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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.
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.
Yep, family matters for sure. That’s why we are staying put word. Rain on Sat, cooling temps.
mspart
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 stay with the receiver or charge the QB. Got right (or maybe lucky) and got his first sack. So now we have 6 playing fall ball, some in multiple sports, 1 tackle football, 2 flag football, 3 in baseball, 1 in soccer, a gymnast and 2 cheerleaders. We’ve spent the last 2 weekends roving field to field.
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!!
mspart
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 to go water it all down since there is no rain in the forecast.
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.
mspart
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.
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 guessing that was the main sound board’s fault. I fought that a little problematic because his parts are integral to the sound.
The Outlaws opened the show, but we were too late for that because they said it starts at 7:00. They started earlier. They were good from what I saw. But we finally sat down and they were already more than halfway through Green Grass and High Tides, one of my favorite songs of all time. It was pretty good, we had a good time.
mspart
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.
I have to say, I like these two bands better than Billy Joel that we saw a few months ago. But the band Billy Joel assembled was incredible. He had 2 guitars, a bass, Drummer, various percussionists and another keyboard player. At least. And they were incredibly tight. Not that ZZ Top and LS were not tight, they were, but there was an audible difference. Every instrument was crisp and clear, every lead break you could hear. Like I said, that might be due to the sound board operators, or the musicians, but the Band for Billy Joel was incredible.
That said, I liked the music the other night better. I just wish the sound was better word.
mspart
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, so McQuinn went on first. Joel’s band had just arrived when McQuinn finished so they rolled out the piano and Joel starts playing solo, opening with Piano Man…. with a half a fifth of Jack D on top of it. He played 3 songs then asked for an intermission while his band set up. He went on to play for 3 hours. It was at a time just as his Piano Man album had just been released. His first album Cold Spring Harbor didn’t get much radio time so he was fairly unknown. Soon after the Piano Man album, he hit the big time. We saw him for $5 a ticket in a college auditorium. During those 3 hours he played many of the songs that appeared on his third album Street Life Seranade, and Turnstiles, his fourth. By the end, some 5 hours later, he had almost finished the 5th of Jack D and we turned sober.
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