Sunday night we went to a concert [View all]
We saw Toto and Journey. Yep, live and with all the lights and everything. It was pretty cool, and one of the interesting aspects was that there were fans of all ages, from us old geezers to tweens and young teens with their parents. As we were driving home (the concert was at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville), spousal unit said, "I think this might be the first concert I was ever at where the opening act was better than the main act." (referring to Toto) After we discussed that for a bit, agreeing that Toto was musically tighter and comparing the individual musicians to one another, he commented that Journey's Neal Schon is one of the finest guitarists there is, but he is prone to wretched excess because he just cannot help himself. I had to agree, because I had found myself thinking, during one of his solos, of something my little brother (doctor and musician) sometimes said--"Just because you can does not mean you should."
I leave you with this, one of my all time favorites, which had the crowd alight:
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