Tonight's Gordon Lightfoot

Well at long last, the Gordon Lightfoot concert is tonight. I'm very excited. I love this man's music. He's probably one of the few artists I've discovered by accident that I've kept loving even though he doesn't do much besides touring these days.

I'm hoping tonight he does Race Among The Ruins as he didn't do that one @ The Mountaineer when I saw him a few years back.

My seats are totally wonderful, so I hope I can get some good pictures of Gord. If I do they'll get posted over the weekend, as the next few days will likely be crazy busy for me.

Boo hiss!

So let's get a woo hoo for getting seats in the first 5 rows of a concert for once!

Oh and everyone sing a chorus of Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald.

Decisions Decisions

Suddenly there is a wealth of concerts coming through the area. Gordon Lightfoot in June and now Weird Al in July.

I'm trying to decide if I want to catch the Weird One. His shows are supposedly really good, and I've always been amused by the parodies he's done.

Plus if I bought cheap seats it would only be about $35.

Not bad for a concert.

I have until tomorrow morning to decide.

ARGH!

Also, its not as if The Moody Blues or Elvis Costello were playing shows nearby, so I should enjoy the shows that I can catch.

Speaking of which, less then 2 weeks until Craig Ferguson!!

The Concert Bit My Butt

I am so tired today, I don't know how I'm going to keep my eyes open until 4 o'clock. I actually yawned my way through the first part of the show last night, which was terribly embarrassing.

I'm so glad I went to the concert though, it was great fun and Rockapella really can sing. I highly recommend them to anyone that has the chance to see them. Pick up a CD too. You won't be sorry. I've only a few of their 11 discs, because most are Japanese imports that are way to pricey to buy (Hints for anyone wanting to buy me a Christmas present) for myself.

Most of the discs you'll buy won't have the current lineup, but that's not to be worried about, the previous members are just as good as the 4 guys singing now, though I can't help but wish a new album would be forthcoming.

What I don't recommend anymore are concerts one work nights when the following day can't be taken off. I'm really going to fall asleep on my desk today and that's not a good thing at all.

Rockapella!

OMG Awesome is about all I can say. This was a quality show for $30. And we were about 5 rows back from the stage. (Actual 3rd row of seats in the theater though)

No Flash photography was allowed but, let me tell you, my camera did well without the flash, since we were that close.

Most of my photos can be found here.

A full review of the show will be posted on my music community on LJ in the coming days. I promise to post a link when its ready. Right now I'm just too darn tired to do much of anything, besides share my pictures.

This was the first show in a long time where my brain said, you love the guys, but you can't stay for a signing. I feel bad about that, but I know that my body would hate me this morning, if I had. It already does.

Enjoy the pictures, and if you ever want to hear a great acapella singing group, see Rockapella if they come to your town. You won't regret it.

Peter Noone - Wheeling Island

Oh what a fun show! Peter was in great form. He can still sing and bounce with the best of them and he looks adorable.

He's a very nice guy too.

Check out pictures (that aren't edited yet, so please forgive any and all red-eye) here

And as proof that the pictures are good, here's a shot from the signing after the show.



Off to Akron now to see him again and to see The Vogues tomorrow at the Stark County Fair in Canton. I'll be around, so you may see a picture or two before Monday night!

I Hate Waiting

Rockapella are coming to Greensburg in November. Who are they, you ask? As I'm sure most of you haven't heard of them. Rockapella is a acapella (no brainer there right) singing group that had their start doing the theme song for the kid's geography game show, Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiago.

The lineup of the band has changed since those days when I used to watch the show on PBS, but my favorite member of the band, Scott Leonard is still there. I've crushed on that cute blonde guy for ages.

The tickets are fairly reasonable too, cheap seats at $15 up to $55. Not bad at all, and Greensburg is easier to deal with than Pittsburgh and its actually a little bit easier to drive too as well. Assuming gas doesn't cost $7.00 a gallon then. If it does, then we're all screwed. When gas gets to be that close to the minimum wage, well then there's nothing good to be said for the world, especially in a country where Public Transportation takes a back burner to everything.

But that's really neither here nor there, what I want to know is when the tickets go on sale! Heck the concert's in November half the time, those kind of shows go on sale 6 months beforehand!

GAH!

Squee!

Four words:

I met Gordon Lightfoot!!!!!


THUD!



And here's a photo from the end of the show, I've only got 20 pictures out of my 100 + on flickr right now because there's been no time to post them. The ones I have there still need tweaking but I can fix them on the site.



Go here to see them. I'll review the concert later, when I'm more awake. We didn't get back from the show until about 1 a.m.

Yikes!

So I'm a sleepy girl this morning, albeit a very happy girl.

Thank God For Fishy

I can't believe I'm actually thankful for that dork, but if it weren't for him I'd not be seeing Gordon Lightfoot in 2 weeks. For some reason, even though I have the tickets already and the date is printed on them, I've been saying the day of the concert is a week later than it actually is.

The concert is on June 11th not June 18th.

Both dates are Wednesdays, but I have no idea why my mind wrapped around the 18th as the date of the concert. If it weren't for the fact that The Pickle is giving away tickets next week and they had to do a really bad commercial to tell us about it (sorry Fishy, the commercial sucks) I wouldn't have been in Chester, WV on the right day.

Now all I have to do is get my boss to let me have that Wednesday off. I'm not concerned about getting no sleep the night after the concert. I'm more concerned with getting there, as the Mountaineer is about an hour and a half away from my house, and the show is at 7:30 and well I get off work at 4. So you can see that there would be little time to get there and get lost, as I'm apt to do when hunting down places I haven't been that often.

Fingers crossed for me that I can get that day.

I can't wait to see Gordon!

The Concert Gods

They've been smiling on me suddenly in a strange fashion for artists that I wouldn't expect to see. I've got decent seats for Gordon Lightfoot's show in June, Nick Lowe's show in a little over a week and it's possible I may see Peter Noone twice and even The Buckinghams again.

Wow!

I don't think I've had that kind of concert going year in quite awhile. And there's still a chance I might see Over The Rhine. Their show at Diesel in Pittsburgh was rescheduled and I think there are still tickets available. It's $20! I might be able to wing that without a problem! I'm playing it by ear for that one, since it's only about a week and a half before the Lightfoot show.

What might surprise or shock or amuse most people is that I don't really enjoy concerts. I hate all the bullshit that goes along with them. The pat downs before entering a venue, the wanker fans that are almost always drunk or are just wankers, the astronomical cost of anything at the venue from parking to a glass of diet soda.

I've had so many miserable experiences at shows that the great ones are often eclipsed. That's mainly because Pittsburgh has the 7 Layers Of Concert Hell for venues and security at all of them are wankers to the highest degree. It's no wonder most of my good experiences occurred in other states.

~sigh~

But at least the concert gods are being kind and smiling on me this year. Kinda!

Gordon Lightfoot Tickets = Squee

SQUEE!

I've got tickets about a little more than 10 rows back dead center on the aisle for Gordon Lightfoot's show at The Harv @ The Mountaineer Gaming Resort in WV in June!!

I'm going to see Gord!!!!

I'm going to see Gord!!!

Can you tell I'm thrilled?

Do you know how much I've come to love Gord over the last two years? A lot and it's actually thanks to 99.3 The Pickle, but don't tell them that, they don't need to know.

I'm over the moon.

I've got good seats, as far as casino shows go. And I'm going to see Gord!

SQUEE!!!!!

Gordon Lightfoot!

Yesterday I got an email from Cincinnati Arts that Gordon Lightfoot was going to be playing there in April. I cussed up a storm because it was the first Friday in April and I had no desire to take any time off that early in the year. However after going to Pollstar, I found that he has a date much closer and in June!

Woo hoo!

I'm kind of unamused that I have to buy those tickets in 3 weeks and that its highly possible that it will be a Pickle sponsored show, but I'm going, even if I have to growl at Fishy for a certain amount of time. The thought of him being able to chat with Gord fills me with more jealousy than I can express. I know its a bad thing to feel that way, but I suffer job envy. I wonder if he'd swap me jobs for a few weeks, but only if he's working that show. I won't know until Monday if Pickle is sponsoring it, because I didn't find out about the WV show until after 12 noon yesterday.

Damn me, for not looking into Gord's concerts sooner.

I hope the venue is camera friendly. I love Gord! He's such a sweet geezer. I'm so excited! I want pictures of Gord!

This Just Doesn't Seem To Be My Day

Remember that Monkees song? I think it was from either the first or second album. I can't recall which right now, or maybe it wasn't either, who knows but it was a Monkees song.

I guess I should have stayed in bed the pillow wrapped around my head....

Yup, that sums up today.

In less than 2 inches of snow, I nearly wrecked my car not once...not twice...but three times...in the space of 4 blocks...going less than 10 mph.

Way to clean the streets! The roads were all slippery and slushy. Once I slid into the sidewalk wall. How Bernie the Beretta came out of that unscathed, I do not know. Twice I did fishtail turns to end up in the other lane, before I gave up and turned around and came home.

I think I shook for about an hour after that ordeal. And have I mentioned it was less than 2 inches of snow?

I think if the boss would have said, come in around 11...all would have been well with the world. But nope...try to come in at 9, when Charleroi had barely started to salt the streets, even though this storm was expected. They knew it was coming. It was no big secret!

Moving right along...I'm feeling particularly crappy with life right now. The amount of togetherness I'm dealing with is getting to me. I'm not a shiny happy girl right now. I need to get away from everyone, because my fuse is getting shorter and shorter. This isn't good. Because I'm snapping at people that don't deserve to be snapped at. And I'm finding myself latching on to people that probably would rather not have to deal with me, the human steamroller.

~sigh~

I think the only bright part of my day was getting my Grass Roots concert tickets. 3rd row dead center almost on the aisle. I'll be able to make goo goo eyes at PH, that's how close I'll be. Poor PH...he probably should be canonized for putting up with me. He's a good egg, he is.

I Got My Tickets!

Well, I spent 20 minutes trying to get through to the State Theater in Uniontown, but I got through and I have 2 tickets to see The Grass Roots (Mmmm Rob Grill) and a host of other bands that I don't care about on Oct 6. Making a small assumption...I'll probably see PH too, which won't hurt my eyes one bit. In fact, they'll probably have a little bit of sparkle in them.

This is probably the first time I've bought tickets and had no clue as to where my seats are. I'm safe to assume the front row is owned by the station. (Grrrr) Here's hoping I'm somewhere in the first 10 rows. (That's always good for picture taking) Maybe if I'm lucky I'll get a better shot of PH too. Tee Hee.

I'm such a goober.

Now I need to calm myself down from the stress of trying to get tickets and again ponder why tickets for a show in Oct have to go on sale in March!

Damn that's just flipping ridiculous. But since it's over and I know I likely have damn good seats...and I'll get to see a good band...and PH...Squee!

Thunder Only Happens When Its Raining

Last night was the Stevie Nicks concert. It proved to me a few things.

1. Pittsburgh is the crappiest city in the world to see a concert.
2. I will always have either a drunk or a whiner sitting in my near vacinity. Last night was the whiner. I think I'd have preferred the drunk.

As for the concert, Stevie Nicks was incredible and so was Don Henley. That's saying a lot for me, because I'm not a huge fan of either, but I like them well enough that I'm not going to complain about seeing a show.

Both did staples from their solo careers and from their respective bands. So yeah, I heard Desperado, Hotel California, Rhiannon and Dreams last night as well as The Boys Of Summer, Dirty Laundry, Stand Back and Edge Of Seventeen.

Don Henley opened the show and Stevie came out and did a few songs with him. They shared vocals on several songs in both his set and hers later.

Stevie Nicks is up there with Cher for wardrobe changes. Though her wardrobe changes weren't on the same caliber as Cher's she was running off stage to change clothes at least 6 times during the show. As always, her wardrobe made her look like a gypsy, but that suits her so well.

The best wardrobe change was for the song Beauty and The Beast, easily the best song of the evening. She wore a Victorian-esque gown. Black, of course. It was stunning, simply stunning.

Leather and Lace was part of the encore and another one of the highlights of the evening. Stevie and Don work so well together.

Oh and I have to comment on one more song, Stevie and Don did a Bonnie Raitt song called The Circle Dance. It was just beautiful. I hope it appears on an album sometime soon, because it should. They ended the song slow dancing together.

Taken from Stevie's website, here's the setlist

Don Henley
The Genie
Witchy Woman
I Put a Spell on You
Hotel California (with Stevie)
New York Minute (with Stevie)
The Last Worthless Evening (with Stevie)
Boys of Summer
Heart of the Matter
Dirty Laundry
Life in the Fast Lane
All She Wants to Do is Dance
encore
End of the Innocence
Desperado

Stevie Nicks
Outside The Rain
Dreams
Rhiannon
Enchanted
Gold Dust Woman (with Don Henley)
Circle Dance (Bonnie Raitt cover)
Band Introduction
Stand Back
Beauty and the Beast
Edge of Seventeen
encore
Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (with Don Henley)
Leather and Lace (with Don Henley)
So You Wanna Be A Rock and Roll Star (with Don Henley)

That's from the tour opener and I think it was pretty much the same in Pittsburgh. If you want to hear any of the songs performed on this tour, click here. It's the show in Holmdel, New Jersey. The quality isn't the greatest, but it's worth downloading just to hear, plus there are some other goodies there too.

Stevie is so incredibly beautiful up close and a wonderful performer, as is Don Henley. It was a great show and I'm glad I was there to see them!

SQUEE!!!

10th Row!

John's Side

The Happy Dance of Joy will now begin!