Live, Collective Soul, Blues Traveler

Well the weekend is here and I think it's going to be a nothing weekend, just kind of hangin out doing nothing. Thursday was the concert night at Meadowbrook and it was pretty good. I went with my future sister and brother in-law pictured to the left and my other partner in concerts, my fiance Aija has a migraine so she couldn't go which bummed me out. Earlier in the week I set up a meet and greet with Collective Soul and with Live. I had to work so I couldn't make the meet and greet with Collective Soul(pictured to the right) because it was at 6:15pm. Well it never happened for the people I set it up for as their tour manager never showed up... oh well. We got to the venue and parked and by that time Collective Soul was already on stage as we walked up. Meadowbrook is is like DTE, as it is on a hill and there is a lawn area up above and then the covered seats up to the stage... it's outside. Our seats were pretty good (thanks to the manager of LIVE) in the 8th row on the left side. After Collective soul got done, Blues Traveler (pic to left) took the stage and they were really good. The whole vibe changed in the crowd and it was more of a party. So after that LIVE came out and rocked the place as they did last year. So after the concert we got to meet the band and there were a lot of people for that unlike last year when we went back. We hung around until the band came out and went thru the crowd.

This is a picture of the bass player who likes a good laugh as you can see

This is a picture of me and Ed the lead singer

Me with their drummer

I bet we waited about 45 minutes for everything and then we left. We all decided to head to White Castle after (becoming a ritual after concerts) the concert. My bro and sis in law decided we had to find the one around the concert. Well no one really knew where to go so we drove around for about another half an hour not finding it. Now I told them to just head up the road to the one we knew of but oh no... they were hungry so we had to look. None the less we headed up to Flint on the way home and got our sliders. We ended up getting back around 2am and we were all tired! So that was the concert night which was pretty fun.

This week I did find out that my ankle problem/pain that I've been having is not a fracture but a bone spur in my left ankle. I now have to see a podiatrist and I guess that it's either a cortisone shot or surgery. I've just been asked if I'm writing a novel so I better get going so my other half can get on here and look at knitting stuff for hours and hours on end...hehehehe. She did an amazing job on dying yarn using Kool aid I must say as the pic on the left is something she did last weekend!

Concert Time again

This is going to go down as the summer that I see the most concerts (Moondance Jam doesn't count). This Thursday it's Blues Traveler, Collective Soul, and Live at Meadowbrook. I just secured Meet and Greets for Collective Soul and Live for the show too so that should be cool. I'm hopeful to have pictures of the event to post next weekend.

What's been happening

Ok Ok I'll blog again... gesh, for the people emailing about my blog and nothing being written, get off my back already. So last night I went to the Bon Jovi concert and the Palace. Good show but the tickets where the worst seats I've ever had and I've seen a few concerts in my time (the price was right for these tickets). Nose bleeds were happening all around me! Aija got vertigo up there as it looks like you'll fall straight down to the ants on the floor. I'm so glad that Big Screens are in vogue for concerts because the band was pretty small down there. It was a good concert

Other than that I went back to Minnesota on Tuesday the 24Th of June. I needed to head to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester for my annual Kidney Transplant checkup on that Wednesday. It is now 9 years with a clean bill of health thanks to my sister's kidney inside me. Thursday thru Sunday I headed to the downtown Marriott City Center in Minneapolis for a radio convention called the Upper Midwest Conclave Convention. I'm glad that the Marriott spent 28 million to update the place as it was getting a little 80's casino looking. Now as you can see in the pic, the room's look pretty nice. For the convention, day's started at 8am and went thru 6:30pm and usually a cocktail party for a couple of hours after that. Got to meet Rick Dee's ( radio celebrity,Pic on left) and I know not a big deal but he is a legend... after all he did have a number one song with Disco Duck! I pretty much hung out with my old, and I do mean old placement director for Brown Institute. Now it's Brown College and he is a professor so it's changed a little since I went there 19 years ago. We got to party Friday night in the chambers Hotel in their 5th floor bar http://www.chambersminneapolis.com/. This place is nice if you have never been there in downtown Minneapolis. This is the front lobby when you walk in and from there it was upstairs in the elevator to the patio type bar.

RCA Records was one of the sponsors and my local rep just happened to be there so my drinks were taken care of as was every one which is good when they are about 10 bucks a pop. Below is the patio bar the wraps around the 5th floor, about half of the floor and then inside too.Saturday it was a twins game with a beer, pop and dome dog all for free. Hung out with family on Sunday and then flew back Sunday night. Other than that not a lot new... looking forward to meeting the band Live on the 24Th. Should be a good concert with Live/Collective Soul/Blues traveler all playing on one night at Meadow brook. I got to meet Live last year and they were pretty cool back stage. Other than that I hope to blog about Sake my black cat and have some pics on here soon.