Bare Naked Ladies

At ease gentlemen. You will not be seeing any naked ladies in this post.

I went to the BNL concert last night at Masonic Auditorium in (s)Nob Hill. Those of you not familiar with BNL, they're a bunch of guys from Canada who have been around since '88. Here's a review of their concert last year. Or you can check out their website.

The day started off rather badly. I had purchased 6 tickets to this show and had found 3 other folks to go. I figured I could dump 2 tickets easily. That plan works much better if you don't forget about it until the day of the show. That morning I receive emails from 2 of the 3 folks that they can no longer go to the show. Nothing like notice. The first one had to go to LA unexpectedly for work and didn't think he'd be back in time. Fair enough, duty calls. The second just flaked on it and agreed to help a catering buddy cook for some holiday parties from 4-10pm. That I'm not so cool with.

Now, I know most of you are saying well, they should still pay for their tickets. I agree. However, one of them I had told the ticket was his Christmas gift so that's out (the catering guy - kinda makes you feel crappy that is how your gift is treated). The second one is the guy who gave me a free Rolling Stones ticket so honestly, there's no way I would charge him for this one even before this happened, let alone when this happened.

Now I had four tickets on my hands at $50 each to a show that was not even sold out. How that came about I do not know. These guys are great and when I saw them last year the place sold out. I don't think there was a lot of advertising for it this year for some reason. So there I am, in the cold trying to sell $200 worth of tickets to a show that is not sold out. I think I ended up getting $80 total. That was painful!

However, on a brighter note my friend PF kept her part of the bargain and went to the show with me. The show absolutely rocked!! You know how sometimes you don't listen to a band for ages and then you see them live and it reminds you just why you started liking them in the first place? That was last night's show for me. Those guys are just hilarious. 3/4 of the show is improvised which just leaves me in stitches. Very entertaining. The opening band (which I missed most of due to selling tickets) was The LeeVees whom I knew nothing about, but were also really humerous. In between the LeeVees and BNL they brought out the Piedmont Choir. This is a choir of kids probably 5-8 or so in age. They sang some Christmas carols and were incredibly cute. I thought it was fantastic that BNL then came on stage and sang a few with them as well.

If y'all ever get the chance to see Bare Naked Ladies live, I highly recommend it! Worth every penny (and in this case it was a LOT of pennies for me).

This was brought to you by the letters BNL and the number 4.