{"id":923,"date":"2017-01-02T02:14:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T20:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=923"},"modified":"2024-12-06T00:28:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T18:28:36","slug":"a-class-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=923","title":{"rendered":"A CLASS ACT"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well, it’s New Year’s Day 2017.\u00a0 Where did the last<\/span><\/strong>\"Santa six months go?\u00a0 I write a blahg about Superman in the middle of June in 2016 and then it’s more than half a year before I get to a new one.\u00a0 In that last blahg, I included a poem called “if you’d be a superman”.\u00a0 The title is appropriate because I’m certainly not the man of steel.\u00a0 Let’s hope I get this blahg done today.\u00a0 I started it several times in December and hoped to have it done by the end of 2016.\u00a0 Now I’m aiming for January 1st, 2017.\u00a0 Here goes nothing.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This blahg has a certain theme to it but there is also going to be a mishmash of sorts.\u00a0 The main point I want to talk about is two class act bands that I had the opportunity to interact with, of a sort, in December and prove that sometimes the smaller the band, the bigger the heart.\u00a0 I know that’s like schmaltz but I haven’t written in a while so you get what you get.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Let me first start off by talking about The Weepies.\u00a0 \"The<\/a>I have talked about The Weepies before and if you have read previous blahgs you should know by now that The Weepies are an American indie pop-folk duo of married singer-songwriters Deb Talan and Steve Tannen.\u00a0 There are other musicians that have performed with them but I want to focus on just Deb and Steve.\u00a0 The reason for this is that they recently did an acoustic tour in the USA and Canada.\u00a0 Okay, there were only two cities included in Canada, Toronto and Montreal, but Toronto was enough for me.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I am not a big fan of Facebook.\u00a0 Don’t ask, that’s another blahg altogether.\u00a0 The only Facebook page I follow with any regularity is The Weepies’ page.\u00a0 In November they announced they were going to do an acoustic tour in their mini-van with just Deb and Steve, their children, and their guitars.\u00a0 I was excited but there were no Canadians dates announced.\u00a0 There was one date on December 1st in Buffalo, NY, and I thought I might be able to make that event because it’s only four hours from where I live.\u00a0 Luckily, my daughter Emily was monitoring a concert posting website for Toronto when The Weepies announced that they were going to give a show at the Drake Hotel in Toronto on December 2nd.\u00a0 You can well imagine, and it was true, that I bought my two tickets right away.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I won’t go into a lot of other details about the show except to say the venue was interesting.\u00a0 My wife and I had to walk thirty minutes from our hotel to get there and then stand in a room with about a hundred people throughout the entire concert.\u00a0 I stood on some stairs so I could see a partially unobstructed view of Steve and Deb.\u00a0 My legs were tired at the end of the night but it was a wonderful concert.\u00a0 I found these images online from the concert in Toronto so you can see what I mostly saw:
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