Child of the 70s

Oy.

We went to see Cheap Trick, Heart and Journey last night and it was a blast.

Cheap Trick is just awesome. It isn't music of much artistic merit, but it is great to hear fun music performed by a band that clearly LOVES playing in front of an audience... any audience. I've seen them in concert more than 2 dozen times and they're still fun to see.

Heart is an amazing band to see live. Don't miss them. Their music comes to life in person like no band I've seen. Both of the Wilson sisters' voices seem to have gotten stronger and better over the years. They were spot on and I loved every second of the performance.

Journey was really good. Neil Schon's guitar playing was worth the price of entry for sure. Their keyboard player was great. The new singer is awesome and perfectly appropriate for the music and the band. With the exception of one piano solo and Schon's guitar playing, the performance didn't come close to moving me the way Heart's did.

I'm looking forward to seeing Heart again when they're back in town next summer. If you can catch this show, you won't be sorry.

Pete

Lovely to be back in France again...

Coming to Menton has become a great annual event for us. This year it was much needed for both Laura and I. Laura had been teaching summer school with little time after the school year let out. I had been hammering through a busy time at work and hadn't taken a break for a long time.

I'll try and add in a post or two each day as we go through the trip.

I started using Flickr for posting photos. It is really pretty cool. I'll post up photos using it. Let me know how that works.

Menton 2008 Day 1: Arriving and settling in.

Menton 2008 Day 2: 36th Annual Grand Prix of Menton

Thanks.

Pete