Bizarro World 2024!

[olds442jetaway]

Still struggling up there. It’s almost like AI knows what I will bet next before I do. I found out ( was on the news ) that Bizarro has been using AI for several months. Our overnight Tuesday was a disaster for both of us. I started to make a comeback Thursday night, but was eventually destroyed. A few pics attached.
I did enjoy my best ever concert at Bizarro.
CHICAGO!!!!!…..A few stills pictured.

[Tedlark]

Well olds, glad you at least had fun at the concert. Their manager, Peter Schivarelli, is a HUGE supporter of the University of Notre Dame Marching Band along with several other university related programs. My niece was a member of their marching band for 4 years and the band was routinely gifted with SWAG from Schivarelli. And, not exactly cheap trinkets either.

[olds442jetaway]

……The only other time I saw them was at UCONN in 1970. They appeared with Sam and Dave. Our hack band performed 25 or 6 to 4 at the Student Union. I played Lead Guitar. Our reel to reel tape of our attempt went off to Texas after my roomate graduated never to be seen again. . I met Sam and Dave at Bizarro quite a few years ago after their concert at the Wolf Den. As long as we are on the general subject, Bowzers final concert will be at Mohegan Sun in January. Jay Siegel ( 85 now ) will be there. My wife and I had morning coffee and bagels at Mohegan about 10 years ago with Jay Siegel and his wife Judy. A really nice couple. Happened quite by accident. Was the morning after their concert with Bowzer. We made many of the Bowzer concerts over the years.

[Tedlark]

Some really cool stories and memories you have, olds.

[olds442jetaway]

You as well! I could go on, but why bore the gang OK one more for now……A good friend of ours and musician was personal friends with Jay Black. ( Jay and the Americans ) We had pizza with them also at Bizarro about 15 years ago. Jay would bet on anything . R.I.P….

[doris13]

olds i also love Chicago,i've seen them twice,once in vegas and once in atlantic city.i have also met Bowzer and saw his show in vegas and even saw him with Sha Na Na in Elizabeth NJ.great music and great memories.

[olds442jetaway]

…..and many more to come I hope for all of us Doris and Ted and everyone here……

[billryan]

Around 1998, I was in a bar in AC when a guy showed up with a fistful of tickets. He was trying to fill seats at the Chicago show that night at Caesars. About a half dozen of us went and were given decent seats in the two-thirds full hall.
Chicago comes out and breaks into a Christmas song. WTF. The song ends, and they break into a rocked-out Rudolph. It turned out they were taping an album of Christmas songs. Three songs later, we left, as did much of the crowd. I'd have liked to see the band in a real concert.

[Tedlark]

Around 1998, I was in a bar in AC when a guy showed up with a fistful of tickets. He was trying to fill seats at the Chicago show that night at Caesars. About a half dozen of us went and were given decent seats in the two-thirds full hall.
Chicago comes out and breaks into a Christmas song. WTF. The song ends, and they break into a rocked-out Rudolph. It turned out they were taping an album of Christmas songs. Three songs later, we left, as did much of the crowd. I'd have liked to see the band in a real concert.

Don't you like Christmas songs?

[olds442jetaway]

O well……they haven’t retired yet BR. Still have a chance to go. Anyway, good to see a post from you. Just curious, do you live anywhere near OTABILL in Arizona?

Guess I’m staying off VP talk for a moment, but that’s why I named this Bizarro World. Does anyone remember their first concert they actually had to pay for??? I was 18 and took my high school girlfriend to see The Four Tops at Yale Bowl…..Borrowed my super fast Grandfather’s car 1961 Plymouth Fury. I almost got a ticket, but was honest with the local cop and he let me go with a stern warning. I told him, very sorry, I was trying to impress my girlfriend!! I wasn’t really speeding, but screeched the tires peeling out of the parking lot at McDonalds.