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Gin Blossoms + Ambrosia at Spirit Mountain Casino
Overall
- That’s right folks, that says Spirit Mountain Casino and Gin Blossoms. Both are firsts for MHCP.
- This is how you too could have ended up with tickets for this:
- Step 1: Drink a lot of wine with your friend/neighbor.
- Step 2: Listen to your friend/neighbor’s “90’s Jams” playlist.
- Step 3: Sing and laugh when Allison Road is played.
- Step 4: Learn from sober observer that Gin Blossoms are on tour.
- Step 5: Buy tickets before the song is over.
- Step 6: After learning the casino hotel is sold out, convince your parents to drive you and your friends so that you all may participate in the drinking that will occur at this concert.
- The picture above of the venue sets the scene for what the casino is like as a music venue. There is carpet. There are hundreds of chairs lined up. It’s not pictured but the bar is in the way back of the room near the bleachers. Bleachers!
Ambrosia
- Me: “I feel like I’m at the dentist”
- Friend: “The rock and roll dentist”
- Number of drink required to get through Ambrosia’s set: 3.
Gin Blossoms
- To be fair, they sounded great. I’m not a big enough fan to know who are the original members and who aren’t, but they had good chemistry and were all fine musicians.
- They played all the songs you know and love (and there a lot of them) intermixed with some newer songs that were popular in the Philippines. They knew what people came to hear.
- Allison Road, the song that got us there in the first place, was played fairly early in their set. During this song, the audience rushed to the front of the stage.
- The lead singer kept grabbing peoples phones and taping himself singing.
- If you ever wanted to play the tambourine, go see this band. They have like 6 of them that they pass around to the audience.
In Conclusion
I give this show 10 stars. Parents driving me a Gin Blossoms concert? Yeah it's definitely 1992 all over again. Five stars for that. Another five stars because it isn’t 1992 anymore.
xoxo A
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