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Post by inger on Mar 9, 2024 1:37:26 GMT -5
Thanks Kay! Neil hasn't been to Chicago since the pandemic. You’ll definitely have fun. For added fun you could run to the venue and back home, and run in place during the show… 🤓 |
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Post by kaybli on Mar 9, 2024 1:39:48 GMT -5
Thanks Kay! Neil hasn't been to Chicago since the pandemic. You’ll definitely have fun. For added fun you could run to the venue and back home, and run in place during the show… 🤓 Chi doesn’t even own a car. He just runs everywhere he goes while listening to Rockin in the Free World on his headphones. Didn’t you know? |
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Post by inger on Mar 9, 2024 1:42:15 GMT -5
You’ll definitely have fun. For added fun you could run to the venue and back home, and run in place during the show… 🤓 Chi doesn’t even own a car. He just runs everywhere he goes while listening to Rockin in the Free World on his headphones. Didn’t you know? Why own a car when you’re Mercury himself… |
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Post by inger on Mar 9, 2024 1:45:42 GMT -5
You’ll definitely have fun. For added fun you could run to the venue and back home, and run in place during the show… 🤓 Chi doesn’t even own a car. He just runs everywhere he goes while listening to Rockin in the Free World on his headphones. Didn’t you know? By the way. I’m heading to bed. I’ve started sleeping almost every night. It's a bit odd, though. I sleep 2-3-sometime 4 hours, get back up for 2-3 hours and then sleep again… Not so bad, I’m not getting out of bed at 1-2 in the afternoon. More like 8-10 AM. No afternoon naps (except I dozed in my chair today)… |
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Post by kaybli on Mar 9, 2024 10:13:07 GMT -5
Chi doesn’t even own a car. He just runs everywhere he goes while listening to Rockin in the Free World on his headphones. Didn’t you know? By the way. I’m heading to bed. I’ve started sleeping almost every night. It's a bit odd, though. I sleep 2-3-sometime 4 hours, get back up for 2-3 hours and then sleep again… Not so bad, I’m not getting out of bed at 1-2 in the afternoon. More like 8-10 AM. No afternoon naps (except I dozed in my chair today)… Glad you are sleeping better Inger! |
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Post by 1955nyyfan on Mar 9, 2024 11:03:50 GMT -5
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Post by chiyankee on Mar 9, 2024 11:22:40 GMT -5
You’ll definitely have fun. For added fun you could run to the venue and back home, and run in place during the show… 🤓 He just runs everywhere he goes while listening to Rockin in the Free World on his headphones. Didn’t you know? That was true the five years that I lived in Chicago. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 9, 2024 11:38:18 GMT -5
He does still tour a lot. He's coming to Chicago later this year with Stevie Nicks. That sounds like an interesting duo. You going? … It does seem like somewhat of an odd pairing. Although perhaps not as odd as some of these, opening act listed first: Jimi Hendrix/Monkees -- 1967 The Who/Hermans Hermits -- 1967 Lynyrd Skynyrd/Queen -- 1974 Bruce Springsteen/Anne Murray -- 1974 The Ramones/Toto -- 1979 |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 9, 2024 11:39:55 GMT -5
That sounds like an interesting duo. You going? … No, it's at Soldier Field and I'm not a fan of stadium shows, I just doesn't feel like a concert. I'm going to Neil Young & Crazy Horse in April!  What is the venue, Chi? |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 9, 2024 11:53:16 GMT -5
I remember that concert!! Also performing were Gary Wright (post-Spooky Tooth) and the Pousette-Dart Band if those names ring any bells. JFK was a cavernous old place. As you say, Army-Navy was played there for many years. In fact some years it was the only event held in that place. The Rolling Stones started several tours there, and Springsteen and Michael Jackson and just about any big name. First stadium concert I ever went to was 1967 at JFK. Tickets were one dollar, presented by Schmidt's Beer. The Rascals, The Box Tops, Country Joe and the Fish, the Delfonics. Whatever year that Farm Aid concert was held, JFK was one of the venues. Phil Collins played in the first concert at Wembley Stadium in the UK, got on the Concorde, and played at JFK that same evening! Where in South Jersey did you live? Remember the Philadelphia Bell of the World Football League played at JFK in their one year of existence. Haddon Township aka Westmont, N.J. located in Camden County. It is a confused town with 2 names with no post office and a shared zip code with Collingswood, the home of "Little Joe" aka Michael Landon from TV's Bonaza fame. I don't know how I missed seeing this when you first posted it, Clipper -- so did you go to Collingswood High? That was one of the many school pennants that used to hang on the wall on "American Bandstand" when it was based in Philly. At the same time Michael Landon was setting national high school javelin-throwing records at Collingswood, future Duke basketball coach and college basketball broadcaster Bucky Waters was playing hoops there under coach Jack McCloskey, who later coached at Penn, Wake Forest and the Portland Trailblazers. He was also the Pistons' GM who put together the "Bad Boys" teams of the late 80s-early 90s. Waters used to talk about him on some of the broadcasts. I had a friend I visited now and then in Haddonfield. What a nice little town that is. A lot of players from the four Philly pro teams have lived there over the years, as you no doubt are aware. |
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Post by chiyankee on Mar 9, 2024 11:54:26 GMT -5
No, it's at Soldier Field and I'm not a fan of stadium shows, I just doesn't feel like a concert. I'm going to Neil Young & Crazy Horse in April! What is the venue, Chi? Northerly Island which is just off the Chicago lakefront. For years the island was Meigs Field Airport but that was closed around 20 years ago and replaced with a park, museum and a pavilion concert venue. It's a little annoying because there's an amphitheater in Tinley Park, around 10 minutes from my house that holds a lot concerts in the spring/summer/fall season. I wish it was there instead. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 9, 2024 12:07:33 GMT -5
Northerly Island which is just off the Chicago lakefront. For years the island was Meigs Field Airport but that was closed around 20 years ago and replaced with a park, museum and a pavilion concert venue. It's a little annoying because there's an amphitheater in Tinley Park, around 10 minutes from my house that holds a lot concerts in the spring/summer/fall season. I wish it was there instead. That's still a nice venue Chi. During my brief time in the corporate world I once flew into Meigs from St. Louis on Ozark Airlines. Now there's something you can't do today! And a lot easier than coming into O'Hare. Good to be right there sticking out into Lake Michigan. I remember when the Mayor illegally had the control tower bulldozed in the middle of the night so that he could shut down Meigs and build that current venue there. Chicago politics at its best. |
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Post by inger on Mar 9, 2024 12:24:50 GMT -5
Northerly Island which is just off the Chicago lakefront. For years the island was Meigs Field Airport but that was closed around 20 years ago and replaced with a park, museum and a pavilion concert venue. It's a little annoying because there's an amphitheater in Tinley Park, around 10 minutes from my house that holds a lot concerts in the spring/summer/fall season. I wish it was there instead. If you don’t stop bitching about such a minor annoyance you’re going to come off as… an OLD MAN! Take a look at your life! <See what I did there?> I swear, I have a HEART OF GOLD!! I’ll see myself out… 🤓 |
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Post by inger on Mar 9, 2024 12:31:04 GMT -5
By the way. I’m heading to bed. I’ve started sleeping almost every night. It's a bit odd, though. I sleep 2-3-sometime 4 hours, get back up for 2-3 hours and then sleep again… Not so bad, I’m not getting out of bed at 1-2 in the afternoon. More like 8-10 AM. No afternoon naps (except I dozed in my chair today)… Glad you are sleeping better Inger! Happened again this morning, except this time I might have slept straight through if one of my dogs hadn’t woke me to go outside at 4:45. Went back to bed around 6:00… |
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Post by inger on Mar 9, 2024 12:58:25 GMT -5
Chi doesn’t even own a car. He just runs everywhere he goes while listening to Rockin in the Free World on his headphones. Didn’t you know? That was true the five years that I lived in Chicago. I can’t imagine not owning a car, but then again I can’t imagine living in a city, either. I get the heebie jeebies just imagining living within the limits of a small town. Did you bicycle around, walk, take taxis? Teleport? … |
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