Well, yesterday Matt Kiisel from work and I drove up to Boise to see Collective Soul. Unfortunatley the sound guys sucked as it was mixed horribly! The venue was tiny however! Probably 200ft by 200ft. This included 3 tour busses, a small box truck for equipment and the stage. Also there were porta-potties in the space and vendor booths selling t-shirts and overpriced drinks. After about 4 songs security asked me to go with them. I was recording the concert with my mini-disc recorder. I had to give them the disk, then take the recorder out to my car. I missed 2 songs. But because I was very cooperative with them they let me back in. Ed kept getting pissed off at the sound guys and would walk over to the side, yell at them, then come back and rock out. Despite all their problems they really played for the croud. They talked about their new album "Youth" coming out in Sept/Oct. They played a couple new songs which was really cool. Right before they closed with "Shine" they played "Highway to Hell" which was fun to sing along to! After "Shine" Ed through his pick into the crowd and Matt got it. Punk. We then drove back, getting back home about 3:45 AM. Long but great day!