Anyway........

Now that the Pat Tragedy saga is done with, we can move forward into real concert stories again. Recollections of recent shows and blasts from the distant past are in the works as I write this note to you good folks. Mary and I just saw the reunited Sammy Hagar-era Van Halen at the new local arena and a few weeks earlier saw Heart out at an Indian casino, so there are two distinct tales right there. Also, I'm currently holding tickets to see George Thorogood at a small club in Modesto (on my birthday, no less--we'll see if I even remember anything about that one), and Prince back at the arena here in Fresno. If you'd told me 20 years ago that I'd be at a Prince concert by choice someday, I'm sure I'd have suffered a massive stroke due to the logjam of possible retorts fighting their way from my brain to my mouth.

So I'll leave you with this little teaser. Speaking of Van Halen, look who Mary bumped into before the show. More on this later. Check back, wontcha?


Cellphone photo, 08/14/04