It’s amazing that it took the local fair for me to go see Smash Mouth in concert. Not really a second string band, I was shocked to find that the local fair actually had a good band.
The Napa Valley Town and Country fair started yesterday, and I went for the first time tonight because I heard that Smash Mouth was playing, and I had been wanting to see them for a while. I made sure to get there early, sat down and then realized I had forgotten my camera. The rocking concert started and I realized after a while that I would be wanting to write about this great concert… but I didn’t note the song set. Napa was one of the first stops in a tour for their new album Summer Girl that comes out September 5th. They even played a song from the new album… supposedly for the first time, and the couple they played from it showed it to be good. As the night went on they mixed in old songs and new songs. Music that they played for movies, and classic cover songs. The concert had all ages there, with thousands of 12 year olds, and senior citizens rocking along side every one else.
Great at playng the crowd, they got some bonus points when a kid ran onto the stage and started running around swing his shirt, and after the security tackled the kid and took him off (the whole time Steve Harwell continued singing), and after the song Steve asked the security guys to take care and not do that again, as he didn’t want any hurt kids (noting the number of teens).
Tags: Interesting, Local, Music, Napa, Review
[...] I went to the local Napa Town & Country Fair a lot this last weekend, at least more then normal. I am not into the animals that the Future Farmers of America raise and then show/sell at the fair. But the concerts this year was definately better then previous years. Smashmouth rocked Thursday Night, and Charlie Daniels Band Friday Night was good. Tonight had Wonder Bread Five… which I only caught a little. And it seemed they where doing a lot of covers… but eh. Tonight I was there for the derby, The Napa County Demolition Derby. Not as good as previous years they only had a few cars tonight (more tommorrow). Which had 3 normal heats, a consolation round and then the final. Some of them where good, some where eh… but over all what’s not to like about cars crashing into each other… a nice car-b-que and lots of mangled metal. [...]