Afternoon,
Guys…
So, I was
gonna write this up when we got home, but, as you can see it didn’t get
done. SO, here we are!
Last night
was really fun. We got to the Wagner a
little after 7, so after we checked our tickets, we went to the souvenir booth,
where I bought Joey a shirt with Al’s mug on it. I offered Ashley. Sometimes she gets something, sometimes she
doesn’t. She says she’s not used to
people offering to get stuff for her. They
had new stuff as well as retro, which was cool.
While we
waited, I noticed, like always, there were two other crips there. Both were elderly, both had someone pushing
them. It was good to see them out. It was sad we were the only younger ones,
though. Of course, Weird Al’s a niche
artist, he ain’t for everybody. Then,
they let us in.
Funny, we
were sitting in the same row we sat for Fluffy, BUT more in the middle by the
sound booth, AND, we got to sit together this time. They just moved a couple chairs like any
other place would. Hmmm, it’s funny how
different people are. I would hope that
the ushers at Fluffy were just going by the book, but something tells me
otherwise. Anyhoo, that’s their karma.
Opening was
Emo Phillips, who was with Al in UHF
back in the day. It’s corny fun, of
course. He railed on everybody, cleanly
of course, but, he still railed…including a soon-to-be-married couple. He’s always had a raspy voice, which’s his
schtick, but Joey and wondered about the breathy-ness, he sounded like he was
working to breathe, which was a little disconcerting. We’re gonna watch UHF and pull some Youtube bits to see today.
After
intermission, Al came on for a two and half hour set, that was literally all
over the place genre-wise. During his
oldies medley, he pulled “Eat It” to the tune of “Layla,” which worked really
good. He also worked “Amish Paradise” in
with another tune, but I can’t remember it.
Hopefully, Joey caught in one of the videos she made. Then, he called it night.
After a
little prompting, he came back for an encore, which ended aptly with “The Saga
Begins.” The only thing that didn’t go
as Joey wanted was she wanted a chance meeting and for Al to sing “Fat.” He’ll be back.
Be good to
each other.
-J-
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