It had been about a year since I last saw the band and seeing them again was an extremely enjoyable experience. This was the freshest I've seen the band in about 3 years.

I didn't expect Warehouse as an opener; the violin playing at the end was new and energetic and set off a great beginning. Granny and Gray Street, two of my favorite songs, followed. Next came a song I'd never heard before. There were a total of 5 new songs that I'd never heard. Other than Gravedigger, I hadn't heard much new in quite some time. Grace is Gone was stated with a slide guitar solo by Stefan Lessard and had a great, country music hoe-down ending lead by Boyd Tinsley.

It had been a while since I'd heard Help Myself and nice to hear it pop into the show. It was followed by Hello Again, which may be my favorite of the new songs but I'll have to hear them again before I decide.

The finale of Rapunzel had a very frantic ending that was punctuated by my hasty exit from the stadium. My wife had to be up at 5:00 the next morning and were were in the 13th row. As soon as I figured the song was getting close to being over, she and left our row and sprinted to the exit at the top center of the venue. The wild keyboard helped my running and the two of us reached the exit just as the show ended. We were on the interstate 5 minutes later due to great parking and home 20 minutes later. A perfect ending to the best Dave Matthews Band show I've attended since June 2000!

Setlist:

Dave Matthews Band
June 20, 2004
Verizon Wireless Music Center, Noblesville, IN
Warehouse
Granny
Grey Street
Crazy-Easy
So Much To Say …>
Anyone Seen the Bridge? …>
Too Much
Sugar Will
When the World Ends
Intro …>
Grace Is Gone
Fool to Think
Rhyme and Reason
Good Good Time
Joy Ride
Where Are You Going
Help Myself
Hello Again
Everyday
Encore:
What Would You Say
Pantala Naga Pampa …>
Rapunzel

I can't believe it's been so long since my last post. Where did the time go? I think I know where it went, and school and work account for most of it. I'd been wanting things to change for a while, but I wasn't exactly sure how or why. I guess I was just fed up with everything tired of everything being the same, mostly the less-important aspects such as work and school. Well, things certainly did change. It all started last Christmas. I know, last Christmas was a long time ago in blog time, but it doesn't seem that long ago to me. It all started with the beard. I'd never had facial hair of any type and for some reason stopped shaving. Everyone was shocked that I had a beard because I'm the last person you'd expect to have one. Then, my wife was offered a job at Lilly in Indianapolis as well as relocation package even though we were only about 55 miles away, so we decided to move. We really wanted to live downtown Indianapolis so we started looking and made an offer on a condo after we put our house up for sale. Our house sold but the condo didn't work out — we walked away because we didn't feel like Lockerbie Terrace was being reasonable about pricing. However, the offer on our house was very sting, so we accepted it and moved in with Nicholas parents 2 weeks later. Also, during this same time, my mom and brother and I decided it was time to sell the Gardner family farm. It had been in our family since the 1870's, so it was a hard decision to reach. We fell very lucky to have sold it to a great family with land right next door. I really felt lost at that point, with no roots at all. I was very glad to be living in a house with two great inlaws because I'd have felt even more lost. Anyway, we kept looking downtown. Our realtor Lance really did a great job finding houses but nothing was exactly what we were looking for. After considering another downtown condo (Six Over Meridian), we decided that it would be several months before they were actually ready, so we looked on the south side of Indianapolis and found a great home that had just been built. We made an offer, it was accepted, and this journey of change seems to be coming to a close. We close on our house the Friday and start moving in that day. It will great to have our own place again. I should have just enough time to start to settle in before leans for China. Surely that will give me something to Blog about before 2005 runs around. . .