The Bon Jovi Experience
This past Friday we all went out to see a Bon Jovi tribute band. It was a good night out. The band sounded hot, the singer was not an exact copy but you could definitely give him kudos for trying… if not trying a little to hard at times. The affected American ac cent he insisted on using all night began to grate after a while. I guess he was trying to give the audience a full “Bon Jovi Experience”, but once you have heard the Jon Bon Jovi speak either in an interview or in concert then you know what he sounds like and no amount of trying is going to replicate that.
What I did dig was the use of links between songs that the band had used themselves, it bought back memories of when I had seen them live. It was uncanny at times I knew what he was going to say and, at times, sing before he did.
What pleased me more than anything though was getting to hear a live band (any band) sing Raise Your Hands and Never Say Goodbye live. Those two songs are real stand outs from the Slippery When Wet album that I have never seen or heard performed live by Bon Jovi. So when they kicked in I was clapping my ass off in thanks.
It was a great night out, something we don’t get to often. The next night out will be a Pink Floyd Tribute band Great Gig In The Sky at the end of July.
On Saturday Linda and I went to her works Lu au (I am letting spell check loose on that one). It too was an OK night.. I really don’t like thing like that especially as I knew no one there… mind you having said that.. the lovely ladies of Morrisons seem to like me as I have never been kissed as much by so many different women than I was that night… well at least since i was a cute chubby baby.. but then they just wanted to “… Just eat my cheeks up whole….”
I got to meet Linda good work friend Mary and her husband and her daughter and good friend from London Ryan. I am lousy at names but they seemed like really good people. So that was a good point of the whole eveneing.. I even got to take a snakebite bath towards the end of the night… Snake bite for those not in the know is English Cider and Beer with Blackcurrant juice mixed together and it’s lethal when drunk in large quantities… luckily I saved them a hangover when someone poured a whole pitcher of the stuff over me.
Yesterday was Lindas’ birthday and we got her a DS and a couple of Brain Training games to go with it.. that should keep her quiet and occupied when she is on her own. We had a chinese meal for dinner and we all seemed to enjoy it… even if the Pancake rolls were rank leftovers that shouldn’t be fed to a pig let alone a human being… not bad for a meal from a new takeaway that we hadn’t used before.. you live and learn as they say.
Well that me up to date for now.
Until Next Time…