I had third row seats to see them this weekend, so of course I couldn't pass it up. I can't say I am a gigantic fan of either band, but they definitely had their hits back in the day.

My little road trip began around noon. I drove to Chinook Winds in silence as the antenna from our '99 Expedition has mysteriously disappeared and I had only static on the radio once I passed Sherwood. It was a very long and silent trip. Why didn't you listen to a CD, you ask? Because we don't have a CD player. We do have a cassette player but really, does anyone still listen to cassettes? Besides my sister?

I wanted to listen to my iPod but I was afraid if I had my ear buds in, someone might call and REPORT ME for driving while listening to an iPod! I was sure to drive the speed limit and not tailgate (see last weeks entry). I even took pictures to prove it.



Here is the speedometer on exactly 50 MPH. This is me NOT SPEEDING!



Here is me maintaining a safe distance behind the car in front of me. 
This is me NOT TAILGATING!

So I arrive at the beach Saturday to the most glorious weather I have seen there in years. It was 55-60 and sunny. No breeze. Gorgeous! Chinook Winds was sold out so I stayed at my friend's parent's house. This is a huge mansion of a house ten steps away from the beach. Three stories! And I have it all to myself!

The only catch is I have to be sneaky about it because he doesn't want the rental company that manages the house to know I'm staying there or they would charge him. So I'm sneaking around on my tippy toes, no lights on, no heat, like a little church mouse. (Seriously, I can't make this shit up!)

I grab some lunch and walk on the beach. My calves are sore.

I head to Chinook around 7:15, thinking I can get a drink in the bar before the show starts at 8. Wrong. The line was 20 feet long. They were at or above capacity. I went downstairs and took my seat in the theater. 

If you have never been to Chinook for a concert, it's set up Vegas-show style--large tables to sit around take up the majority of the tiered floor with five rows of chairs in front of the stage. I was hoping to get a drink at my seat. Nope. Water and soda only. Alcohol consumption, even a small amount, greatly impacts the amount of fun some people can have at a show, trust me.

Loverboy took the stage promptly at 8pm. They were very good actually. They did all their big hits: "Everybody's Workin' for the Weekend," "The Kid is Hot Tonight," "Hot Girls in Love," and "When It's Over." I very much wanted to hear "Lovin' Every Minute of It" but they didn't play it.

They did do "Turn Me Loose" and had a certain young, gorgeous woman join them onstage. They referred to her as Jesse Money. HELLO JESSE MONEY!


Yep, that's her. I wondered if she came with her own pole? Money, you ask? Yep, this is EDDIE MONEY'S DAUGHTER!!!!!!!

She sang only one song with "Loverboy" and as smashing as she was, I, along with the rest of the front of the audience, couldn't help but notice the big disturbance going on around us. It seems that a certain group of ladies happened to be GIGANTIC Loverboy fans and were having a very, very good time. 

These poor women just wanted to dance around and party hard but apparently there is no dancing or having fun when you have a reserved seat five rows in front of the stage. They kept dancing wildly and the security guards kept telling them to sit down and behave. They would jump up and dance wildly, the cops would run over and corral them. This went on and on for the duration of the show. Back and forth, back and forth. On and on. 

Then of course, the rest of the audience wanted to join the fray, most of them siding with the ladies. As soon as security ran to contain the ladies, another group would stand up and dance, showing their solidarity to the ladies.

These are the ladies having fun, bless their souls:


Security harrassing them and man behind them taunting:


This is just too good.

Loverboy looked good. That's all I have to say about that. The guitarist looked just like Ted Nugent!


Eddie Money comes on just after 9:30. I tried to go get a drink during intermission. Denied again. Too crowded. 

Eddie has such a distinctive voice. He opened with "Two Tickets to Paradise." He played his sax and his harmonica. He did a tribute song to Ray Charles, "You Don't Know Me." He did "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" with Jesse and only forgot the words once. He did "Endless Nights" and it brought back memories of when I first heard that song and saw his video on MTV! You know the song, "When you gonna call/I think it's worth the time/something something something/all these endless nights." Remember? I loved that song!

Eddie's daughter was onstage the whole time and he talked about her and her upcoming MTV Reality Show  the whole night. I gotta admit, this girl can SING! She did a Janis Joplin song, "Turtle Blues," and the audience went crazy. She sang back up for her dad the whole night. He made comments about her short-shorts and then said he was lucky "she wasn't Britney Spears." They were very endearing. 


Father and daughter share the stage.        Eddie plays the sax.

Apart from Eddie Money looking like a 70-year old Frankenstein, he sounded great. He couldn't go wrong with a hottie like Jesse next to him. The best part of his set was the older woman who purchased a pair of white silky panties at the gift shop right outside the theater (yes, they sell them there) and try several times to throw them onstage, price tag still attached. She must have approached the stage 5 times, even trying to force them into Eddie's hands at one point. He wasn't taking them, his wedding ring and daughter getting in the way.

I didn't stay for the whole set. I headed back upstairs, bound and determined to get that drink. Denied. The line now wrapped around the entire upstairs area. Chinook Winds is quite the happenin' bar on the weekends. And the show did sell out Friday and Saturday night.

I snuck back into the house I was staying at, read for a little bit in the dark, and was sound asleep by midnight. I drove home SAFELY the next morning.



This is me maintaining a safe distance behind the car in front of me at exactly the same spot I was reported last time. I even went the speed limit.