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Ha! Tried to tell my daughter, but of course, she knew better. Got home drenched, think her expensive cowboy boots got soaked, if not full. Big blisters. But I am just a fool for suggesting discretion as the greater part of valor!
I'm not sure what the real point of this post is as you're making fun of your offspring for the majority of it. We were all young once and all experiences make us who we are. Especially when you've paid $$ for big name concert tickets. Cut her a bit of slack as I bet she was a bit crushed not having great weather to listen/watch in.
It was Luke Bryan and he's fairly big in the country music world.
I know a non-teenager who went and said it was a good show but miserable weather. I've heard of him and knew he was popular, but I'm not up on the music scene anymore!
So in the end, I'm sure it was worth it to many people, but they would have preferred better weather!
I'm not sure what the real point of this post is as you're making fun of your offspring for the majority of it. We were all young once and all experiences make us who we are. Especially when you've paid $$ for big name concert tickets. Cut her a bit of slack as I bet she was a bit crushed not having great weather to listen/watch in.
It was Luke Bryan and he's fairly big in the country music world.
I had never heard of him either (or if I had, it wasn't in a context that got my attention).
I doubt anyone can keep up with all these here today gone tomorrow artists, in any genre. It's not like the old days where the people at the top of charts are so talented their albums would still be selling 40-50 years later. Mostly a bunch of trendy one hit wonders that use electronic pitch correction to mask their lack of talent. Then they disappear, are mostly forgotten except for the occasional play of their 2 or 3 most popular songs on Pandora, and that's about all they've got. Maybe they'll get a reality show in the future if they're lucky. Sorry but its true, and it's not their fault. Corporations worked their magic on the music industry first, then video killed the radio star, then the Internet killed the video star. With the very occasional exception and showing of talent, most of these "artists" are selling their look, their sex appeal, and the fact that they are closer in age demographic to a target audience that cares less about the music than about fashion and just making sure they do something a little different and more shocking than the generations before them. The next generation of kids probably won't go to the concerts of anyone who didn't get their start in porn. It's all about pissing off the parents.
Hey, mods, can we rename this to the Grumpy Old Men thread? Jeesh!
Scram twerp, and stay off my lawn!
(lol)
Seriously though, I'm not even old yet, just making a statement about the music industry that is measurably true. My point was just that I don't think the OP was ragging on her kid by not being familiar with the artist, it's hard to keep up with who is who in an industry thats gotten battered like the music industry (to some extent through tech related piracy, Napster etc), so I'm not blaming anyone or saying "those kids are wrong because they're too young to understand and when I was their age..." yada yada. Artists are transient these days. Very few of them last. That's not a grumpy old man thing. A lot of kids (particularly musically inclined ones) these days listen to music from their parents or grandparents generation, and wonder why music was so much better back then (it was based on how the artist sounded, instead of how they looked).
It's not the only thing in life that's not made like it used to (shaking my can at you again)
Having under-the-roof tickets at Walnut Creek (or whatever it's called these days) is no proof against getting wet, unless you are lucky enough to have seats up front and center. I've seen wind-blown rain come right in under the roof.
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