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My wife has a crush on Luke Bryan

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Last night my wife and I went to Tampa Stadium for the 'What Makes You Country 2018 Tour' headlined by Luke Bryan.

Other featured Artists: Morgan Wallen... Up Down Up Down; John Pardi.... Dirt on my Boots; Sam Hunt.... House Party; and, of course, Luke!

I have seen concerts at Tampa Stadium going back to 1972. I attended a riot there Summer 1973 during the Led Zeppelin Concert.

In actuality, the old stadium morphed into a brand new stadium in the late 1990s. We fans and the promoters lucked out last night with good weather. It rains a lot in Tampa this time of year.

My wife (along with 1000s of other female fans in attendance) has a crush on Luke. I can live with that!

Do you have a concert tale to share?

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Well - if Neil Young can write about going from "Hank to Hendrix", I guess you can write about going from Led Zep to Luke Byan!



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The first time I ever got high from weed was at a Parliaments/George Clinton and War concert. I was 16. I didn't smoke a joint; I didn't know what weed was, but I knew what I was smelling wasn't cigarettes, cigars or the pipe tobacco I was used to smelling. There was just that much weed being smoked. Our housekeeper, Miss Greene, took me, my brothers and her kids. We danced a lot and socialized with other folks who were there. Miss Greene wouldn't let us smoke joints, though we had plenty of offers. (Truly, I think the people there were just curious to see what stoned white kids would be like. LOL) After the concert, Miss Greene took us to her house and we spent the night there because she had to wash our clothes to get the smell of pot out of them before we got home.

The first time I did mushrooms was on Grateful Dead concert tour. We skipped class and drove to C-ville, then to the D.C. burbs, the bunch of us crashed at my parents' house and then drove to Manhattan and back to NJ. All I remember from the concert is dancing a whole lot with people who I didn't at all know. I remember staring at a leaf in the backyard and John Whitman coming up to me and saying, "Shrooming, hugh?" We laughed. (Fortunately for me, there was no "drama" with my folks or my friends. Momma and Dad were really quite cool about the fact that I was not at school in the middle of the week.)

I went to a Prince concert and we had such terrible seats we could hardly see Prince. Truly, it could have been anybody on that stage pretending to him and we wouldn't have been able to tell. We decided to "get our freak on" and try to do it without anybody noticing. That was an absolute fail....We got it on; they noticed. After that we all just danced, drank and had our own cocktail party of sorts in the rafters.

I went to hear Carmina Burana. We had front row seats in front of the cellists. One of my friends, "Mike," flirted with one of the cellists throughout the whole first half. At intermission we went outside on the roof to drink three bottles of wine my friend "Mike" had snuck into the concert hall. We didn't finish the wine -- there was about 2/3[SUP]rds[/SUP] of a bottle left -- but "Mike" wasn't willing to just forget about it, so he guzzled it. We got back and found some passes backstage and invitation to a the performers' after-party. Halfway through the second half, "Mike" heaved all that wine he'd guzzled on the floor in front of us. We went to the after-party and the cellist "Mike" had been flirting with wanted nothing to do with him. LOL Other than that, however, we had a great time at the party and "Mike" picked up a ballerina. I have no idea what happened to the cellist; I saw him briefly at the bar and he merely told me that "Mike" was a "jerk." I explained what had happened and apologized on "Mike's" behalf, the guy wasn't moved but wished me well, and that was the last I ever saw of him. This happened in my early thirties.

The thing with me and concerts, ball games, and most other specific entertainment events is that I go to them, but I don't ever remember the actual show. The show is sort of background filler for whatever my friends and I are actually doing. Sort of like when one hosts a party. The band's there (or DJ if that's what one does), but the focus is on what the guests are doing not the band, because nobody's there for the band. When I go to parties, bizarre things don't much happen; things go to plan. But when I go to concerts, it's always some sort of foolishness going on.

I don't know if that's particularly interesting, but it's interesting to me that concerts seem to inspire brazenness, I guess.
 
I'm jealous of that '72 Zep show you got to witness. That's Zep's prime era in my opinion, right around the time of Houses of the Holy.
 
I'm jealous of that '72 Zep show you got to witness. That's Zep's prime era in my opinion, right around the time of Houses of the Holy.

Yep! Summer '73 (August?). It ended really quick due to a riot on the Tampa Stadium field. I saw blood. Cops carried night sticks and guns. I made a quick exit. I think Houses of the Holy came out during Spring '72... my junior year in high school.

About a week after Thanksgiving '73 in the spirit of teenage adventure, I moved from the Tampa area of Florida to San Diego. Life changed Bigly!
 
Last night my wife and I went to Tampa Stadium for the 'What Makes You Country 2018 Tour' headlined by Luke Bryan.

Other featured Artists: Morgan Wallen... Up Down Up Down; John Pardi.... Dirt on my Boots; Sam Hunt.... House Party; and, of course, Luke!

I have seen concerts at Tampa Stadium going back to 1972. I attended a riot there Summer 1973 during the Led Zeppelin Concert.

In actuality, the old stadium morphed into a brand new stadium in the late 1990s. We fans and the promoters lucked out last night with good weather. It rains a lot in Tampa this time of year.

My wife (along with 1000s of other female fans in attendance) has a crush on Luke. I can live with that!

Do you have a concert tale to share?

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My ex brother-in-law works for Luke Bryan. He was probably there, too. :lol:
 
Do you have a concert tale to share?

My husband has always been a huge fan of Stevie Nicks. He never has seen her in concert.

She was at Amalie Arena in Tampa a couple of Novembers ago, and I surprised my husband with pretty good tickets. He had no idea. I waited until the last minute, and told him we were headed to Tampa, but not what for. I already had us a room and everything. He had the time of his life. It was priceless seeing his face when she walked out on stage.
 
My husband has always been a huge fan of Stevie Nicks. He never has seen her in concert.

She was at Amalie Arena in Tampa a couple of Novembers ago, and I surprised my husband with pretty good tickets. He had no idea. I waited until the last minute, and told him we were headed to Tampa, but not what for. I already had us a room and everything. He had the time of his life. It was priceless seeing his face when she walked out on stage.

I saw Kenny Loggins, Fleetwood Mac (featuring a young and beautiful Stevie Nicks) and the Eagles a few feet from the stage at Tampa Stadium July 1976.

I sold a car and motorcycle later that summer to fund 10 weeks of vagabonding that fall in Western Europe. All good memories today!
 
I saw Kenny Loggins, Fleetwood Mac (featuring a young and beautiful Stevie Nicks) and the Eagles a few feet from the stage at Tampa Stadium July 1976.

I sold a car and motorcycle later that summer to fund 10 weeks of vagabonding that fall in Western Europe. All good memories today!

That's what I am telling my daughter. She's 18, and in college, and has a little bit of money. She and her friends are going to at least 10 concerts this year alone, and possibly more. They are going to like 3 or 4 in August alone. I told her to enjoy herself now, while she is young and has a little money. Once she gets older and has responsibilities, she won't be able to travel like this.

Granted, her concerts wouldn't be as cool as Kenny Loggins, Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles (before the bastards sold out and turned into greedy assholes). /rant off
 
That's what I am telling my daughter. She's 18, and in college, and has a little bit of money. She and her friends are going to at least 10 concerts this year alone, and possibly more. They are going to like 3 or 4 in August alone. I told her to enjoy herself now, while she is young and has a little money. Once she gets older and has responsibilities, she won't be able to travel like this.

Granted, her concerts wouldn't be as cool as Kenny Loggins, Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles (before the bastards sold out and turned into greedy assholes). /rant off

I constantly say to one of my best friends of more than 40 years that No One Has More Fun Than Him! He sets up Special Events worldwide for IBM. I hope your daughter's Best Times Lie Ahead (maybe in the way you pursued Higher Ed)!

Many Grins!
 
I constantly say to one of my best friends of more than 40 years that No One Has More Fun Than Him! He sets up Special Events worldwide for IBM. I hope your daughter's Best Times Lie Ahead (maybe in the way you pursued Higher Ed)!

Many Grins!

I certainly hope so. I wasn't encouraged to do things like this by my parents. They were different. They wanted me to just get married to half an asshole and have a boatload of kids and die at 70. The end. :lol: I want more than that for my kids. She is considering Europe next summer with her friends. I am encouraging it.
 
We had grown close to Leon Russell and his beautiful family over the years and when the "A Poem Is A Naked Person" documentary premiered in Los Angeles we were given All Access passes to the premiere and we joined Leon and his family at the after-party on the penthouse floor garden spot.

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Both Leon and his wife Jan were so sweet to us that night. Of course he always has been. We miss him terribly.
 
Yep! Summer '73 (August?). It ended really quick due to a riot on the Tampa Stadium field. I saw blood. Cops carried night sticks and guns. I made a quick exit. I think Houses of the Holy came out during Spring '72... my junior year in high school.

About a week after Thanksgiving '73 in the spirit of teenage adventure, I moved from the Tampa area of Florida to San Diego. Life changed Bigly!

Sounds like a hell of an experience.
 
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