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When I was in college, we learned quickly that we could go to a concert, stand outside, and very soon after the band started, a couple would walk out and we would ask for their tickets. They said sure. So we saw Journey that way. There were others we saw that I don’t remember right now. I saw a number of concerts at college, Elton John…[Read more]

Nah, just got lucky. A friend had planned to go but had to sell is tix. Saturday night on campus with nowhere else to go. I thought we were going to watch as piano player / lounge act for the rest of the night when they first rolled the piano on stage. I’ll bet 3/4’s of the kids there never heard of him. The place wasn’t even sold out, maybe…[Read more]

That is a great story. You witnessed history in the making word.

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We saw Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden last year. He’s been playing there once a month, and selling out, for about 5 years now. We first saw him back in 1974. He wasn’t even the headliner, opening for Roger McGuinn. McQuinn was the lead for the Byrds before going solo. Anyway, Joel’s band was late arriving due to traffic on the PA Turnpike,…[Read more]

Gibbon’s voice was not on for sure, but he was playing guitar pretty goodly. They were fun. My wife even noticed the 15 string bass the new guy plays for a joke. I’ve seen pics and read about it. They did it for a joke. First song was played on that and we never saw it again after that. But it is pretty funny looking.

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Retro concerns are always iffy on the vocals

The ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd was a great concert and the weather held, so it was really nice. I liked ZZ Top, but Billy Gibbon’s voice is really rough now, could barely hear him. I thought Lynyrd Skynyrd just tried too hard, but they played well too. However the guy that took Gary Rossington’s place had his guitar turned down to much. I’m…[Read more]

Summer has been blown away with the wind from the north.

I hope the weather was better than predicted. It’s been beautiful here, just no rain and the grass flowers and shrubs are toasted.

Gymnastics meet, baseball and football games today, Baseball tomorrow.

Yes, the recitals are excruciating!! My wife and I are going to go see ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd on Saturday. It was supposed to rain and be cold. Now it is not supposed to rain and be semi warm. So hopefully Saturday will be pretty good word.

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Has she danced the recitals? Up on stage for maybe 3 minutes, but you have to watch 12 other groups of kids you don’t know until it’s her turn.

All of the hubbub about a tropical rain deluge and nary a drop fell. Western wind blew it out over the Atlantic. I spent the morning culling dead grass and overseeding for the intended rain, now I have…[Read more]

That sounds like fun. We have one granddaughter that has played volleyball but seems to not to want to pursue that in HS. We have younger grand kids that are not ready for sports much. The 4 year old does dance. Quite the deal when they can hardly balance word!!

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Supposed to see the remnants of the Texas storm later this PM, but when you look at the radar, it seems the storm is splitting just south of us and heading NE and NW just enough to miss us. We may see 0″ or it could be 3″.

Oldest grandson is playing Pop Warner football, cornerback and tight end. QB rolled out toward him and he had to decide to…[Read more]

Yep, family matters for sure. That’s why we are staying put word. Rain on Sat, cooling temps.

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too cool for my liking. I prefer hot. I’ve trying to get wifey to consider somewhere down south, but she hates humidity. Arizona and New Mexico are too far from the kiddos.

Move here and you will get rain. All fall, winter, and spring long. Summers are drier word.

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There you go, a way to keep him a part of the band.

The weather has been perfect, blue skies and mid 70’s, but we could really use some rain.

I think in the past when they do Tush, they pipe in Dusty’s vocals cause Billy surely can’t do that word.

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It’ll be interesting without Dusty Hill on bass. Beard or no beard ? I wonder if they’ll do a missing man tribute at some point. ZZ has its own sound and appearance; I can’t imagine them letting that change in any way.