From the getting old sucks department:

A couple months ago, I made plans to attend a Dream Theater concert here in Orlando at the Hard Rock Cafe on May 31st. Got the tickets and realized it's really a day long festival called "The Progressive Nation Tour".

Not even ten years ago my first thought would have been something like, cool, bonus deal, new bands to discover. Now I'm thinking,
"Great, now I have to sit through 3 other bands I don't care about, I'm going to have to spend money on food and drinks..." What the hell happened to me.

In addition, thanks to technology, I've been able to go on You-tube and see video of the other bands playing, and realized that two of the three contain fantastic musicians, but they have those singers that don't so much sing as grunt, which seems to be in vogue for metal bands. So I already have this negative attitude about the show that I'm going to conciously have to fight in order to enjoy the band I want to see.

Anyway, here's a little ditty from Dream Theater from the Train of Thought album: