got a bonus at willie nelson/john fogerty concert tonight!

[ellenfl]

i came this close to bowing out of going to the concert tonight with my boyfriend, but waited too long for him to find a replacement. willie nelson and john fogerty played a double bill in the amphitheater in west palm beach. we got there early to beat the traffic and set ourselves up in the little indoor bar on premises.

shortly before the concert started, randy rhodes showed up at the radio station counter inside the bar! she used to be on radio here in west palm before she moved to ny. anyway, while i was speaking to her, she asked me if i had met cindy sheehan, who was standing next to me! i had seen cindy earlier but convinced myself that it was not her. i was shocked . . . and hugged and thanked her for the awesome job she was doing. she and randy were there to introduce willie nelson.

what a night! being surrounded by repugs (randy got boo'd) in the audience couldn't even dampen my spirits after that chance meeting. btw, if you get a chance to see john fogerty, take it . . . expecially if willie is with him. willie played for an hour and john played for almost 2 hours. it was an awesome concert. i didn't remember fogerty being that good on guitar and his backup band was 3 other guitarists and a drummer. they made some really great noise and fogerty sounded just as when he was younger. you should have seen all the old people dancing in the isles!

i wore my 'if you're not outraged, you're not paying attention' t-shirt (for willie) and got a few positive remarks from concert-goers. one guy seated next to us told me he used to be a mcgovern dem, became a reagan dem and is now a bush repug. he said he had been in nam AND was a survivor of 9/11 and is totally behind dubya in fighting the terrorists in iraq. i reminded him that iraq did not attack us and did not have terrorists before the war. he replied with with an assertion that iraq supported terrorists. if fogerty had not been playing at the time, i would have continued the conversation and reminded him that the planes were piloted by mostly saudis and that saddam was too busy reading romance novels (or is that kim jung il?) and outfitting his palaces to support terrorists.

anyway, it's past my bedtime and this will probably have fallen off the page by the time i boot up again tomorrow. just wanted to share.

ellen fl

[Hissyspit]

1. Wow, that's pretty cool. n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Sounds like it was a great concert.

Randi mentioned that she was going to be there to thank her old loyal fans.

Isn't it amazing how ignorant some people can be?
Wonder if that Bushite would have gone to the concert if he knew that Willie was anti-Bush.

[DELUSIONAL]

3. but WHO is Randi's new boyfriend -- was he there??

she said he would be.

Thanks for the most excellent review.

[KyndCulture]

5. I know. I know.

And I ain't tellin'...

suffice it to stay he's on her staff.

:evilgrin:

perks of being a Randi moderator.

[DELUSIONAL]

9. o.k. -- that's a hint -- thanks

[TomInTib]

4. R'd What a great Show!

Sometimes the Music Must Matter

[xxqqqzme]

6. kickin' - in all senses of the word

[Hissyspit]

7. kickin' again n/t

[Hekate]

8. What a fabulous evening for you!

Thanks for sharing. I'm giving you your 5th R.

Hekate

[MazeRat7]

10. I love it when people like one of our locals....

Sometimes I forget, being from Austin, that Willie and friends carry such weight outside Texas. He's a great man, a wonderful ambassador, and always (and I mean always) has great players with him. I can only imagine how awesome a Nelson/Fogerty billing would be.

You are indeed lucky...

MZr7

[tanyev]

11. You were surrounded by repugs?

Shouldn't they be boycotting a Willie Nelson and John Fogerty concert? Did they stick their fingers in their ears and go la-la-la during the songs that criticize our government?

[mucifer]

12. Just goes to show how dumb they are.

[ellenfl]

13. my thoughts exactly. i don't think they knew

that both are anti-war. it was mostly an evening of music, not politics, altho' fogerty did make a couple of comments. i'm tellin' ya, that man has ENERGY. he danced around that stage and sang his heart out for the whole concert. it was amazing . . . and made me feel much less old!

the whole joint was a moving mass of humanity as everyone bobbed and weaved to the music. i felt 20 again.

thanks for the k&r's.

ellen fl