Monday, December 9, 2024

See Ya Later

 Tim plans to get up and go hunting tomorrow, looking for his buck. He doesn't really seem to care whether or not he gets it. We've been very fortunate this season. 

We made the last doe a 'hamburger doe'. We mixed it with pork and then bagged it up. We just cut the tenderloins into small chops and we have a neck roast. 

It got quite warm today. I didn't pay attention to how warm it got, but all that snow is melting off at an amazing rate. 

My daughter had gotten us tickets to see Lou Gramm Thursday for our Christmas gift. He was the lead voice for Foreigner for many years. 



In 2003, after a falling out with Mick Jones, he walked away from the band. Kelly Hansen replaced took over as lead singer in 2005. 


It gets kind of hard to distinguish between the two leads, because Foreigner rereleased a lot of old Foreigner using the new lead singer, and to be fair, Kelly Hansen filled Gramm's shoes admirably, but because Tim and I grew up with the 'old' Foreigner, Lou Gramm is the voice that we identify with. 

Foreigner continued to tour, using all the old songs, and the question came up about Lou Gramm joining up for old times' sake, but the current lead singer did not want to tour with the Gramm. 

So, Gramm is touring on his own, and he is doing the old Foreigner stuff too. His back up band is Asia, believe it or not. Asia has gone through a lot of metamorphoses of its own, with Steve Howe from Yes, in my opinion the greatest guitarist ever to play. Greg Lake (Emerson, Lake, and Palmer) and John Wetton (King Crimson). 



It was a concert that we both wanted to see pretty badly, but in the end, decided not to spend the money, since the cheap seats would have been $94, plus those 'convenience fees' they tack on. But my daughter worked a surprise. I knew about it, but left her to be the one to tell Tim. He was very quiet when she told hm. Later, he said, "I never expected her to do something like that." 

Tonight I went to print the tickets off, and much to my surprise saw that the date had changed from December 12th, to April 4th, 2025. We'd received no notice that it had been postponed. Now, to be honest, I'm not really sorry about that, because they have another winter storm warning for our neck of the woods starting Wednesday and running through Friday. 

I called the Erie Arena just to be absolutely certain, and they confirmed that the show was postponed. I keep thinking, though, what about those poor schmucks that printed their tickets off when they bought them? Unless they receive some e-mail notification, they will have no idea. I would have found that irksome.




32 comments:

  1. Gosh, I can't believe they didn't notify the ticket holders. Especially this time of year.
    For our 40th Wedding Anniversary I bought tickets to see Loretta Lynn in a small venue in another state several hours away. We left early in the morning and drove down the day before the concert so we would be well rested for our big day. As we were driving across our entire state and into the next, poor Loretta fell at home. As we checked in to our hotel, we found out the concert was cancelled. We made the best of it with shopping and meals and headed home. The concert was rescheduled for the following December and Loretta performed live from an armchair on stage. It is still one of our favorite memories.

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    1. The small venue concerts are so wonderful. We blundered onto John Plantania (who was a guitarist for Van Morrison) playing in a restaurant in Annapolis, Maryland. It was great. It was also 40 years ago. *wince*

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  2. Dear Debby, thank you for introducing "Foreigner", thus I learned something new.
    Not to inform buyers of tickets is awful - to go to a concert often implies long travels (a couple from Hamburg told me during a Rolling Stones Concert in Munich two years ago that they came by slow train (!) from Hamburg, with the intention to go back the same way after the concert - a one way travel takes between nine to ten hours!
    I admired their stamina, but thought: "Although my motto is: I myself am responsible for the joy in my life - I can hear Meat Loaf's refrain in my head: "I would do anything...(BUT I WON'T DO THAT)".

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  3. I liked Foreigner but I didn't follow them closely and I wasn't aware of the change of lead singer. Of course ticket buyers should be informed of the date change. It is scandalous if they aren't.

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    1. I think it is the least they could do. It seems like is should be covered by the 'convenience fee'. Dreadfully inconvenient if people drive an hour to get there only to discover it has been changed.

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  4. Interesting how the ticket sellers escape off the hook. On a much smaller scale, we had tickets to a regional Drum and Bugle Corp competition. Because of the heat, they started 2 hours later, but didn't tell anyone. Only if you checked the website beforehand did you learn of that change. Linda in Kansas

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    1. I see that there has been a write up in the Erie paper. It just seems like a mass e-mail is in order though, because not everyone going to see this group is from Erie.

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  5. I saw Emerson Lake and Palmer at Manchester Apollo. A super Prog band.

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    1. It's one of those groups that can only be remembered now, never heard live again.

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  6. Oh Lordy, love me some old Foreigner and some ELP! Brings me right back to high school for sure, and dropping that stylus down, very carefully onto the vinyl, per my sister's strict rules. My sister had somehow hornschwaggled my parents into co-signing a loan for her at 14, so she could buy this killer stereo system, complete with GIANT Klipsch Horn speakers. God we heard some fantastic music which I still love today. Classic rock is the best!

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    1. We did not have any fancy sound systems, that's for sure, but I enjoyed my little collection.

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  7. Funny. I loved ELP and King Crimson but never did much like Foreigner. I've always joked that I didn't like the bands with male lead singers with high voices and honestly, I think that's just the simple truth.
    At least you have something to look forward to next April!

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    1. Yes, we will. Tim's favorite groups were Journey and Fleetwood Mac, but he was plenty excited about this one too. It's hard not to like groups that got so much airplay doing our 'formative' years. You can't help but remember the other versions of yourselves.

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  8. I only recognized that first song but I didn't know anything about who was in Foreigner. That was nice of your daughter. I could never pay that much for a ticket to any band.

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    1. *shame faced* I spent nearly $200 on Jethro Tull tickets. It was one of those bucket list things.

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  9. I guess I just assumed they went defunct after their "4" album in the mid 80's.

    One of the nice things about being a fanboy of John Prine, his tickets were always cheap and since he only did small venues, the seating was always excellent. No nosebleeds.

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    1. Tim and I always think that we are there to hear the band, not see them, so we do not mind the nosebleed seats at all. These seats are good ones. So that means that I will have to invest in earplugs or my ears will be ringing for a week.

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    2. I keep a pair in my car at all times... for spontaneous concert emergencies. I went to see a Queen tribute band earlier this fall and wore them much to the amusement of my wife. I didn't laugh when she said her ears were ringing as we were getting ready for bed later that night.

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    3. Your restraint is admirable. I have to say really loud music makes me physically nauseous. I think I might be old.

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    4. I still weep thinking about John.

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    5. We've lost a lot of musical talent in the past decade, haven't we.

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  10. I am so removed from pop music that I have no idea about thee people or groups. It's quite foggy today on this side of the divide.

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    1. Very foggy here as well, AC. It stayed that way all day.

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  11. Aahhh the music was so good "back in them days". Enjoy!

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    1. I think that we're a bit biased. It's so much better to us because it is familiar, and we listened to it when it was fresh and new...and so were we!

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  12. Amen to your assessment of Steve Howe. Yes is my all-time favorite band (followed closely by Pink Floyd) and Close to the Edge is my favorite of their LPs.

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    1. We saw Steve Howe play. It was one of those super group things. They had a revolving stage with the different musicians. Steven Howe was common to all of them. I remember Yes and Asia were two of the bands. The thing is that between sets, Steve Howe came out and did solos. The man looked cadaverous, really, dead man walking, but he out played everyone, doing all three sets AND provided the solo entertainment between the sets. The crowd went nuts. He looked like he was having the time of his life.

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  13. Ticket prices are just stupid. Honestly, I can't think of anyone I would pay money to go see and go through the aggravation of getting there. Apparently I really AM old! That was very nice on your daughter's part, and yes, April is way more better.

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    1. I have a lot of groups I wouldn't mind seeing, but when I have a chance to see a major player, we really try to do that.

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  14. That seems so wrong! Reminds me of when I was taking Larry to the airport, and we got a notice that his flight was canceled. All that prep and excitement for nothing!

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    1. The newspaper in erie made mention of the postponement.

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