Night Ranger
So on Saturday night, my daughter Emily and I ventured to the cast urban expanse known as Wabash, IN to catch Night Ranger at the Honeywell Center. Anyone who grew up in the 80's knows who Night Ranger is, so I'll avoid going into details on their music.
The night started off again with one of the best cover bands I've heard called Souvenirs. They opened for Cheap Trick as well and once again, did a great job opening for Night Ranger.
Good show by Night Ranger overall. Like any crowd, we had two idiots behind us who were screaming at the top of their lungs during every song. Thankfully they moved up for most of the show so that we could enjoy it in peace. But of course, they had to come back and screw things up. I'll get to them later....
Night Ranger of course played all their big hits and a couple of cover tunes (including Highway to Hell where I was positive the bassist was going to blow his voice out). Throughout the night, Jeff the guitar player was launching picks and two landed right in front of the girl next to me who's husband was a bit faster than me in grabbing them and kept one and gave the other to some schmoe next to him while my daughter looked on. I think he got an earful from his wife later on about not giving one to the little girl standing next to him.
Finally the show ends and Kelly the drummer starts tossing his sticks. One heads out direction and Emily snags it in between two of her fingers but, yet again, the two idiots behind us rip it out of her hand and push both of us forward. At that point I had it and ripped into the asshole about pushing a seventy-two pound twelve year old. Fortunately/unfortunately he was too drunk to notice what an ass he made of himself.
As usual, we made our way around back and Emily got her picks with Jeff, Brad, and Kelly who were kind enough to stick around before they had to drive to Chicago that night to catch an early flight. Of course, who was there pushing people around to get fifity things autographed but the two idiots from the show. My daughter wanted to launch into them, but I told her hold off since #1 they were drunk and #2 they had lots of drunk friends.
Pics will be posted after vacation since I forgot the digital camera and had to use a $4.95 disposable one.