Okay, so the past few days I haven’t felt like I was in Las Vegas. All the routes the cabs took were some odd back way so I had never seen “the strip”. Got my hands on tickets for Rod Stewart tonight (Monster Cable put on the show and David scored me tickets) and it was at the other end of town and I finally saw Las Vegas, you know the part they show on television, I feel much better that those images weren’t just special effects…
I wish I had brought a jacket with me so I could have wandered around a bit down that way but it was a little (a lot) chilly out. Maybe I’ll head down there tomorrow.
Rod was great, he was a little raspy at times, but he was great. Did some older songs* (What a Wonderful Life and Addicted to Love) and those were great too. Managed to get up real close for the second half of the show.
* On the the songs that weren’t his I noticed that he had a karaoke machine tele-prompter for them, which he glanced at a few times, what surprised me was that it appeared to be going during his songs too (although it wasn’t apparent that here was using it). Later: I found out he recently recorded an album of old songs so that explains a little.
Hope you’re having a great new year, dear! :)