Mighty Mighty Bosstones

Facebook's ad targeting is really well targeted. Like, creepily stalkerish so.  The Mighty Mighty Bosstones played a free concert at Breckenridge this past Saturday, and Facebook was showing me an ad for it probably a month ago.

Of course, I was there with camera in hand.

Only in Colorado do you have to carry your saxophone across a ski slope for a gig.

Bosstone Ben Carr still looks like he's actually enjoying himself on stage.  God bless him.

Lead singer Dicky Barrett's guttural growl hasn't diminished with age.

With the stage set up on a slope I could barely see the heads of the guys in the horn section and couldn't see drummer Joe Sirois at all.  Fortunately, trombonist Chris Rhodes visited the front of the stage on occasion.

Dicky making the universal concert sign for "I can't hear you."

My first Bosstones show?  UMASS Amherst Pond Concert, spring of 1992.  We bounced straight up and down like this then, too.

Another classic concert trope: "Now you sing!"

Guitarist Lawrence Katz makes one of his infrequent forays to the front of the stage for a solo.

So this is what it feels like to sing 10,000 feet above sea level...

Ben dismissing Dicky's assertion that the Bosstone is "the nicest man he's ever met."

A solid 90-minute set with a terrific mix of old school stuff and more recent material.  An energetic and appreciative crowd, and the 40% chance of rain in the forecast never materialized.

I also discovered that in 2013, saying that the pictures you're shooting are for "your blog" is not impressive enough to get you in front of the ropes.  Lesson learned.