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Jason Aldean at the Five Points Amphitheater

Jason Aldean returned to Southern California after having to cancel his concert the year before. 

Kaycee and I had tickets to see Jason Aldean in 2017, which happened to be a week after the Las Vegas shootings happened.  With that show being cancelled, as soon as he announced that he would be back in the area, we jumped on the tickets. 

Luaren Alaina and Luke Combs opened for Jason Aldean and they both did a great job. This was actually the second time in the last year Kaycee and I had seen Luke Combs. The other time being at the UCI Bren Events Center.

Aldean played all his great hits including Big Green Tractor, Dirt Road Anthem, Drowns The Whiskey and more.

He also played a song near and dear to my heart, Fly Over States. This was my anthem when I was playing baseball at Valparaiso University in Indiana. My time out there gave me an appreciation for a part of the country that largely is viewed as just a fly over state. Part of the lyrics go…

“They’ve never drove through Indiana,
Met the men who plowed that earth,
Planted that seed, busted his ass for you and me,…”

Kaycee and I had a great time and would love to go see him again. He’s my favorite country artist. 

Until next time!

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Ed Sheeran at the Rose Bowl

The Ed Sheeran concert finally arrived!!

Christmas of 2017, I bought Kaycee tickets to go see Ed Sheeran and it seemed like it was so far in the distance but it finally came and now gone.

We had a great time!!

We started the evening off in search of tacos around Old Town Pasadena. It was pretty warm out so we settled for first restaurant with inexpensive tacos and air conditioning. By the way, we also found parking for just $6 for the night (Colorado and South Pasadena Avenue) as opposed to what would have been $40 at the Rose Bowl.

Then we caught the bus to the stadium, however there was such a long line for the bus that it took about 45 minutes just to get on the bus.

When we got to the stadium, the first things we saw as we entered was Dip N Dots so we had to get some because Kaycee had been spotting Dip N Dots the last few weeks at the Airport and at the Seattle Mariners game but she had previously passed.

We then headed up to our seats (the farthest row up against the cement wall) and made it just before Snow Patrol opened up. Our seats made for a nice back support.

Next was Ed Sheeran. He is a fantastic entertainer and uses a foot pedal called a loopty loop or something like that and he is able to record different chords and loop play them so that way he can layer different live sounds. He was a one man show. It was pretty impressive the coordination and layering of all the different sounds he can create with his guitar and voice.

We took off before the end of the last song to catch the bus so we weren’t able to see his encore of Shape of You.

Overall really fun time despite the heat and the problems getting on the bus to the concert.

Would definitely recommend seeing Ed Sheeran even if you aren’t a huge fan, still very entertaining!