Tuesday, June 30, 2015

"The most beautiful sound I'd ever heard"

Well...I came here to see if I could figure out when I first saw Dave Matthews Band live. I think it was 2000 and LiveTrax 34 is being released and it is from June 24, 1999 at Deer Creek Music Center. How great would it be if it were the first Dave show I attended? I don't believe that's the case, but I should be able to find the old ticket stub or the newspaper article I submitted to the Herald Bulletin after attending.

To catch future Berg up on the past four years, I moved into our Health & Benefits practice in 2012 and my career has been evolving since that time, continuing on a trajectory heading north. I am blessed and grateful. It has been a great place to work for the first 9 years of my career. In 2015, I took over the Cincinnati and Columbus markets as well.

More importantly, on a personal level, Rogers and I are in the process of adopting our first child. We have been in the process for about 10 months or so and are officially on a waiting list and have been for some time. We hope to bring a baby home later in 2015.

I am still as interested in music as I have always been. I heard recently you stop listening to new music after the age of 32. We shall see if that's the case... it won't surprise me too much, but I like to think I'll continue to gravitate to the young whipper snappers coming up well into my 40s.

I am in the process of decorating my office at home with all of the various set lists and memorabilia I have collected from the past 10 years of concert-going. Setlists and memorabilia include:
Gin Blossoms, Florence & The Machine, Counting Crows, Toad the Wet Sprocket (autographed), Arcade Fire (2x), Ray Lamontagne (autographed), The Killers (3x), Weezer, Imogen Heap, No Doubt, David Gray (2x), The National (2x), A Fine Frenzy, Coldplay, William Fitzsimmons (2x), Better Than Ezra (2 or 3x + football + drumstick) and likely a few others I am forgetting.

Concerts this year have or will include:
  • U2 on July 2 in Chicago
  • Brandon Flowers in Columbus
  • Dave Matthews Band 2x at Deer Creek / Klipsch
  • Will Butler in Bloomington in April
  • And likely a few more... we shall see.

I am thinking of taking up comedy. I've got a few bits I'm working up, and have my eye on an open mic night in Broad Ripple to jump in. And we shall see about that too.