David Given Schwarm

 Brett & I went to a Thursday night show at the Observatory in Santa Ana to watch a fairly straight ahead night of Ska. The opening band was a young group from East LA which had that High School Band Kids enthusiasm which is likely my favorite thing about Ska–you know, that early No Doubt…

The HBO broadcast of the U2 Show in Paris–which had originally been canceled because of terrorist actions–was out right amazing. The production was similar to the rest of the tour, but the opening and closing were amazingly powerful…not a band I am generally that big a fan of, but this was an outright amazing show.