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So tonight I took Michele to the Van Halen concert at MGM. I wanted Michele to see what a rock concert was like. Until tonight she had never been to one. I also figured if you're going to see one for the first time Van Halen was a good one to see. Well, we'll see what she posts tomorrow on her blog. Hehehe. Now matter what, I'm glad she went and got to have the experience and with a band I really like.

In any case, the last time I saw Van Halen it was in 89 at Star Lake in Pittsburgh. Sammy Hagar was with the band then. Tonight's concert was with Diamond David Lee Roth. It was the last performance of the first leg of their world reunion tour. And yes, I got a concert t-shirt. $35 for a single t-shirt. For those that do not know, this is not bad. I still have my t-shirt from the 89 tour. It too was $35. I thought for sure that with inflation, and the crappy performance of the US dollar right now, that shirt was going to cost me $80. In fact, I think just about every concert t I've ever bought was around $35. Unless your into it or know about these, it will defy your personal logic as to why anyone would shell out that kind of money for a t-shirt. What-ever, here's mine.

Tonight's concert also marks the first time I've used ear-plugs for such an event. Wow, I had forgotten just how loud they are but we went prepared. I'm glad I had those things. It actually made the music cleaner to listen to. Without them I was hearing a lot of distortion or complete gibberish in the higher tones. With them in, it all cleaned up.

Michael Anthony is not on this tour. Instead, Eddie's son Wolfgang is playing bass. He's good but definitely not the type to bounce around on stage like his old man does. He pretty much just stood where ever he was and just played.

I would show you pics but my new phone royally sucked at getting shots in there. It has a ton of issues with low light and to make it harder, there was theatrical smoke everywhere the entire time for the lasers and other lights they were using throughout the show.

I was lucky I even got tickets for this. The day they went on sale I forgot and didn't buy mine until four hours after the sale opened. I got tickets for the second day in section 204 row H. That means about 20,000 seats sold before I got mine.

They're stage was actually S-shaped with part of the crowd in the S but I could not get a seating chart from tonight's concert. This is one for an upcoming event. But our seats we're still up there.

I'll leave the rest to Michele. I can't wait.

So to recap, seats high! Pictures Bad! Concert good!