Last week I was busy with various things and never got a chance to come back and finish this… We went back to see Blondie the evening after I posted that last entry, and had a great time. Because we couldn’t get there quite in time, we missed the first song and half of the second but at least we made it. For me, it was kind of surreal, to finally see a band I’d liked since I was a kid and also to see them looking so, well, old… but they put on a great show and I was very glad I had the chance to go.

The audience ran the gamut from middle-aged looking couples to punkish looking kids, and as they were performing “Heart of Glass” it struck me that this was a song that was popular a quarter of a century ago and a good portion of the audience wasn’t even born when it was first released. While this made me feel a bit ‘long in the tooth’ it also made it all the more impressive that Debbie Harry and the band could still put on such a good show, and attract such a diverse audience that were clearly there to see the band and enjoy the performance. Contrasting this with last year’s Taste of Addison act, Collective Soul, who introduced themselves by announcing “we’re here to entertain you with music … that was popular ten years ago” (I don’t remember exactly how it was worded, except for the ten years ago part) and wrapped up with a bizarre and tired AC/DC cover, it was all around a great experience.

Of course, being the dumbass that I am, I forgot the camera.