A Good Night Rocking Out in Brooklyn
Posted By Kathleen David on June 12, 2011
Yesterday Peter and I sojourned to Brooklyn to see the free Coheed and Cambria concert that was being held at Waterfront Park. Nice venue with a lovely view if you can see across the river.
Coheed and Cambria, if you don’t know, is a progressive rock group with a serious science fiction bend along with story telling lyrics. Sort of Styx with a lot more metal. Most of their albums tell a chapter from a much longer saga called the Armory Wars.
How did we get all mixed up in this? Well Claudio’s wife Chondra read Tigerheart and really liked the voice. Claudio wanted to do the next album as a book as well as a CD. They met with Peter a couple of New York Comic Cons ago and everyone got along really well. Since then Peter has co-written a novel and a number of comic books with Chondra and Claudio.
At this point Peter had met the band and Caroline was in one of their music videos with Peter. Peter and Ariel had seen them in Madison Square Gardens a while back. Peter and I had planned on seeing them in Central Park last year but then Peter’s back gave out and we had to cancel. When we were informed they were playing in Brooklyn, we decided to go for our anniversary this year.
The weather had been threatening all day. We had a couple of heavy downpours but decided to give it a go anyway. We drove into Brooklyn through the rain but the time we got to Brooklyn, it was a little chilly but not raining. The fog had rolled in and seeing to the other side of the river was difficult but not impossible. We caught up with Blaze and got our magic all access wrists bands and headed back stage.
I have to say that all access is nice. We were able to wander where we wanted to and had a great area to stand and watch the concert from. We caught up with the guys backstage, chatted with their friends and family. Chondra and I got caught up from a conversation we had at New York Comic Con that we didn’t get to finish. It was a nice social time with adults.
The concert itself was a lot of fun. The sound was loud but not over powering. The band rocked the night away until the 10 pm sound curfew and took their bows. We said our good-byes and got home rather late with, of course, some ringing in our ears. It had been a very good evening.
I am grateful that I know the band Coheed and Cambria.
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