It was May, 2010, and the TV show, Lost was in its final season. We were the most faithful of fans, re-watching every season each year leading up to the new season, and then religiously attending the free screenings of the show at the Dallas Angelika movie theater every week. And now, it all came down to a two-hour finale.
So, the weekend before the finale, we created a concert made up almost entirely of songs featured on Lost. We reminisced about that heart-warming beach montage as we played Joe Purdy's "Wash Away;" we remembered the first time we met Desmond Hume as we joyfully sang Mama Cass's "Make Your Own Kind of Music;" we memorialized Charlie Pace in our "Charlie Pace medley," which included Oasis's "Wonderwall," the Beach Boys's "Good Vibrations," and, of course, Drive Shaft's "You all, everybody;" and we remembered the moment on the show when Hurley's MP3 player stopped working and we knew things were getting serious as we played Damien Rice's "Delicate." If you look very closely, in the video, you can see a tiny Dharma symbol on my right shoulder (my hair keeps getting in the way), and the picture on Adam's shirt is of the band, Geronimo Jackson. (We were really big
It was a glorious concert -- an evening filled with hope and joy and the idealism of people who believe that their favorite TV show will not leave them disappointed. We knew that in just a couple of days, all our questions from the previous years would be answered, and we would walk away satisfied. This concert was our tribute.
Alas, that did not happen. Adam and I were both bitterly disappointed with Lost's ending, which I won't give away here. And that concert stands in my memory as truly a time of a kind of innocence. Sounds silly, I know. The saddest part is, there weren't even any real Lost fans in attendance. It was only after the show was over that someone showed up and started geeking out over Adam's Geronimo Jackson shirt.
But we sure had a lot of fun making our own kind of music.
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