Brian Wilson .. I know there were more but I drink a lot.

Anyway, WOW, I mean really what a line up.

Pearl Jam was so awesome, they even played Black from the Ten disk. Eddie Vedder is still as sexy as ever, and still makes really funny faces when he is singing. Pearl Jam has been part of the Bridge School Bene many times and Eddie seemed to have a good relationship with Neil and some of the students.

Foo Fighters brought the house down, I would defiantly seek them out to see again. Not to mention that the band members are hot! Great set list, they dedicated Hero to the kids, I felt it to be an emotional high point in the concert.

Dave Matthews Band, so so to me, I am not a big lover of the "jam band" and by the time they came on it was late and cold as hell which probably skewed my opinion more than I think, but I do think that DMB has a cohesiveness between the band members that is not often seen, and should be applauded. Also Dave himself is pretty cute and has a very sexy speaking voice (when you can understand what he is saying)

Death Cab for Cutie, very cool, more poppy than I expected but still good sound, fun band.

Brian Wilson, tons of energy in this 10 piece mix, some old Beach Boys tunes, he looks like he is 500 years old.

And the best for last - Trent, da da da dam, did I mention that this entire concert is acoustic? I was a bit concerned about how Trent was going to pull off his sound but there was no need for concern what-so-ever, he had a string quartet, two cellos, a bass, and a violin and some other thing? ROCK ROCK ROCK, it was absolutely amazing, I had tears in my eyes with his closing of Hurt. Trent changed his look a bit since my teen crush and looks a hell of a lot better, save the beard that is. I can't rave enough about how truly amazing this set was and how privileged I am to have seen such a rare appearance.

There is a possibility that I will need to make this California trip annual.