Jun 2001
Kenny Chesney & Tim McGraw
06/29/2001 10:54 PM Filed in: music
Mike, Shauna, Dawn and I saw Kenny Chesney & Tim McGraw in Marysville at the Sac Valley Amphitheatre. It was a great show with Kenny getting the place really pumped for Tim. He did "I Wanna Know How Forever Feels" and released about 20 "big orange balls" into the stands. When the first verse ended, "I wanna know how Jimmy Buffet feels..." he and the band broke out into "Margaritaville" and then continued the song. The highlight of his show for me was his cover of Billy Joel's "You May Be Right."
Tim McGraw was electrifying! His show was just as much visual and anything else with huge screens just behind the band that provided some cool backdrops to his tunes. His show opened with the Elton John classic "Tiny Dancer" which he started singing in the middle of the audience on a barstool and then made his way to the stage walking through a sea of crazed fans. Tim did a lot of songs from his new album "Set This Circus Down" and a lot of his classics. During "Don't Take The Girl" the screen in the back was showing the words to the song so everyone could sing with him (as if there was anyone there that DIDN'T know the words!) Mark Collie, Kenny Chesney came out and helped Tim finish the show with the last song. Oh, and in case you were wondering.... there was no Faith
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Extravaganza 2001
06/28/2001 09:54 PM Filed in: family
events
Our 21st
year. This year we took over the Gunn House
Hotel in Downtown Sonora. The weekend was chocked
full of partying, drinking and karaoke with
undeniably the greatest performance of
"Devil..."
done
by Joe
and The Gang ever! There was an
unusually bad version of "You
Don't Bring Me Flowers Anymore" done by two nameless
people that was thankfully ended before the end of
the song. Someone checked the box that
increased the key of the song up a few steps and the
singers didn't realize it. And then of
course, there was the pranks! Breaking in and
thrashing rooms was not too difficult since the rooms
were very old and the locks were antiquated simple to
pick. Salt in bed sheets, lotion on toilet
seats, shaving cream on the door handles all made for
a great weekend. Kelly came up with a great
song-title game to play around the pool. Of
course, the newbies did get the "Saints" march -
courtesy of Mike, Shauna, Dawn and Tony. Who
knows what fun next year will bring!!!