I Was So Deadje77

We like to party...we like, we like to party. Do I like electronic music? Yes. Yes I do. Does Caitlin like it as well? Sometimes...but definitely in concert. Was I excited to see Deadmau5 this year? So much so that I did it twice. Here's the story.

Last July, you may remember Caitlin deserted me for 10 days and went to Idaho? Hard to believe, I know...but she did. No baby boy in my life, no wife? What's a man to do? I'll tell you what he does. He gets a bunch of 16-year-old kids to go with him to a Deadmau5 concert at Soldier Field. And that is what I did.

Now I know that sounds creepy, and it is I guess. But one of the boys in my Young Men's program at church shares a love for house music like I do. He heard I was going to go and knowing that having a church leader attend with him would extremely heighten the chance that his parents would let him go downtown to a concert all night. So we joined teams...and then several of his high-school friend joined along.

It was a freakin' amazing show. I danced so hard I sweat through the knee section of my pants. It was a very young crowd - so young, in fact, that I got asked how old I was three times and my friend Mitchell got asked if I was his dad twice. TWICE! A little offensive, but I also thought, "yeah, I'm cool even at the ripe old age of 31 (now 32)."

So when I heard that Deadmau5 was coming back, I wanted to go and do it right by bringing my woman with me. I knew Caitlin would have a good time at the concert and I love dancing with her at shows. It was at the Congress theater last night and started at 8:30. Our young friend from church and another guy from church that has since graduated from high school came along for the craziness. We really, really like this venue. Very open, roomy and the sound was wonderful.

The first DJ was Skrillex, who is much more dubstep and I found to be extremely awesome. I was really diggin' this guy. He knew how to hype his audience and get the dance explosions out of them, which I don't think is as easy since dubstep is more about unpredictability and style...not dancing. That guy played until about 9:45 and by the end I looked at the clock and couldn't believe how exhausted I was. A girl next to us said the night before the concert ended at 2am...that seemed impossible to dance another 4 hours.

But then Booka Shade came on. They were great and I was already familiar with several of their albums. They play electronic drums and stuff, so there is a little more going on on stage to watch. The time flew as they played an hour or so until 11. They finished with one of my favorite BS songs - Tribulations, which was a crowd pleaser in every way. Thousands of people, a sea of jumping up and down, hands in the air.

By then I was very excited and ready to go the long haul. We had to wait until about 11:40 for them to set up Deadmau5's cube and set. Its quite the light show (see videos below). He came out and the concert was full on until 1:30. Seriously, nearly five straight hours of dancing before our backs gave out and we had to go to the back and sit down for the last song. I'd say its cause we are old, but I think we went harder than almost anyone in that audience. If you don't know the music, click on either of the two videos below from last night's concert to get a glimpse of what an exciting and fun experience it is to go to this show:

This is Deadmau5's most popular song "Ghosts 'n Stuff", and certainly an amazing crowd pleaser. Watch for him dressing up in a ghost costume during the song. Nice touch.

My favorite song of the night? "The Reward is Cheese" I love this song live. He also played more of my favorites like Strobe, Some Chords, I Remember, You Need a Ladder, and Complications.

We got home around 2:45. A friend of ours took Max for the evening and he was only a little annoyed when we pulled him out of his pack 'n play at 2:30 in the morning and drove him home. I love that baby. Our final take on the night was that our ears were beyond pleased, but our eyes were sometimes displeased. I know one would expect it at a club scene like this, but there were just too many whore-ish young girls and disgusting men at this concert, and their actions were often too obscene for the public. We had to really concentrate on staring only at the stage, which is hard to do for 5 hours. I wish we could have replaced the hookers with some hipsters - that would have made it a much better show. It didn't certainly make for some amazing people watching.

Next? LCD Soundsystem on Tuesday and Sleigh Bells on Wednesday. Then we need to take a break. I tired.