a blast from the past.....

My daughter, Bethany, dances to the beat of a drum that only she hears. I always tell her she was born about 20 years later than she should have been. This morning as I was taking her to school she slips a cd in my player and we rocked out to Sweet Child O' Mine by Guns-N-Roses. Now when I say rocked out I only mean that we both were singing and doing the Axel Rose sway, we weren't head banging or anything like that...although we have done that before just not while I am driving. I am not much of a head banger, never have been really but I like to have fun with Bethany and music is one way for me to do that. Listening as dear old Axel belted out the lyrics took me back to my teenage years, my first concert was my favorite band at the time Motley Crue and opening for them were Guns-N-Roses. That was just a few months before G-N-R really became "big time" as a matter of fact at the time nobody really knew who G-N-R was but we all liked the music they were rockin'. I remember having to beg and plead for permission to go to that concert because I was only 13 at the time and my parents weren't too thrilled with the idea of letting me go but alas they gave in since my cousin, their favorite neice, was taking me. When we arrived at the concert I didn't know what to stare at first, all the people or the stage but I figured it out real quick when the G-N-R took the stage. We were on the floor as close to the stage as possible which was spitting distance and I think I learned more that night than any other in my life. The first thing I learned was "if you wear a mini-skirt always remember to wear panties, especially if you are attending a concert and you plan to sit on some mans shoulders for a while." I also learned that when the crowd starts swaying back and forth, sway with them, I learned that you can get a major contact buzz just from being around folks who are passing joints around and that if you are a short person such as I, (5'.5") you do NOT need to stand in the crowd on the floor because those wild people will swallow you whole. Within a half hour after Motley Crue hit the stage I remember feeling out of sorts because I couldn't breath from all the hot bodies, cigarette smoke and smoke from joints being passed around. I was very disoriented and the next thing I knew some gigantic tall man had me on his shoulders and I could barely hold myself up, I did have one heck of a view of Vince Neil though :). Once I got my breath back and could stand on my own, my three cousins and I decided to move on up to the lower balcony.

That concert was the beginning of my love for concerts. Poison was also another favorite band of mine and I saw them perform 5 times and neither of those times did I even think of getting on the floor. Since then I have been to so many concerts that I have lost count, the most recent concert that I attended was on April 12, 2007 when I took my 15 yr old daughter to see her favorite country singer, Dierks Bentley. That night Miranda Lambert opened then Jason Aldean then Dierks Bentley, it was a great show and of course it brought back so many memories. The Dierks Bentley concert was held at the Knoxville Civic Auditorium and Coliseum which was where I attended the Motley Crue/ Guns-N-Roses concert, most of the other concerts I have attended have been held at Thompson-Boling Arena or The World's Fair Park.

Anyways, there is a small blast from my past, how about yours?