Hot for Van Halen!

Last night, I went to the Van Halen Concert at the American Airlines Center. What an incredible time!!!

Van Halen rocked!! Eddie and the boys looked good and rocked hard. They played for over 2 hours and did a couple of encores. As many of you know, I'm enamored with Nancy Wilson and her "Heart Kick." But Diamond Dave (at age 53 no less) can still do those high kicks and roundhouse kicks like he did back in the Jump and Panama videos. That was hot!!

But let me digress.... I should have known this would be a fabulous evening when we went to eat and I got a front row parking spot. And when we easily found the AAC and got a great park there too. We walked in the front door and were at our section and easily found our seats. I mean, good karma was on our side. It was great!!

So Jenice and I make it to our seats and we people watch. To our right, Tony Soprano. He's got the Italian mobster hair, clothes, requisite patch of chest hair with a chain. He's got his lovely wife, Ms. Jersey Mall Hair, sitting right next to him. He loved to throw his hands in the air to the music.

Behind us and to the left, George Lopez. This rather hefty, happy, high on drink, drugs or both guy was talking, laughing and carrying on. George peaked in between This is Ryan Shaw and Van Halen. Most of the concert he sat in a stupor. Or was he asleep? I think he frightened our other friends, Date Night, sitting right behind us. Date Night look like they might not have even been born when David Lee Roth was with Van Halen. George Lopez scared the tar out of Ms. Date Night. Mr. Date Night politely smiled and spoke with him. Date Night did a lot of standing and sitting, not much singing and dancing.

Directly behind us - Cool Concert Goer and his grandpa. He liked to shout out "Mother F*****" after each song - I'm still not sure why he does that. Tourette's? His uncle/father/grandfather/whatever pretty much sat the entire concert with a bored look on his face.

And in front of us, The Mid Life Crisis Twins, Greg and Mr. Gay. These two were there for Mr. Gay's 40th b-day. Mr. Gay kept talking about gay people, but told us about his wife and kid. His mannerisms were very effeminate... Deja vu!!

The opening act was This Is Ryan Shaw. Or is that his album? It wasn't bad, but it wasn't great. Though he did do a mean cover of Janis.

The concert was great! I wanted to hear Panama, I'll Wait, and Hot for Teacher.... and I got my wish. Apparently DLR does not do the Hagar Van Halen, so if you were younger than 35, you might not know all of the music.

A couple of shoutouts:

1. To Valerie Bertinelli - thanks for writing the book that made Eddie "need a break."
2. To Eddie Van Halen - thanks for needing a break and cancelling your March show - I hope you are feeling better!
3. To Danyielle and Eddie - thanks for the tickets - this would not have happened without you!!
4. To our new best friends from Section 111 - thanks for a great night of entertainment - y'all rock!!
5. Eddie, Alex, David and Wolfie - thanks for an awesome night! My Van Halen mix CD will continue to get a lot of play time!
6. Jenice - thanks for going with me on our "Most Karmic Adventure"!!!!