Garth!!!

I love Garth Brooks.  I had a chance to see him way back in 1991 when he was the opening act for the Judds and I was only 14 years old.  When I found out he was coming back to Salt Lake I knew I wanted tickets!  We were able to get pretty decent seats to the October 30th show.  We were on the side of the stage, but only about 16 rows up so I was really happy about that.  He is so awesome that he charges the same exact price whether you're on the last row in the upper bowl, or the front row center.  He also added 2 extra shows in town so that there would be less scalping of tickets.  He wants to make sure that everyone who wants to see him can without breaking the bank.  He's such an awesome guy!

The crowd went WILD for Garth!  We were all on our feet the entire show.  He is such a huge entertainer that it didn't even matter that the Delta Center (or whatever it's called now) has crappy acoustics.  It doesn't matter because every person in the arena was singing along to every song.  So fun!!

Here's a shot of everyone with their cell phone lights on during one of the love songs.  It was amazing how much all those phones really lit up the place!

The drummer was sitting inside this cool circular cage thing that would light up different colors.  Here's Garth climbing on it.  He really is just a giant kid at heart.

Trisha Yearwood came out about halfway through.  She is great too.  She sang about 5 songs and it was fun to see them sing together.  (I didn't realize that they had both collaborated and sung back-up vocals on each other's albums for years before they got married.)

Toward the end of the show they said there was a special surprise guest.  It ended up being John Stockton, who came to announce that Garth had set a record for the most tickets sold for a single performer ever in the arena.  They even unveiled a banner in the arena for it.

Our show got over around 10:00 pm and the poor guy seemed just exhausted.  His voice was a little hoarse and he seemed pooped out!  But he had another show to do at 10:30!  Our friend had tickets to that one and I asked how it was...he said that when Garth came out he said something like, "I know it's late, but I'll make you a deal.  As long as you keep standing and have energy, I'll keep going too."  Apparently he went until 2:00 am!  He is just an amazing entertainer.  So FUN!!!