On tap for November 1, Van Halen at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC.
The Donk and I meet up and come down to DC for the VH show. For me it's handy to park and walk about 2 blocks to the arena. Saves money and parking is very secure. All in all a great show, and I'm glad we made it to this and the show last month in Philly.
The setlist was the same, but I had become more familiar with the set since seeing them, so I recognized a couple of songs I didn't know. Building up to this show Donk informed me at there was a disaster of a gig a couple of days before in KC, MO. From my point of view, this show was fine and the band seemed tighter then the month previous.
The plan was to grab dinner at Legal Seafood, but the place was packed! We waited a while, hoping a spot would open, no dice. We ended up grabbing arena food.
Since we've seen the show already (the Donk actually took in both shows in Philly), we made up a game, "Daughter or Girlfriend". Since this was a heavily geezer show, there seemed to be a bunch of older guys with younger girls. It was up to us to determine if it was the guys daughter or girlfriend. The next part of the game was to find a female at the show, not a daughter, under the age of 30. This proved very difficult. I guess it's just part of growing older...
Sitting next to me was a 40-something (maybe 50?) chick . We chatted a bit. She started out the conversation with saying, "...I need a beer!" And I'm thinking, "Well I ain't gonna buy you one!" She asked, "So when did you see Van Halen last? I saw them in 1984!" I told her, last month. It just wasn't clicking. But all in all, a good show.
Sitting next to me was a 40-something (maybe 50?) chick . We chatted a bit. She started out the conversation with saying, "...I need a beer!" And I'm thinking, "Well I ain't gonna buy you one!" She asked, "So when did you see Van Halen last? I saw them in 1984!" I told her, last month. It just wasn't clicking. But all in all, a good show.
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