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Ringo in the rain...
Jul. 9th, 2006 07:41 amMet my friends at around 5:30 for dinner at Ruby Tuesday. As we sat by the window, I noticed it getting really, and I mean REALLY dark. Crap. Crapcrapcrap!! Looking like rain. LOTS of rain. But as dinner wore on, it lightened up a bit and I thought well maybe we'd squeak by without much of anything. Boy was I wrong. Keep reading.
Got into the venue and checked out the merchandise, where I bought the tour teeshirt and program book. The book is luffly, lots of gorgeous piccies.
OMG. Well the show started out wonderfully. Halfway through the show... *splat* a big fat raindrop landed on my head. NOOOOOOOOO!!!! I grabbed the guy walking by with panchos. As I finished putting it on, the heavens opened and down came the rain. THE. RAIN. Steady, on the verge of being heavy, still not quite, but enough to soak everyone and make for a very WET concert experience.
Don't think that didn't stop us all from having fun though. People dragged out or purchased their rain panchos and rocked on despite the raindrops. By the way, you should experience Edgar Winter doing "Frankenstein" with real rain and lightening!! Dayum!!! Oh yes.
Anyway, Ringo was as cute and warm as ever. Luff him dear. He sang It Don't Come Easy, What Goes On, Boys, Never Without You (*sniff, sniff*), Yellow Submarine (in the pouring rain, funnnnn), Act Naturally, totally skipped Memphis In Your Mind and went straight to With A Little Help From My Friends.
Sheila E. was back, and did her prerequisite Love Bizarre and Glamorous Life complete with kick ass drum solo. The woman rocks hardcore. Seriously. I love watching her play.
Hamish Stuart was there, on bass. You may remember him from The Average White Band, and from touring and working with Paul McCartney. He's awesome. Hamish was a late addition, taking the place of Mark Hudson. He stuck to that bass and backing vocals here.
Edgar Winter, who doesn't look any different than he did in 1972. It's amazing. He was awesome on Free Ride and Frankenstein. Completely rocked the place. It was around the time he did Frankenstein that the rain decided to put an appearance in. And the lightning. No thunder, just flashes periodically.
Might I add the band (particularly dear Ringo) had to get a couple of rain jokes in there including serenading us with "Singin' In The Rain". Easy enough for THEM to do, dry as a bone under cover of the stage. :p Ringo said "I have towels..." We're all like yeah, well hand some out here! LOL!!!! Oh man. Anyhow...
Rod Argent trotted out Zombies favorites "She's Not There" and "Time Of The Season", later rocking the place with "Hold Your Head Up". He struggled a bit with the notes during the Zombies stuff but it was still awesome to hear them and see him.
Richard Marx still has those incredibly boyish good looks. A sweetheart, and the ladies loved him. :) He's the baby of Ringo's All Starrs at 42, only a year older than I am. He did "Don't Mean Nothing" and "Should Have Known Better" and "Satisfied". I was hoping for "Right Here Waiting", but I think the rain got us cut a couple of songs though I can't be sure, looking at a couple other set lists, I don't see it listed there either. Anyway he totally rocked, and sounded great.
In fact, I'm pretty darn sure songs got cut, because come to think of it we should have gotten "Fly Away" from Edgar Winter and didn't. Damn rain. But as I told my friend, hey we're already soaked, if we haven't left already we're not going anywhere, just give us the whole show. LOL!! But oh well. *sigh* Back to the show:
Billy Squier was good. I'm not really all too familiar with him outside his hit "The Stroke" ... which we didn't get by the way. He instead did "Everybody Wants You" and "Rock Me Tonight". Another cut though... was supposed to do something with Edgar... "Rambling On My Mind". But he rocked the place anyway, the crowd really responded to him.
So despite the weather, we had a great time. Hey, Ringo? Try playing at the Hard Rock next time, that would be an absolute BLAST of a venue, still close by, and we wouldn't get WET if the weather didn't cooperate! LOL!!! Well that's the hazard of an outdoor venue in the summer in South Florida. Gotta roll with the punches.
Peace. And. Luv.
Got into the venue and checked out the merchandise, where I bought the tour teeshirt and program book. The book is luffly, lots of gorgeous piccies.
OMG. Well the show started out wonderfully. Halfway through the show... *splat* a big fat raindrop landed on my head. NOOOOOOOOO!!!! I grabbed the guy walking by with panchos. As I finished putting it on, the heavens opened and down came the rain. THE. RAIN. Steady, on the verge of being heavy, still not quite, but enough to soak everyone and make for a very WET concert experience.
Don't think that didn't stop us all from having fun though. People dragged out or purchased their rain panchos and rocked on despite the raindrops. By the way, you should experience Edgar Winter doing "Frankenstein" with real rain and lightening!! Dayum!!! Oh yes.
Anyway, Ringo was as cute and warm as ever. Luff him dear. He sang It Don't Come Easy, What Goes On, Boys, Never Without You (*sniff, sniff*), Yellow Submarine (in the pouring rain, funnnnn), Act Naturally, totally skipped Memphis In Your Mind and went straight to With A Little Help From My Friends.
Sheila E. was back, and did her prerequisite Love Bizarre and Glamorous Life complete with kick ass drum solo. The woman rocks hardcore. Seriously. I love watching her play.
Hamish Stuart was there, on bass. You may remember him from The Average White Band, and from touring and working with Paul McCartney. He's awesome. Hamish was a late addition, taking the place of Mark Hudson. He stuck to that bass and backing vocals here.
Edgar Winter, who doesn't look any different than he did in 1972. It's amazing. He was awesome on Free Ride and Frankenstein. Completely rocked the place. It was around the time he did Frankenstein that the rain decided to put an appearance in. And the lightning. No thunder, just flashes periodically.
Might I add the band (particularly dear Ringo) had to get a couple of rain jokes in there including serenading us with "Singin' In The Rain". Easy enough for THEM to do, dry as a bone under cover of the stage. :p Ringo said "I have towels..." We're all like yeah, well hand some out here! LOL!!!! Oh man. Anyhow...
Rod Argent trotted out Zombies favorites "She's Not There" and "Time Of The Season", later rocking the place with "Hold Your Head Up". He struggled a bit with the notes during the Zombies stuff but it was still awesome to hear them and see him.
Richard Marx still has those incredibly boyish good looks. A sweetheart, and the ladies loved him. :) He's the baby of Ringo's All Starrs at 42, only a year older than I am. He did "Don't Mean Nothing" and "Should Have Known Better" and "Satisfied". I was hoping for "Right Here Waiting", but I think the rain got us cut a couple of songs though I can't be sure, looking at a couple other set lists, I don't see it listed there either. Anyway he totally rocked, and sounded great.
In fact, I'm pretty darn sure songs got cut, because come to think of it we should have gotten "Fly Away" from Edgar Winter and didn't. Damn rain. But as I told my friend, hey we're already soaked, if we haven't left already we're not going anywhere, just give us the whole show. LOL!! But oh well. *sigh* Back to the show:
Billy Squier was good. I'm not really all too familiar with him outside his hit "The Stroke" ... which we didn't get by the way. He instead did "Everybody Wants You" and "Rock Me Tonight". Another cut though... was supposed to do something with Edgar... "Rambling On My Mind". But he rocked the place anyway, the crowd really responded to him.
So despite the weather, we had a great time. Hey, Ringo? Try playing at the Hard Rock next time, that would be an absolute BLAST of a venue, still close by, and we wouldn't get WET if the weather didn't cooperate! LOL!!! Well that's the hazard of an outdoor venue in the summer in South Florida. Gotta roll with the punches.
Peace. And. Luv.
