Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood are playing 9 concerts in Kansas City and we were fortunate enough to go to the Tuesday night concert (#2 in the 9 night set). The good Lord was looking out for us because we were able to park on the street on the corner of 11th and Grand for free. When we walked to the Sprint Center we saw that the line to get into the building wrapped around the building for two blocks. So Jay went exploring and found some doors that had very short lines and we got inside in about 10 minutes.
We found our way to our seats and the concert started at 7:33pm. Trisha opened the night and sang for about 30 minutes. Then there was a 45 minute intermission while they tore down her bands equipment and put Garth's band's stuff up.
At the start of the concert we heard "I said a little prayer tonight before I came on stage and I came walking past the walkers and the drivers on the union wage. I asked the Good Lord up in heaven Let me treat the music right and then I prayed Kansas City goes wild tonight". A white piano came up in the middle of the stage with a man wearing a white cowboy hat. Then a guy came up out of the center of the piano wearing a cowboy hat, he quickly pulled out a fiddle. Then when the words "Kansas City" were sung Garth popped up in front of the piano from a trap door under the stage.
The concert was awesome and Garth was incredibly funny! What was really funny was when he started to sing "Two Pina Coladas" he was strumming a guitar. After the first verse he stopped playing, giggled, and said "okay, humor the old man and we'll sing it in the right key"...he'd messed up and was playing in the wrong key. Too funny!
Our seats were WAY up in the nosebleed section. It was high enough to make my knees shake and make me sick to my stomach. Even Jay was feeling a little woozy. But the concert was still AWESOME!
Jay went to the concert again for #3, but despite the fact that he had a ticket to tonights concert #4 he's not going. He decided to stay at home with the children and myself.
