So two weeks ago this Thursday I fulfilled one of my dreams after more than 8 years of waiting. I went to a Yellowcard concert with my best friends. Cree, Tyler, Shanelle, and a new friend named Madi. We all went to the first Yellowcard concert in Salt Lake City in 5 years. And it was definitely one of the best nights of my life. We got to the concert at 5:30 in anticipation for the doors to open at 6. Then we stood around for an hour waiting for the concert to begin. Finally Go Radio began. The music was so loud and it literally shook our whole bodies. Unfortunately Go Radio is not exactly a good band in my opinion, that's what happens when you get a break of an already junk band. A.k.a. Mayday Parade. We endured them for an hour and somewhere around the middle of the hour Tyler would disappear to the back of the room for the next 2 hours. I don't blame him the first two bands were idiots and the music was like putting your headphones on full blast and then sticking your head between two full blasted speakers. After Go Radio it was Every Avenue. Finally after enduring two hours of loser bands it was finally time for Yellowcard. As they were set up, I waited in anticipation on my tip toes trying to see just a glimpse of one of the band members. You have to understand that to me these guys in the band are like my friends. I feel like I know them. I've seen every video that they've put up on Youtube and I've heard every song they've ever produced. If the the lead singer Ryan Key would have had laryngitis I probably could have sung all the songs for him.
The beginning had come. All the lights went off and then you could hear the sweet melodic voice of Ryan Key singing the chorus A Capella of The Sound of You and Me. Then they began. I could see all these guys I'd dreamed of seeing for so long playing those melodies so familiar to me. I saw Sean Mackin the Violinist, Sean O'donnell the bassist, Ryan Mendez the lead guitar, Ryan key lead singer and guitarist, and the percussionist Longineu Parsons. Oh boy that drum set was huge. I swear their must have been 25 different pieces that contributed to the whole set. It was incredible.
They began with The Sound of You and Me followed by For You and Your Denial. Directly after was Breathing from Ocean Avenue. I can't remember all the order but they played Five Becomes Four, With You Around, Lights and Sounds, Hollywood Died, Rough Landing Holly, Only One, Soundtrack, Way Away, Believe, Cut Me, Mick, Light up the Sky, Hang You Up, well, that's all I can remember right now. They finished and walked off stage. I was almost satisfied and my voice was gone. They had played Cut Me, Mick and Only One. Those were my demands for that concert, but everyone was yelling one more song. Finally Ryan Key came back on and played Empty Apartment Solo. Eventually the rest of the band joined and they played Rock Star Land, Sing For Me, Ocean Avenue, and they finished with Be The Young. It was so awesome. It is a memory that will go down in my life for ever. I'm so glad I went and finally had that experience.
I left that concert with so much more respect for them. The best thing was that it was just so much good, clean, fun. They were so respectful and polite. They especially refused to swear in Utah, unlike the other bands, who were good friends with the F–word. That time of just swaying back and forth to Only One with my voice gone was super awesome. There's nothing like a Yellowcard concert, so just for the record they are the best band ever, and they're just as good live as on the album. Just saying.
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