Thursday can’t come soon enough, I mean I cannot wait!!. I’m going on see OAR again. Happy Birthday to me!!

This is my all time favorite band. I would quit my job and follow them like the Grateful Dead if I could. I wouldn’t even think twice about it.

This is how much I love them and I have loved them for what seems like forever now. I still remember the first time I heard their unique sound and not just because I got insulted that day.

Way back in 2003 or 2004 I was in Best Buy to get a GPS for my new job as a public health nurse and I heard this band on the stereo system in the store. I just had to know who they were!

They had a unique reggae/ rock sound that intrigued me from the jump. That is my genre of choice usually. There’s just something so relaxing about reggae. I love Sublime also and Badfish, but OAR just hits me in a different way.

Anyway, with great joy, I found someone who worked there in hopes of finding out who this band was.

“Who is this band playing?” I asked with glee.

The teenager behind the counter was like “Oh, you like that? It’s OAR ma’am.”

Wait a minute! Ma’am? Ma’am? What?

This happened to me at TicketMaster once too trying to get Pearl Jam tickets. I was only 29, why was the snotty kid asking me if I knew who Pearl Jam was? OF COURSE, I knew who they were. Wasn’t I trying to get tickets to see them? Come on kid work with me here.

Anyway, I digress. This happened a few years after OAR at Best Buy but still…

Now I was no teenager, but I did have to use face cream at that stage in my life and I guess it showed?

I swallowed a sarcastic remark and moved on. I needed this music in my life.

Once listened to more I didn’t care. She pointed me to the rack of CDs and I then began my sixteen-year love affair with OAR.

I see them every year and only missed once when I had to study for a nursing exam.

This Thursday I am going with my daughter, not the YouTube daughter, my other one. She is my concert buddy and has been since she was a little kid. I have a few friends that I call concert friends, people I see at the concerts. But only at the concerts, you know. But she is by far my first choice to be with, always.

Every year for my birthday she takes me to see OAR. One year we switched it up and went to see Metallica on Mother’s day. This is a child after my own heart.

I have two daughters that I dragged to concerts all their lives but only one chooses to go with me now. That’s fine. My other girl and I do things together too that don’t include getting smashed in a mosh pit or going deaf from loud music, maybe she’s the smart one, I dont know.

My husband isn’t too much into it either, he likes live music but only a certain kind. Truth be told I broke up with him in high school and one of the reasons was that we could never agree on music back then and it seemed so important at the time.

Now that we are older and wiser, and I have taken him to OAR and Badfish and some others but he is not a huge fan. That’s ok, there’s much more to our relationship now.

Actually, he and I only agree on a certain genre of music (punk rock) and usually, he listens to *OMG* country music.

I listen to everything but.

This Thursday is going to rock. We have pit seats and I am so excited!!

It’s Monday and already the week is going to drag but also it’s a short week for me and at the end is OAR. Come on Thursday get here soon!!