It's been a music sort of week...

After coming off wonderful Summer Sonic on Sunday, we learned that Gym Class Heroes (a rap/pop band) would be giving a free concert on the American base on Tuesday night. Gym Class Heroes performed at Summer Sonic, but John and I were busy seeing so many other bands that we didn't have the time to catch them.

The cool thing about American military bases overseas is that military morale offices (MWR, USO) are constantly trying to bring big name acts to the base. For this concert, the base was not "open" which means that only personnel allowed to be on the base were allowed in the concert. It was outdoors and the night was perfect.Oh, did I mention the concert was free?

John and I arrived about 30 minutes after the concert started. There were only about 200-300 people gathered around the small stage. For those that don't know, Gym Class Heroes is a fairly big name band. The lead singer once dated Katie Perry (big name pop artist). This band was giving a concert to only a couple of hundred people. Getting to the front of the stage was no problem since the crowd was so small. The band had a great time entertaining us. They talked, sang and joked around with the audience for more than an hour. Afterwards, they stuck around to take pictures with people.

It was a really cool experience and very much what I imagine a private show would be like. The band stated that they got to tour some of the Navy ships before performing and they were really impressed with the massive pieces of machinery that are the Navy boats. I have a feeling they didn't get paid their usual concert fee to do this, but instead did it out of their love of performing and desire to entertain the "troops." They seemed like genuinely nice guys.

It was a wonderful evening and we really enjoyed dancing and singing to their songs. Here's some pictures: