God I Love My iPhone

I have talked before about how much I love my iPhone in terms of music, but mostly that has been all about the Pandora application.  When I was first introduced to Pandora I couldn't stop telling people about it.  Now two years later I can't help but tell people about what I think are the best stations.  So when I got my iPhone I was beyond excited to be able to travel with Pandora, but there have been other great aspects to my iPhone that I never realized would so influence my musical life.

The first is that you can download music anywhere.  This has been so useful at concert.  Before I would go to a show and hear the opening band and often think, wow that was really good.  I never really bought their album at the shows because they are way over priced and there's usually a crowd around the artist trying to become buddies with the people they just saw on stage.  So I was left with trying to remember who it was I saw and getting to a record store or finding them on iTunes once I remembered.  But those days are over.  Two weeks ago at the Them Crooked Vultures concert I was able to look up online the name of the opening band (cause you really couldn't understand what the lead singer was saying), then I was able to go online and download Alberta Cross's EP.  The next morning on my way to work that's what I was listening to.

It's not just concerts.  Yesterday I was at one of my favorite coffee shops and Jurassic Five was playing, a band I hadn't thought of in so long, but used to be obsessed with seven years ago.  They didn't play the song "Thin Line" but I kept thinking about how much I loved that song.  I was able while waiting for my coffee to be able to find it on iTunes, download it, and add it to a playlist that I then listened to as I left the coffee shop.  The ability to mobiley download music when I think of it has been an Apple blessing I never thought of.

The last aspect is an application a friend turned me on to called JamBase.  JamBase is a lot like Eventful where it tracks artist and tells you when they are coming to your area so that you can purchase tickets and see your favorite shows.  Like downloading music I feel like I think about looking up when an artist is coming to my area when I'm nowhere near a computer.  JamBase has become the fastest way for me to look into that.  

I'm sure that as I learn about more music themed applications I will fall in love even more, and become even more dependent on my little piece of plastic.