It's not such a great picture, taken with my cell phone, but here you have it. Rod at Blossom, I don't think I have missed one of his concerts, since day one.
What you see here is a giant screen behind him at the microphone and a fantastic stage set up. We had gold seats to the tone of $150 each. Was it worth it? Well, of course, but what it got you this time is hearing Brian Adams sing, then we had to wait while they took that bad stage set up down and put Rod's up, Whew!~ not what I want to pay for at all. And...it left Rod with only one full hour to sing and that was just not enough of a dose of time for us big Rod fans to enjoy. Don't do that again Rod! We liked Brian, but we paid to see Rod. Our seats were to the right of the stage not too far back and the huge speakers right in front of us just blasted us out, way too loud, but I guess that's what has to be to reach all the fans on the lawn way back.
The night was hot, it rain hard, and Rod was having problems with his ear piece, he at one time just walked off the stage in the middle of a song. We didn't know what was happening! Then he reappeared without explanation. Said his ears were sweating, I imagine this would be a problem. But no, there was no cooling system in place to cool him off, like fans, or such. His wardrobe was fab, and he looked his best and had what looked like a rosary around his neck? We enjoyed all the fine pictures of his family and youngest son which periodically appeared on the big screen. But really wanted more time of him. The crowd was in good spirits and he did not appear till nearly 9:45pm. Many soccer balls were distributed out to the crowd, but there were more waiting from a guy in the sidelines, but Rod failed to distribute. Rod, don't you know how important that is. I can tell you because I have two, that I caught in past concerts. One is autographed and one is not, that my son caught. And that was the concert that we had front row, center seating!!!!!!! And it's quite a thrill to get one!
All in all, of course his concerts are a great experience ~ and to all you Rod fans out there, you know what a treat they are. But we in Northeast Ohio, are in a crunch, and need a full concert to see when we pay that price for a ticket. Wasn't it in Cleveland that the first disc jockey played Maggie May? Don't forget that Rod.
, too. Her favorite day dreaming perch is the ivy patch. Where there is alot of chipmonk action.
