My Cats Are Jerks, But the Band "Heart" Are Not

My friend Sarah took me to see Cheap Trick, Heart and Journey on Friday night. It was awesome. Heart was especially awesome. They can still rock out and they played all their hits. They also played "Love, Reign O'er Me" by The Who and "Going to California" by Led Zeppelin. The only disappointing part is that Heart didn't totally "Kick it Out" (pun intended) during the song "Alone". They kept the song pretty subdued despite many opportunities and teasers that led the crowd to believe that they were going to let loose during that song. How do I get Heart alone???

Sarah and I were going Crazy on Them. I'm giving the proper rock hand, but Sarah looks like she's in the "WHAZZZUUUUUUUUP" commercial.



Here's a picture of Ann and Nancy from Heart slumming it with Fergie. Fergie Ferg must have jumped up on stage unexpectedly. I refuse to believe that that Heart would stoop so low that they would knowingly perform with her. Look at the perplexed look on Ann's face? "WTF, Nancy - who is this talentless hack?"

I got some shaky video and pictures. I forgot my camera, so all I had was my BlackBerry. Here are two pictures of the screens.



Here's a video of the Wolf sisters, who refuse to ever stop believin'



We didn't see much of Cheap Trick, as they went on right at 7, and we were still in line. Heart was awesome...did I say that already? Journey, unfortunately, played only a few of their hits. Most of the songs they played were off their more recent albums (snore) and they totally jumped the shark when they played "Don't Stop Believin'" about 3 songs into their set. At least they saved "Any Way You Want It" for one of the last songs. We were all in agreement that Heart should have headlined. Steve Perry didn't tour with Journey (perhaps he knows when to let go?), so they had this tiny dude that sounded just like Steve Perry, but he looked kind of like Taboo from Black Eyed Peas.



Whoa - two BEP references in one post. I'd better stop typing soon. This post is getting dangerously close to being shitty.

The people-watching was absolutely amazing. I hope that VICE magazine attended the event with the intention of devoting their next Dos and Don'ts section to the concert. The crowd was a panoply of people ranging from young 20-somethings who have lost track of irony to people who were frozen in carbonite by Darth Vadar the moment they finished watching Empire Strikes Back in the theatre in 1980 and now they've been unfrozen just in time for the Cheap Trick, Heart and Journey concert. I wish I had brought my camera, because there were some choice characters. We got the biggest kick out of the people who seemed like they hadn't gone to a large event in years and made the most out of it, complete with "mom dancing" and "drunk uncle swaggers". The dude in the blue jacket below almost fell on Sarah all night. Some may look at that sentence and say that it must be grammatically incorrect, but rest assured, he was in the process of falling on Sarah all night, but he didn't seem to once tip over all the way. The other picture below was of a 50-something woman air guitaring SO HARD. I thought that her pants were going to start on fire.



There were lots of scrunchies as well.



Is my name Michael J Fox? Because, it was like back to the future, but without that 60's malt shop and Drapes vs Squares charm.

Then I came home to this...

Jerks!!