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Two... two...
two CDs in one! ! *wink* :D I still like
the old matching cover of CV2 better,
Welcome to my new and hopefully improved page of Third Day concert photos and clips. I've been a fan of the band since their first "Bus" CD back in 1996, but never actually attended my first concert until October of 2004 in Fayetteville, NC. Since then, I've been making up for lost time, catching several concerts a year, some up in Virginia, some down in South Carolina, and occasionally right here in North Carolina (although, apparently NOT for the fall leg of the WYA tour. Not even for the State Fair, where Third Day was one of only two concerts that sold OUT last year, and the first time I didn't have to drive for at least an hour and a half to see them. :( ) But I digress...
But enough about me, on with the Third Day concerts! All but the Fayetteville show were shot with my Nikon Coolpix 8800. Not the cheapest or smallest camera in the world, but it's great for everything from concert shots to astronomy pictures and everything in between, so I figure it was money well spent. The Fayetteville show was shot with my old Sony Mavica camera. It was cutting edge when I bought it, but compared to today's standards, it's very lo-res, and the floppy disc storage? Compared to needing just one 1 GB CF card, well, there's just no comparison. :) And as a complete side note, I'd just like to again say thank you to the band for including this page in their list of fan links in the blog on their website. That was kind of a neat surprise when I first saw it, and still tickles me to this day to see it up there. :) THE CONCERTS
Charlottesville Pavilion - Charlottesville, VA - August 26th, 2007 - Photos // Clips
Township Auditorium - Columbia, SC - November 17, 2006 - Photos // Clips
Next up: A repeat of the concert, in Columbia, SC this time. Should be another busy weekend: got the concert Friday night, then a 1PM Saturday showing of the new Bond flick "Casino Royale", dinner at the mall, and then a Carolina Hurricanes hockey game that night. Whew. I may need time off to recover from my time off. :D Bi-Lo Center - Greenville, SC - November 3, 2006 - Photos // Clips
Carolina Crossroads, Roanoke Rapids, NC - August 19, 2006 - Photos // Clips Got the pics and clips pages from the Kingsfest show at Kings Dominion in Doswell up and online. Five bands: Hyper Static Union, Falling Up, Hawk Nelson, Jeremy Camp, and gee, can't think of the name of that last band... *think think think*... oh YEAH. And Third Day. A couple of speakers, lots of flying stuff like shirts, Dr. Pepper bottles, sunshades. And someone actually brought "Gomer Bear" ;-) And best of all? RESERVED SEATING! Hallelujah! :D So much better than General Admission. And front row center for the first time ever to boot. Woot! :D And did anyone happen to catch the awesome moon that night? Two days short of being full, but still a pretty cool sight to behold. Got a couple of nifty shots of it behind the Eiffel Tower there in the Kings Dominion main plaza. Kings Fest, Kings Dominion, Doswell, VA - July 8, 2006 - Photos // Clips
Re the webpage construction, I split the difference this time; used my old program to set up the photo page, and the newer program to set up the clips page. So they're back on two different pages again, in two completely different styles, but at least this way it took less time to get them online and kept the pages not quite so cluttered. Knights Stadium, Ft. Mills, SC - July 1, 2006 - Photos // Clips
I used a different program to create the webpages this time, one of which I'm NOT sure I like yet, but I'll toss it out here and see what y'all think about it. Please post any comments, for or against, on the 3D board. Greensboro Coliseum, G'boro, NC - April 15, 2006 - Photos AND Clips
Vines Center, Lynchburg, VA - February 17, 2006 - Photos // Clips (Slow connection? I consolidated all the Lynchburg clips - including a few short bits that I didn't include on the clips page - into one 20 minute streaming Real Media highlight reel. Doesn't QUITE have the clarity of the originals, but it'll work, I think.)
Carolina Theatre, Durham, NC - November 16, 2005 - Photos // Clips
North Carolina State Fair - Raleigh, NC - October 21, 2005 - Photos // Clips
The Sonfest concert at Carowinds and the Kingsfest concert at Kings Dominion last year were only a couple of weeks apart, so I tend to lump them together. But the pics from Kingsfest, even getting downpoured upon from Tropical Storm Cindy, came out MUCH better than the ones at Carowinds. Guess I learned from my mistakes at the first show
Sonfest - Carowinds, SC - June 24, 2005 - Photos // Clips
Live Wire Tour - Fayetteville, NC - October 30, 2004 - Photos // Clips
A RECAP OF ALL THE SHOWS
Live Wire
Tour - Fayetteville, NC - October 30, 2004 -
Photos // Clips
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I've
been snapping pictures and shooting short movie clips at every
concert that I've been to thus far. In fact, I'd bet that if you saw
me you'd not actually recognize me unless I had a camera stuck in
front
of my face :) Like so. However, since I've never NOT worn my orange
Gomer shirt to a concert since I got it, even if you don't recognize
my face behind that camera, the shirt might very well be a dead
giveaway that it's me. Yes, tis I, The Unknown Gomer. :) 
After
thinking I wasn't going to get to see any of Third Day's summer
shows (no shortage of concerts though this year though; I saw Jeremy
Camp 3 different times: 
Last
concert of the tour for me, the show in Columbia, SC. I hadn't
been planning on going to this one, especially since I didn't know
it was actually going to be taking place until sometime after both
the pre-sale and general sale tickets had been put on sale already.
The last I'd heard was that this one was maybe going to be in
Kentucky, so I hadn't been paying a whole lot of attention to it.
In any case, I picked up a pair of second row (but all the way to
the left, so didn't see a lot of Brad or Scotty that night :( )
tickets on ebay and sat with fellow Gomer Betty for the night. It
was supposed to be Leeland, HSU, and Third Day, but the rumor
floating around was that HSU's bus broke down and they weren't going
to be there that night. Glad I saw them in Greenville then, short
set that it was. So it turned out to be just Leeland and Third Day. 
This
was a fun one, the Third Day/HSU/Leeland show in Greenville, SC.
Drove the two and a half hours to my friend Doug's place in Concord
first, then he drove us the two hours further into Greenville, where
we made it with just enough time to find our seats before HSU came
on. I was surprised to see them play FIRST, and such a short set to
boot :(, before Leeland took the stage for THEIR set. Then for the
main attraction. :) Great show, even if I was having to do a little
Todd-Dodging being in the second row (not to mention that I was
still hobbling around on a bad ankle from when I had a run in with
some uneven pavement in my driveway a few weeks back). Tai posed for
a few pics for me during the set, and Mac tossed me a guitar pick,
which was cool, even if it was initially fumbled. The rest of the
weekend was great too, hung out with Doug in Concord until Sunday;
he showed me the Concord Mills mall, had some great food at On The
Border, and I kicked his butt at miniature golf (if winning by all
of one stroke can be considered "kicking butt".)
It always seems
like I start out a new concert listing with "Finally!", but FINALLY,
I've got the pictures and the QT clips from the Carolina Crossroads
concert in Roanoke Rapids uploaded and ready for access. Great
concert. Third Day played first, which was a first for me, and then
Steven Curtis Chapman took the stage. Another first, I'm pretty much
unfamiliar with 99% of SCC's music and had never seen him live
before. I was impressed, although unlike with my first exposure to
Jeremy Camp at Kingsfest, after seeing SCC at Crossroads, I did NOT
get the burning desire to buy up every one of his CDs ever released
(it took me about 3 weeks, but I think I'm pretty well caught up on
all of JC's stuff now. :D )
