Eric Clapton PNC Bank Arts Center

After getting through the crazy traffic on Parkway South, we arrived at the Eric Clapton concert around 8:00, so we missed the first act just finishing up some amazing covers of Jimi Hendrix songs. Eric arrived on stage and the place went nuts, and despite arriving late—we had decent seats.

Clapton covered a great variety of his career, from Blues to Current, and he even had a little acoustic jam session in the middle. No "I Shot the Sheriff", but I did get to hear my favorite two songs of all time "Running on Faith" and "Cocaine", which I for some reason didn't think that he ever played live anymore after the addiction.

All in all it was an amazing night, and the weather held out. The smell in the air was that of cheap cigars and with a heavy mixture of the sweat leaf–but it's a Clapton concert and the hippies were in full display. I was so glad to get tickets for the show because the place sold out, and it was an unforgetable evening. Clapton was top on my "must see" and I am so glad to be able to start picking some of these names off the must see list. Next on my list is the Heartbreakers, Aerosmith, and the list goes on.

Below I posted a few sound clips from the night, but be aware they are pretty ugly quality.

Clapton 1
Clapton 2
Clapton 3

First visit to Coca-Cola Park

I attended my first of many Lehigh Valley IronPigs games last night versus the Norfolk Tides where we lost in the 8th inning 9-6 because a fan reached over the wall and touched the hit. The weather made most of the night miserable because it was a light mist that soaked everything, made for horrible field conditions, and forced most of the crowd underneath the bandstands to jockey for a view of the action. Overall I thought the field looked great. It is impressive to see what 50-million will buy, but depressing to see the amount of fans that showed. I hope it was due to the weather, and not an every game occurrence because if that's the case–I don't know how long the Pigs will be able to survive. One of the things I enjoy most about Citizen's Bank Park is when the bell rings after a homerun from a Phillie. At Coca-Cola park, the pop top raises on the Coke bottle, and fireworks shoot out, so that was pretty neat. I think they push the "Pig" references a little heavy there though (ie. "The Giant Porker Sandwiches", the crowd cheering "Oink, oink, oink!" like it Mighty Ducks, and the plastic pig nostrils they sell over at "The Fan Zone". Overall it was a good night, too bad the Pigs couldn't pull out a win and clench their first series sweep, but I look forward to attending more games this summer when things warm up.


Go Pigs!!!