Hello folks. We are off on our alphabet adventure every day for the month of April, not including Sundays. If you’re new here, welcome. As I mentioned in my Theme reveal, this is my 9th year participating in this abecedarium. Once again I am going to merge my two favorite things, concert going and scrapbooking. Some of the shows I haven’t been able to scrapbook yet because we have been to so many and I am quite behind. The first time I did this theme for the A to Z I didn’t finish on time because I wanted to scrapbook each concert before I posted it and that put a lot of pressure on me. The second time I scrapbooked one or two pages for each one but that left me with a lot of unfinished concerts to work on and I don’t like that either. This time I’m not going to worry if the shows are not in the scrapbooks yet. I have pictures and videos and that will work.
Okay, enough chatter. Up first is Bryan Adams. He has always been a favorite of mine but we hadn’t seen him live before so I was excited when I saw he was coming to the SAP Center. We got tickets on the floor and I thought they were pretty good but about a week before the show I happened to see that there were a bunch of tickets closer for the same price. I contacted Ticketmaster because for some shows if you find better seats closer you can make an exchange. This is where we ended up.
As a scrapbooker one of the things that makes me sad is that most of the time tickets are sent electronically and are on your phone. That means I have no ticket to use in my album. For Bryan Adams, there was a commemorative ticket issued! The problem is the ticket was for our original seats. Still, you can see how much closer we got, from row 29 to row 9!
While waiting for the show to start we try to take a selfie. It is all for the scrapbook, you know? This was the “So Happy It Hurts” tour. All of a sudden a car started floating across the auditorium. There were no strings attached and at first I couldn’t figure out how they were making it float. Then off in the corner I could see a guy with a remote control. You can see him if you look quickly at the beginning of the video right before I zoom in.
When the car got back behind the stage it was time to start the show. Bryan and the guys came right out and started off with “Kick Ass,” which got us all up on our feet where we remained most of the night. At 64 he still has lots of energy and really seems to love what he is doing. He is a very personable guy and had a lot of stories to tell about the songs and went through most of his hits.
At one point he looked through the crowd and there was a woman with a sign that said she wanted to sing with him. He got down from the stage and went into the audience and sang with her. She wasn’t bad actually. Then he asked for song requests. A few folks shouted out some tunes and he sang them. The band sang a total of 29 songs for us and it was really a great show. Better because we were so close!
As I do when I’m scrapbooking, for each of the shows I’ll include the details:
- Date: January 26, 2024
- Venue: SAP Center, San Jose, California
- Artist/Tour: Bryan Adams/So Happy It Hurts Tour
- Setlist:
- Kick Ass
- Can’t Stop This Thing We Started
- Somebody
- 18 til I Die
- Please Forgive Me
- Shine a Light
- Room Service
- Heaven
- Go Down Rockin’
- It’s Only Love/The Best (Tina Turner tribute)
- You Belong to Me
- I’ve Been Looking for You
- The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me is You
- I Will Always Return
- Here I Am
- Thought I’d Died and Gone to Heaven
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You
- Back To You
- So Happy It Hurts
- Run to You
- Summer of ’69
- What if There Were No Sides at All
- When You’re Gone (with the fan)
- Lonely Nights (fan request)
- Cloud Number Nine (fan request)
- Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman (fan request)
- Cuts Like a Knife
- Encore:
- Straight From the Heart
- All For Love (Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart, Sting cover)
I’ll leave you now with one of my favorites from the evening.
Hope you enjoyed the Bryan Adams Concert. Come by tomorrow and see which performer fills the letter B. Make sure to stop by some of the other folks who are also going through A to Z Challenge this year. You never know what you’ll learn!
Janet's Smiles 
Those were truly excellent tickets! What a different it makes, not only for the photos, but for the experience. Only had as good tickets as you when I saw Luther Vandross in London (a long, long time ago now!)
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Oh, Luther Vandross would have been a good one!
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I bought the most recent album… I didnt enjoy it but I do love the music he made for us when I was a young man š
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It is interesting that when we go to these shows we want to hear what we know, not what is new.
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Great set list — I know most of those songs! I haven’t listened to Bryan Adams for a while; probably time to add him to my playlist again.
Ronel visiting for A: My Languishing TBR: A
Abominable Wraiths
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It’s funny how we forget about some artists until we hear a song and then think Oh yeah, I like that!
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While I’ve always loved music, I never went to many concerts. I think my first one was the Beach Boys when I lived in Georgia. You should make yourself a coffee table book of your concerts from this challenge.
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I am in the process of scrapbooking all the shows we’ve been to. I have 7 books so far!
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Gotta love it when you screw up your signature…
I mean to sign it
Barbie
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I’ve been having a problem with my signature too. Wonder if it’s a WP thing?
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Very cool!āAt first I was expecting ‘young’ Bryan, then I realized it’s current.āEven more cool.āSo looking forward to your posts.āI love this time of year…I just wish there was more of it and we could bottle it all up.āāŗ
Cheers,
<a href= https://crackerberries.wordpress.com/>Barbie</a>
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I agree, Barbie. Or at least another month of it later in the year. Or maybe once a season?
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Great start Janet!
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Thanks Wendy!
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Looks like a lot of fun! Great start!
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Thanks John! Let’s hope I can keep it going. I am not as prepped as I was last year!
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Love all the details of your concert write ups, Janet! Great photos as well. š It is too bad they no longer issue physical tickets. We’ve always collected them too. That said, I take screenshots of them from the Ticketmaster phone app, then print them out as photos. You’d need a photo printer, or you could just use a regular printer using photo paper. It’s nice to have commemorative tickets too, sometimes. I’m looking forward to your other concerts posts. Best wishes for a successful month! (I quit doing this years ago – couldn’t handle the stress of daily blogging. š)
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It is a challenge to keep up for sure. I take a screenshot of the tickets from my phone and print them too, except when I forget – LOL
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Hi Janet, Wow you have made your ‘A’ post an awesome concert experience.āGreat pictures, video and explanation of how it all becomes a Scrapbook treasure.ā
This is Sue from CollectInTexas Gal.āMy new blog is somewhat of a spin-off of CollectInTexas Gal.āDue to some life changes, it seemed like time to move on to the next phase of life and blogging.āI’ve joined the AtoZ Challenge 2024, and it’s good to be back in Blogland.āSo glad to reconnect with you.āMy email is the same, but with a new blog name…here’s the link…come see me!
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I will definitely come check in on you, Sue. Thanks for stopping by here. Glad you liked the concert!
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This was fun! I sure enjoyed hearing all about the concert and the song was good. Made me feel like I was right there, too.
Great beginning to the A to Z! š
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Thanks Barbara!
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Hi, Janet!
I think I finally figured out the 5-step process of signing-in and getting my comment submitted successfully.āWe shall see, dear friend. :)āI’m very happy to see you and thank you for coming to visit me at Shady’s Place today.
Congratulations on jumping into another hectic A to Z Challenge!āI know this year’s theme will interest many people, and I am already excited that you and Bill got to see Canadian rock star Bryan Adams at a venue near you.āYou guys were lucky to be able to advance 20 rows closer to the stage at no extra cost.āRecently, I found Bryan’s new, updated “classic version” of “Cuts L:ike A Knife” on YouTube and was astounded by its power and clarity.āIn that 2022 video, Bryan sounds just as good as he did decades ago, if not better.āI’m delighted to learn that he was still going strong the night you caught his show and that you were on your feet much of the time.āThat’s saying something!āWhat a way to get the crowd ready for the SHIH show – a floating car!āYou captured an excellent clip as it cruised above you, and the pictures you took during the show are equally good.āIt’s nice to know that Bryan is as nice a guy as he appears to be, and that he even indulged the woman in the audience who wanted to sing with him.āThat’s the mark of a musician who clearly cares about his fans. Looking over his playlist, it’s good to see that he included his big chart hits “Somebody,” “Heaven,” “Run To You” and “Summer of ’69” along with “Knife.” He and his band sounded terrific on “Can’t Stop This Thing We Started.”
I certainly did enjoy this sampling of Bryan Adams’ concert.āYour 2024 A to Z marathon is off to a great start.āMrs. Shady and I have an appointment across town tomorrow, but I will swing by for your “B” post at some point, and I also pledge to be here for your “C” post before dropping out of sight for a few weeks. I promise to return at the end of the month to cheer you across the finish line.āTake care and have a wonderful month, dear friend Janet!
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I did have to rescue you from the trash my friend. So crazy that WP doesn’t realize how close we have become. Appreciate your kind comments and visits whenever they occur!
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My wife is a big fan of Bryan, but we have never seen him in concert together.āLooking forward to all of your posts.āhttps://dave-homeschooldad.blogspot.com/2024/04/a-to-z-2024-is-for-adult-children.html
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Thanks Dave. I’ll be over to visit you soon!
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sounds like a fantastic night! Love how personal he got and allowed for so many requests. I donāt even know every song on your list! āRoom Serviceā?
however I know who usually plays at SAP Arena š¦
happy blogging!
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Yes ma’am it is the home of that hockey team. Actually this was the first show we had seen there since the pandemic! I didn’t know every song either.
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Love the theme, and would love to see Bryan Adams in concert!!
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It was a great show. Thanks for stopping by!
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Wow! What amazing photos for an amazing memory. Well done!
https://dbmcnicol.com/a-afterthought/
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Thanks Deb. I take a lot of pictures hoping to get a few good ones. Close seats help!
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sounds like a great concert!āCan’t wait to see what other concerts you are going to share with us.
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Thanks Mary! Hopefully I won’t disappoint.
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I love that you get to so many concerts. How fun.
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Thanks! I think I’m trying to make up for all those years we never went.
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We have been doing that too! š
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