Tess - Music and the things we did together

 When Tess loved a group I tried to get tickets. The groups we went I see included Journey, Bon Jovi twice, once in Greenville, Wanted, wanted, dead or alive. Pink, in Atlanta, probably the best concert we ever went too. Pink was just and incredible performer and much deeper in her song writing lyrics than many people gave her credit for. I loved the song Try and that’s how I got hooked on Pink. Tess loved John Bonjovi and Ritchie Sambora the lead guitarist in the band. Tess loved Annie, Annie Lennox and Sting. I got tickets to see both of them in Nashville. There was no evidence that they were in town and even when we got to the outdoor venue it was a secret. We had seats in a covered area near the stage and I think Tess figured out that it was Sting and then a couple of gay guys sitting in front of us said Annie Lennox and Tess went nuts… Sting and Annie!!! It was a great night and I decided that what made these white bands great was their black back up singers.

When we went to see Pink it was in Atlanta and I got a hotel near Underground Atlanta. Underground had been rediscovered and reinvented while we were there while in college. It was a very popular place. But when we went back for this concert it had become run down. The hotel was nice enough and we took a cab to the the concert. I had gotten in the habit of taking a taxi to and from the concert to avoid driving at night, this was before Uber although we did use Uber to go to concerts and two that I hadn’t mentioned were Darius Rucker and Hootie and the Blowfish. Darius was great but he had a terribly LOUD opening band called something like the bee stingers. Hootie was good, that was in or on Daniel Island in Charleston. We walked there from the hotel on a board walk trail. Very cool.

We also went to see Kieth Urban who was great but also very Loud and very long. And was saw I think her name is Vonda Shepherd as the opening act for Annie Lennox as a single act and I think that was in Atlanta and I think that’s when we met the kids of the guy who invented the Keurig Coffee maker. We shared a cab with them and struck up a conversation. They told us how they used to sit a a table and make the k cups like on an assembly line.