Come On Justin It's A School Night!

You would think the people who schedule shows for Justin Bieber would be more considerate to his fan base. My 9 year old is at his show tonight with her mother on a school night! Doesn’t he have school in the morning too? :)


The two girls spent a good part of the day getting ready for tonight. If I didn’t know better, I would think they were going out to try and score teenage boys.

Alissa’s new concert outfit was cute for a 9 year old, but my wife’s outfit was hot. What the hell! I took her to a Tom Petty concert a couple of years ago and she looked like she was going to work!

This will be Alissa’s first concert. I was 17 when I went to my first concert, Foreigner at The Forum in Inglewood, former home of The Lakers.

I saw a lot of shows back in the 80’s. Here is a list. I saw most of these shows before I got married at 21. It’s a lot.

Foreigner, The Police, The Who, The Clash, David Bowie, Journey, Heart, Elton John, Billy Joel, John Cougar, Queen, Def Leppard, Billy Squire, Oingo Boingo, Men At Work, Stray Cats, INXS, Flock of Seagulls, The Pretenders, Missing Persons, Berlin, English Beat, and Styx.

These were the bigger names. There were probably just as many smaller shows that I saw too.

Most of those shows were good. Oingo Boingo and the Stray Cats were really fun to see. They just got up there and played while everyone else bounced around and had a great time. Queen and Bowie had big elaborate shows with lots of glitter, not as fun, but very well done. If any of these shows were disappointing it might have been Elton John. It just seemed like he was going through the motions.

When I went to see Tom Petty with my wife at The Indian Wells Tennis Gardens it had been over twenty years since I had been to a concert. And some things never change, the smell of pot. I had to laugh to myself when I smelled that familiar scent about twenty minutes into the show. I guess some of us never grew up.

I wonder what kind of mischief goes on at a Justin Bieber concert? I doubt there will be pot smoking. I’m sure I’ll get the low down on that tomorrow morning.