I spent most of this weekend in Indianapolis watching musical performances.

On Friday night, I went with one of my Fraternity brothers to a Nickelback concert at the Verizon Wireless Music Center. By utilizing some connections, we got nearly free tickets. The opening bands, Course of Nature and 7 Dust, were decent, but I don’t particularly care for either of their songs. Nickelback, however, was fantastic. They played all of their hits, some unrecorded stuff, and ‘unplugged’ versions of some of their songs. Along with the music, they put on a great visual effect show featuring a plethora of pyrotechnics. It was a good concert.

Saturday morning, I went with another one of my Brothers to the Drum Corps International midwest championships. We went to support another Brother, Martin (who also happened to be my freshman floor’s SA). We got to see a dozen drum corps from around the country compete in the RCA Dome. The show was great. Afterwards, we met up with Martin at a local middle school. We hung out for a few minutes, at which point Martin had to start a practice which would last the next four hours. We departed and began the trip back to Terre Haute.