This was the day I had been waiting for. Union County Musicfest. Free. Train. These are all uplifting words. And boy did we make a day of it. Sex, drugs, and rock & roll all were present: Sex- the 3 year old girl in front of us was fond of taking off her shirt and dancing around; drugs- I must have seen at least 4 middle-aged women pop an aspirin, or so they called it; and Train at least brough me some rock & roll. Yeah. It was wild. We left around lunchtime and arrived at the glorious festival in time to sample some good (and not so good bands) and even squeeze in a funnel cake, a first for RB, I think. Music began with Soul Asylum, whose name sounds like a horror film and I was grossly unfamiliar with. Apparently they had a one hit wonder back in the 90's. All I know is they aren't hitting any of the right spots now. They were tolerable, but very womp. Then we meandered and tried a bit of Jesse Malin who was positively miserable. He took the music in my soul and ripped it to shreds with his nasly voice. Needless to say, we lasted about 2 songs. On the other stage came on the Bravery, one of those bands that ends up on my iPod from soundtracks but I don't really know that well. They did a good job. Pretty typical rock band stuff. We decided to skip the OK GO concert in hopes of staking out spots for the headliner: TRAIN. I still think this was a good choice, although the amount of confetti coming off the stage from OK GO had me wondering for a second. But then it began, Train in all their glory. And we were about 20 feet from the stage. So fantastic. Please look at this and tell me you're not at least a little jealous:
As you can see, Pat is quite the performer. And it was so mind-blowing to finally be there and I just had a blast. Well, it would have been perfect, besides the gaggle of middle school bitties in front of us. And the hour-long wait for the shuttle to get back home. But nothing can stop this train of good feelings. Huh-uh.
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