I still have an Event Staff t-shirt.

Stereogum is right - I think we can laugh at this Onion article. Especially everyone who went to college in Virginia, because everyone knows that if you went to school in VA, you were a real Dave Matthews fan. There at the beginning. My first show was at Lake Matoaka, October 1993. Sponsored by Sigma Nu and Theta Delt. Dude. Awesome.

Of course, it was actually pretty amazing, as were all the other times I saw DMB live after that. Until Nissan, sometime around 1999. Then it was too crowded, too far away, and too young. Or really, I was too old. At 23.

OK, now I'm shifting from thinking that article was funny to it making me sad that my college days are so far behind me. Where did my desire to see jam bands go? Or any band, for that matter. I haven't been to a real concert - the kind I bought tickets to in advance - since Bela Fleck in 2003. And that was all kinds of grownup. It was at the Lyric. We sat in our seats. We went out to a nice dinner beforehand.

It's like I don't even know myself anymore. Maybe lighting a little patchouli incense will make me snap out of it. (just kidding. That's probably half the reason I don't go to concerts.)