April 07, 2005
No..No..Notorious!
Posted by Jess in
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Sunday night Matt and I were enjoying taking out Matt's cousin to Dave & Buster's for dinner in the Providence Place Mall. At 5:30 when we were getting ready to leave, we got a call from our neighbors. They never call my cell phone, so I needed to make sure everything was OK. "Are you anywhere near your house?" he asks.
Now. Let me interject here. Here's a great example of what NOT to say when there is absolutely NO emergency at all. So once we had established on the phone that my house was NOT burning down, not being robbed, and no one was having a medical emergency, it turns out that they had two free extra tickets to go see Duran Duran (new album tour) at the Mohegan Sun Casino Arena. Sweet!
Thanks to the lovely smallness of our big little state, we were able to leave Dave & Busters's, which is in Providence (right at the top of the state) at 5:30, drive home, let the doggie relieve herself, freshen up, drive to the Sun (CT, near Mystic), and managed to meet our neighbors outside the arena entrance at 7PM.
What a show. They all looked great. Simon has aged very, very well, and it was obvious (which they also later announced) that they were most certainly not expecting the screaming fanatical welcome they received. It was about 5 minutes of solid screaming before they could even get a word out.
They played some of their new stuff, which to be honest I hadn't heard (it was OK), but mostly all the old songs we know and love. Everyone else was holding out for Rio (the encore, as Matt correctly guessed), while being difficult as usual, all I wanted to hear was Ordinary World.
The times they are a' changing, though, which was made apparent during the slow grooves of Calendar Girls. Simon announced that he wanted to see a show of lighters. If you didn't have a lighter? "Hold up your cell phones! I want to see a sea of blue and purple!"
How cool was this? The ratio of cell phones to lighters was staggering. Looking out into the arena yielded a few speckles of small orange flames, but they were completely outnumbered by the glow of hundreds of cell phones that were held up.
I just think of what a fantastic world we live in, in which I can see one of my first music videos ever (Union of the Snake) on V66 (UHF video channel) when I was about 9 years old, and finally be able to see them live 20 years later... only to find that while the national nicotine level has drastically reduced, the radiation level has gone up considerably.
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Jess, I'm glad you enjoyed the show!! I drove a total of 4500 miles, saw 6 shows in Feb and March. :) I gotta tell ya, the new album is FAB! You need to go pick it up and give it a chance. You got a great mix of songs there! They didn't do Hold Back the Rain at any of the shows I saw, and didn't do A View To A Kill until the two last shows when Andy wasn't there.
Now go get Astronaut!!! ;)
Wait a minute now..how old were you when Duran Duran first made it big? and be gentle:-)
Debbie: 4500 miles! How great is that? Is that the first time you've ever done that for a band? I'd love to do that... They did a View to a Kill, complete with all the screens set up in the background. So cool....
Chris: I'm not sure when they went big, so I can't really answer that. I do know that Union of the Snake was in 1983, so I was 7 then, I had the wrong age (arg math). Rio and Hungry like the Wolf both came out in '82, and I'm pretty sure they were both huge hits! :-)
I live in Missouri and they didn't come here this time, or for the reunion tour in 2003, so I drove to Texas. :) But the Texas trip in '03 wasn't 4500 miles! In Feb, they did 4 shows in Texas, one all the way down at the border in Hidalgo. That followed by the Austin, Dallas, and Houston show racked up 3000 miles. Then I went up to St.Paul and Moline for the shows last month, 1500 miles.
Did you hear they're coming back late summer too?!? No dates or places yet, though.
I really like their new album and will have to let you borrow it to see how you like it. ^_~
I too received one of those heart-stopping phone calls - mine was from my 17-year-old driver.
She called, asking me "Where is the insurance certificate for my car." Turns out it was a minor traffic ticket, not a "I just totalled the car" conversation.
But, file that under "what NOT to say" ...
- Rob
