Wandering Aimlessly

Wow. Totally, totally wow. Last night, I went with Meghan, Greg, one of Greg's frat brothers (can NOT for the life of me remember his name... it's a bit of an unusual name...) and Greg's parents went to see the Billy Joeyl and Elton John Face to Face Tour. Quite possibly the best concert I have ever been to. (I know, I know, you're shocked... but *NSYNC's Celebrity Tour was a close second <.g>)

They played about a half-hour together at the beginning, starting at about twenty to eight. They were both pretty serious at that point, dressed in suits. It was wonderful, although there are a couple songs they did that I'm not sure whose song it actually was. <.giggle> Songs that I know, but I am awful at knowing what artist sings what song, and with the two of them splitting up the parts, I wasn't sure who it originally belonged to.

After that, Elton stayed and Billy's piano disappeared beneath the stage. Elton was wearing a bright blue suit, blue shoes, and red sunglasses. Be played for about an hour. He and Billy had both been sick (they had cancelled Thursday's show... thank goodness for being well enough last night!), and I felt bad. Elton had to keep spitting in this pot between songs because he must have been all phlegmy. But he still sounded amazing. There are only a couple of songs he did not sing that I had hoped he would (Circle of Life, Candle on the Wind, This Train Don't Stop), but many, many more that he did play that I loved. And only a couple I didn't know. He would get up and stand on his piano bench between songs, or walk around the stage. He was very cool.

Then Elton's piano went under the stage and Billy's came back up. He, too, played alone for about an hour. I have to admit that I may have developed a slight crush on Billy Joel. I loved him! He was much less serious than Elton. He kept spinning around on his bench to sing to the people behind him when he didn't have to play the piano. He covered an Elvis song and played with the microphone, spinning the stand above his head, flipping it this way and that, and finally launching it across the stage to a stage hand. He danced, he bounced around, he played the piano with his butt. He was having a GREAT time, and it was very obvious. He also talked to us a lot, where Elton didn't say too much, just playing the piano and singing instead.

After Billy's hour, Elton came back out, dressed in a different suit. This one was all black and bedazzled all across the shoulders and back with sparkly jewels. He was wearing different sunglasses... kind of like J.Lo sunglasses. They played together, which was by far the best part of the show. They again did a bunch of their "hit" songs together. Billy was a hoot again. He did a jig on top of his piano (which were the biggest freaking pianos ever.... Meghan called it a "baby Grand" and I looked at her like she had lost her head. It was probably three times as long as a normal Grand! Like a stretch grand. <.giggle>). Then Billy slid across Elton's piano and ended up on his stomach, with his chin propped in his hands, staring at Elton as he played. They got goofy together, too. People were throwing roses on the stage, as well as bras. Elton put on a bra, put a rose between his teeth, and strutted around. Then he proceeded to take the rose and bop Billy on his bald little head with it as Billy played. Such goofy guys.

They sounded amazing, both of them, and together, even better. They left the stage and then came back for an encore... this time, Elton was dressed in a track suit. And different sunglasses. They did Great Balls of Fire at one point (can't remember if it was in the encore or during their "together" set). The last song they did was "Piano Man," which I had actually forgotten about. When Billy put on the harmonica, I was like "OH! PIANO MAN!" Love that song.

So, all in all, they played for about three and a half hours straight. We left there at about 11:15, 11:20. By the time we got out of the parking lot and home (and we took a detour that saved us a TON of time... when we went back by the venue on the expressway, there was still a parking lot FULL of cars trying to get out), it was almost 1:00. I was so awake last night that I couldn't fall asleep until about 2:30, after having worked all morning (a horrible, awful day I will spare you all from), so I'd had to get up at 5:30. On a Saturday. So wrong.

So I was completely exhausted, and therefore did not wake up when my mom tried to get me to go to church. It's Palm Sunday. I feel bad. I did not even hear her at 8:30 when she came in. I got up about 11. Oops.

Today, I NEED to do my taxes. I have put it off for just about as long as I possibly can, which is a Bad, Bad Thing. I should have been responsible and gotten them done in February. Oh well. So that is on tap for today. It is a gorgeous-looking day out, so I might want to go outside, but we will see how long the taxes take. It's already almost 1 pm. Eeep. The day is gone!