Mullet Rock '06 Review

"Pour Some Sugar on Me!"

So, I'm awake now and I have a sore throat and ringing sounds in my ears but I'm happy. The Def Leppard and Journey concert was cool. We danced and sang along with the band (for the songs we knew anyway) and rocked out to many all time faves. It was worth the time spent sitting in traffic to get to the concert pavilion. Hopefully my friend who drove thinks it was worth it and isn't pissed off that she offered to drive.

Anyway, there were definitely quite a few memorable moments that will emerge in the memory banks whenever I hear a def leppard or journey song now:

1 - The oh so drunk chick in the sombrero-like straw hat next to me that spilled beer down my leg like every other song and who almost fell face first into the seats infront of us had it not been for her boyfriend or husband or whatever who had to keep grabbing her upright by her pants loop.
He apologized profusely to me every time she almost fell on me, slammed the back of the seat on my leg, grabbed my thigh to steady herself, etc. While the painful seat slamming was annoying, she was quite entertaining at times with her erratic rhythmless dancing that I attributed to the ginormous cans of beer she was guzzling. I'm pretty sure she is seriously hung over and possibly bruised today.

2 - The sight of old rock stars who think they're in the same shape as they were 20 years ago! Come on people. I paid to hear you perform your songs, not flash me with some old man boobies! Ugh. Put a damn shirt on and play the freakin' song.

3 - Mullets, mullets, and more mullets in leather pants. Ok, so while two memorable mullets were wigs, there were some real mullets among the bunch. There were numerous blond mullets, two black mullets and a striped pink and blond and maybe blue mullet. Get out of 80s people and heck, at least move up to the 90s or something.

And guys, really? Leather pants is what you choose to wear in 80 degree weather? Seriously! Seriously? I'm sure chafing is an issue today.

4 - Traffic to Nissan Pavilion! I mean, come on. The coordinators know there's a concert going on so what do they do? Nothing. Yeah, I know traffic typically sucks in No. Va but damn. Also, why were there a million "pavilion parking pointers" standing five feet from each other in a line wearing bright ass pavilion orange shirts directing you towards parking as if you couldn't see the line of cars parking, and not one freakin' orange shirt pavilion pointer in sight when we were trying to leave the parking lot?! Oh wait, I forgot, we saw five on our way out of the lot right at the exit after sitting in the parking lot for like an hour without moving an inch.

5 - Last, but certainly not least, is a note and not a rant. I'll remember an evening hanging out with a cool friend, people watching and listenin' to some good 80s music. Rock on. :-)