Collective Soul In THE HOUSE!

So after a long day of work, I got to go see Collective Soul in concert...I've been looking forward to this concert for weeks and it finally came. I remember loving them in Jr. High and saw that they were playing on the Riverfront here in Delaware. They are possibly the best live performance I have ever seen. Ed Roland is the perfect frontman, and he can really work a mic stand...it's like another arm to him...it had been sprinkling through the night (it was an outdoor concert) and during "The World I Know" it was pouring. Seeing Collective Soul perform "The World I Know" with the rain pouring down and lighting shooting across the sky has just made my top 10 experiences in life. I flashbacked to sitting in my room in Jr. High listening to that song on repeat for hours, just feeling the story so well...and then here I am 10 years later and they are right in front of me with a raging storm and that song.

The whole night capped off with the next song...they played "Better Now" which they informed was the second biggest single of their career...and they did it independently...they are carrying on strong without the record label. Anyway, it came to the part of the song where it says, "The world's done shakin', the world's done shakin', the world's done shakin' me down..." and the crowd was repeating it over and over and the rain had been seeping into the sound equipment...finally, it all gave out, and the lights flickered and all the sound went down...the whole crowd continued the song for the next 5 minutes and the band kept playing mute...Ed Roland kept trying to say, "THANK YOU" over and over...until the stage manager finally made them leave the stage...I left the concert with the thousands of other attendees soaking wet...

Tonight was a show I will never forget. 10 Years ago, Collective Soul became my hero with "The World I Know" and that entire blue album...today, I got to experience what I only imagined as I closed my eyes as a 13-year-old listening to his walkman.