On to last Friday’s road trip to Atlantic City with Cadillac Chris. The Frump himself and our road crew -On Tap - Billy Idol live at the House of Blues. [See Dinner picture at Hooters]
Let me say this: “ if you ever travel to New Jersey, at least on the pay roads, the new one dollar bill is now the 10 dollar bill. A Whopper lunch is $10. A Car Valet is $10. A slice of pizza and a coke is $10. A glass of Jack (a bargain) at $9.75. That sets the table so to speak for Jersey.So we arrive at the Tropicana Hotel and they bang us an additional $50 for a cot bed for 2 nights. Nice huh? Not to let the high price of American living diminish our MoJo (Gasoline on the other hand was a mere $2.34 a gallon) Figure that one out...
Anyway Friday night at the House of Blues was the place to be at 9pm as Billy Idol took the stage. The house was packed to the gills (standing room only) for all. Now I'm not a lover of General Admission shows but watching Billy Idol’s performance for the next 90 minutes was worth the sore feet.
The light show was awesome and the sound was good, but a bit loud. His band smoked too! They were all very accomplished musicians. His lead player “Steve” has been with him since the early days, and he just smoked that Blonde Les Paul.
After ninety minutes of “Flesh for Fantasy”, “Dancin' with myself” and some new selections, two of which were acoustic guitar selections that Billy played himself. He finished up with “White Wedding” a selection that Billy himself played a Strat on. No bad man - not bad. And then the last encore took us home with “Rebel Yell”. Wow, here's a guy in his 50's that when he ripped off his shirt was cut to the nines, with six pack abs and all. You go Billy! If you ever get a chance to see the boy, he's still got it all.
This girl standing next to me was saying it was the biggest crowd she has ever seen at a House of Blues show and she was a local, so she should know. Wow two record attendance setting concerts in a month. Cool huh?
Then on to Saturday, it was Steven B. Cook's Big Birthday Party. I felt bad being 400 miles away from home as I really wanted to be a part of the “Cookster’s” 60th bash. Well much like the weeks earlier show, I mentioned that of a Short Change Band reunion, and this was even a step closer to that rendition with Phil and Donnie playing too. Not to mention Johnny from the old “Harmony Road” days! The music played and Whiskey flowed. Damn I hate missing parties like that...
So in closing, the one thing you need to know is no grass ever grows under any of our feet. We live every minute to the fullest, the way life is meant to be.
Be good, be well, and see you all soon,
Mikee^Dee
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