Thursday, I go to see Guns N Roses/Alice in Chains at Ford Field in Detroit. The opening night of the Guns reunion tour! While waiting at Hockeytown Cafe for a table before the show, we notice someone coming in who looked oddly familiar. My friend said "Hey thats a pretty good Ringo Starr lookalike." I look again.
"No, THAT is Ringo Starr!" Ringo was playing a show that night at the nearby Fox Theater and decided to go to Hockeytown Cafe for some pre-show eats. Amazingly, no one was bothering him and he only came in with one person. All them young folks probably didn't recognize him. He was literally 2 feet away from me at one point! My friend followed him and stealthfully snapped a pic:
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| "I'm very happy to be here!" Yes, I have now seen both surviving Beatles in the flesh!!! |
Then on to Ford Field. Alice in Chains took the stage at 8:30 sharp and man did they sound great! Duvaul sang Layne's parts extremely well. They played all the hits too. Sean Kinney had a drum cam which they showed often which was great. I'm a big fan of his drumming. They played old stuff, new stuff... all of it well worth the price of admission.
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| Jerry Cantrell had the vintage "Honeycomb" guitar he used to record all those old 90s albums! |
Finally Alice in Chains left the stage and GUNS N ROSES came on literally 25 minutes later. Like, ON TIME! WOW! and Man, they were fucking killer. 25 songs. Deep cuts and covers like COMA, THE SEEKER, WISH YOU WERE HERE jam and so much more. Awesome, awesome show.
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| Reports of Axel Rose signing badly are greatly exaggerated. He sounded awesome! |
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| Everyone needs some DUFF in their lives. |
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| Grand finale pyro. |
I'd highly recommend anyone check out the Guns N Roses reunion tour. I got some audio from the show that I will play on my podcast in the future, so look for that. But yeah man. They put on a great show for us. Amazing!
Friday, I get up early and head to Port Huron to get my son Cody. The day before I got an oil change and they said I had a major oil leak and the whole bottom of my Bat Blazer was wet. I'd need an overall tuneup to the amount of like $600-800! UGH. But they said if I put oil in the car every stop or so, I'd make it to Illinois for my trip I planned. So once returning with Cody after a 4 hour drive, we drove the 7 hours south to Carmi, Illinois to see my dad. He was in good spirits and happy to see us.
Saturday we spend all day looking at the car. Surprise: NO OIL LEAK AT ALL. I have no idea what that guy was telling me at all. But I did massively overfill the oil on the trip down so that had to be drained and we put new oil in. I also desperately needed new tires so we drove to Evansville and had those replaced. Car is good to go for another long while hopefully. It was good to see lots of my family on so short a visit. And much thanks to Steve at S&E Auto in Carmi for dealing with my car woes.
I was juggling a lot on Saturday. Emotionally, with being down there and seeing mom's grave and all those things to some drama up north at home. It wasn't a good day and I was even more stressed than possible. But I just chugged water and tried to stay calm and enjoy myself. I spent time with dad and we had a good talk. Finally late Saturday we headed back home. Cody and took the long drive all night and finally arrived home at 4:30am. I was simply mentally and physically exhausted. But now I'm home and taking care of business. I'm working on getting the Starslam books sketched and other things taken care of. Lots to juggle. But I'll make it happen. It's what I do.
Anyway, back to the grind. At least I got my son here this week to keep me company!
Cheers, T
4 comments:
I hate to burst your bubble, but you saw the Ringo look-a-like. My wife passed that same guy at the Fox Theater, and he was there with a radio station and taking pictures with fans. The red coat is the give away with me, as the look-a-like was in the red coat (I did eventually see him at the theater). My wife would agree that he looked good, but was slightly taller and looked a bit younger. So, sorry dude, but you saw the look-a-like.
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Are you kidding?!? He looked like the real deal to me. He must have been wearing Ringo's skin or something! He even did the peace sign to a gal in a chair and i got a good look at his face. It HAD to be him! Bahhh!!!! Im floored!
My wife was really impressed with how the guy looked, but we also did see the impersonator in the audience (still wearing the red jacket) when the REAL Ringo was on stage. Lots of people were getting photos with the impersonator.
By the way, I heard GnR started 3 minutes early!! It appears maybe Axl has grown up a bit recently. Nothing but good reviews of these shows.
Take care.
I wish i knew you guys were down there too i woulda met up and said hi!
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