It Pays to Drink Coors Light!

jhiggins · Jun 30, 2004

Sunday I was busy nailing up siding and was getting thirsty. Linda was heading to the store for some groceries and I told her to pick up some beers. When she was in the beer aisle, the Coors distributor saw her put an 18-pack in the cart. He approached her and said, "Ma'am, I see you are buying a Coors product. I'd like to give you a couple tickets to see Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire at the Verizon Arena!"

My wife came home all bubbly and dancing about with the good news. I told her, "See? I told you my alcoholism would pay-off some day!"

So tomorrow night we go to a concert I guess. Pretty cool. Last concert I went to was Monsters of Rock in England back in the late 80's. This ought to be a little mellower to say the least.

rhrocker · Jun 30, 2004

Gosh, last "concert" I went to was to see Michael Martin Murphy in Red River, New Mexico. You guys lead exciting lives!

jhiggins · Jun 30, 2004

What are you saying? You live in Uvalde! That's a happening place I hear...

Probably about as "happening" as Brackettville, huh?

Dan Gray · Jun 30, 2004

last one I when to was the beach boys What was like 1978 I think.

it was a wife thing

Jeff did you ask if you could trade the tickets in, for more beer?

indian george · Jun 30, 2004

The last concert that I went to was James Taylor @ Boston Muisc Hall and he had a full head of hair. Come to think of it so did I back then.

mete · Jun 30, 2004

Coors LIGHT is beer???? You drink it ? I wouldn't even quench steel with it.

Darren Ellis · Jun 30, 2004

You lucky dog! Though, I don't think I'll start drinking water beer for concert tickets!

I guess the last concert I went to was David Byrne (formerly of the Talking Heads)...or maybe it was the last time when KISS and Ted Nugent came through town...hmmm, I can't remember... I'm assuming that the symphony doesn't count, we go to see the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra fairly regularly during the season...my wife can get us those cheap student tickets!

-Darren

Steve Hayden · Jun 30, 2004

Coors light is what Monty Python referred to as "sex in a canoe" in an old video. Since this isn't W&C, I can't take it further than that but I'm sure some know the quote.

jhiggins · Jun 30, 2004

Dan Gray said:
Jeff did you ask if you could trade the tickets in, for more beer?

Yeah... I told her she should have asked to upgrade to a 30-pack instead.

jhiggins · Jun 30, 2004

mete said:
Coors LIGHT is beer???? You drink it ? I wouldn't even quench steel with it.

But I only use it to wash down the Knob Creek! Besides, if I buy the really good stuff, my son drinks it all.

fitzo · Jun 30, 2004

I saw the current incarnations of both those bands on the tube recently. They both still sound great. Superb guitar player for Chicago. Have fun at the concert!

Please report back how many of those older 60/70's style used-to-be-longhairs are burning one in the audience like in the old days. Just curious.....

Last concert: Bonnie Raitt and (our favorite) Little Feat, 1994.

Peter Atwood · Jun 30, 2004

Ah, Knob Creek....now that's some delicious whiskey! Coors Light though....even Rolling Rock is a step up.

Sorry, can't help being a total beer snob after being a homebrewer for so many years. I like the really tasty stuff.

Last concert I saw was the drunken spectical called Guided by Voices about two months ago. I was deaf for a day afterwards and reminded of how old I'm getting. Couldn't bring myself to go this week to see two other bands that I really like even though there are finally some decent shows coming around after a long time of nothing.

ddavelarsen · Jul 1, 2004

Last one I went to was last fall, Red Dog, Bob Weir's attempt to recreate the Dead. Sigh. Too many actual Dead shows behind me to give that one have any weight. I think the best concert I ever saw was REM in about 1988, and I had bad, bad seats... Never forget it though. We've been doing the symphony some too; but I always fall asleep after the intermission. My wife hates it when I take the "good" car, but I just gotta listen to some music once in a while - Doobies, Led Zeppelin, Grateful Dead, Proclaimers, Nilsson. Hmmm, maybe she'll have to drive the rusty car again today.

As to the beer. I had to give that up, and I miss it on these sweet summer nights. A cigar on the deck just ain't the same without some heavy beer sweating the glass...

jhiggins · Jul 1, 2004

Tap the Rockies and get cocky!

Hey Mike Fitz... I'll definitely be looking around at the aging crowd trying to recapture their youth. The big thing with me is that I don't think of either Chicago or EWF as being the types of bands people would be puffing away at. Now Pink Floyd...

C L Wilkins · Jul 1, 2004

jhiggins said:
What are you saying? You live in Uvalde! That's a happening place I hear...

Probably about as "happening" as Brackettville, huh?

Uvalde is "the big city" as compared to Bracketville. The only happening places in Bracketville are Bubba's Beverage Barn (free ice with the purchase of a 12 pack), Burger and Shake and the Pico Convenience Store where you can get hand dipped Blue Bell ice cream. Other than Fort Clark, that's about it except for Alamo Village, where the John Wayne version of the movie was filmed in the 60's.

Craig

jhiggins · Jul 1, 2004

LOL! I lived in Del Rio for four years and never once went to Alamo Village. I went to Ol' Mexico all the time though. Ciudad Acuna - Boy's Town every Saturday night!

Spent a lot of time out at Lake Amistad too.

GANNMADE · Jul 1, 2004

Boy's Town

Man I worked at the EL Paso refinery back in 95. Those hands were blowing $1600 paychecks and asking for a draw the next day

fitzo · Jul 1, 2004

jhiggins said:
Hey Mike Fitz... I'll definitely be looking around at the aging crowd trying to recapture their youth. The big thing with me is that I don't think of either Chicago or EWF as being the types of bands people would be puffing away at. Now Pink Floyd...

Yeah, yer right, Jeff. I could just picture all the yuppie middle age couples coming out of the 'burbs around here in their beemers and Lexus's to "reminisce and sway" to Chicago, and having a doob in the pocket just wouldn't be their style...

I have the bad habit of remembering Chicago not by their last twenty albums or so, but by that very psychedlic work of their first album, CTA. South California Purple and Freeform Guitar and I'm A Man. Good stuff for a guitar nut like me.

Guess I need to pull out the Pink Floyd "Pulse" tape and "reminisce" some meself. "IIII'lllll beeee baaaaackkkk laaaaaaaterrrrrr."

indian george · Jul 1, 2004

fitzo said:
Guess I need to pull out the Pink Floyd "Pulse" tape and "reminisce" some meself. "IIII'lllll beeee baaaaackkkk laaaaaaaterrrrrr."

Oh Boy!!!! Aren’t you trying to quit smoking??? That means pot too.

fitzo · Jul 1, 2004

Yeah, George, life just ain't like it used to be for me. My allusion to drugs is just memories wistfully wishing for past times. Nowadays, recreational drug use means Nicorette gum, coffee, and maybe two shots of whiskey a year. Hell I even quit the narcotic painkillers I got via perscription. Jeesh I'm getting old and "citizen-like".

As far as the smoking goes, I'm doing pretty well. Smoke a few a day when the crazy times hit, but only a few. I think I may even beat this cr@p this time.