365 project, "come and go with me/to my Father's house/come and go with me/to my Father's house"

172.

Artist: Audio Adrenaline
Album: Hit Parade

The third concert I ever attended in my life was an Audio Adrenaline concert. I am amazed at the vivid memories I have of that night, although most of them are hazy. I know that I went with Devon (who I haven’t even spoken to in years. I *think* we are facebook friends)  and that we danced like fools to the song Hands And Feet. I feel like there was a lot of merch on that church pew, but if you asked me to tell you what we bought that night, I’d be unable. I am pretty sure that I had an Audio Adrenaline poster, so its likely that came from this concert. I also can’t remember definitely how we actually got to the show that night, but my guess would be that Kathi drove, since most of the concert-attending I did during my short stint at Waynesburg happened with Kath.

One of the first CD’s I bought when I was getting my toes wet in the CCM pool was Wow 1999. It was two disks and it had over 30 tracks of the best of CCM for that year. The first disk was the more rock and roll stuff, and the second was more of the mellow, Praise & Worship kind of stuff, so the first disk got a few more spins. On that disk was the song Chevette, and listening to it now I don’t understand it, but at the time, I thought it was a fantastic song.  

Speaking of that song, I remember watching a football game in the kitchen with my parents one night while I was still in college, or just out, and seeing a commercial for one of the major car companies. At the end of the commercial, the announcer said “and hey, no one ever wrote a song about their Chevette.” I IMMEDIATELY called Kathi, and she had seen the commercial as well. I wanted to call someone to yell at them, because that obviously was a lie, but this was before the internet became a staple in everyone’s homes, and well before the advent of Google, so I didn’t know who to call. Someone must have done something, though, because I never did see that commercial again.

There are so many fun songs on this album, and there are a lot of memories wrapped up into those songs. I don’t care how cheesy it is, the song DC-10 still makes me dance around like a maniac (even at four am, which was the case early this morning.) Dancing around my living room took me right back to that dorm room in Burns Hall and the dancing that happened up there. I had really bad luck when it came to roommates at Waynesburg, so I spent a lot of time alone in the room, which sucked for socializing, but was fantastic for dancing.

I don’t know what has come over me lately with this onslaught of old CCM stuff popping up to be listened to, but it is making me remember who I was, and I’m wondering if maybe I am on the road headed back to a similar version of myself.