The Piano Men

So in the nasty, rainy, cold weather, Gary and I took off, yet again, downtown to see Elton John and Billy Joel. We almost didn't even see the show. Traffic into the city was a nightmare. Along with the concert, the basketball tourney and supposedly the car show were also going on making the in and out of downtown practically impossible. We banged our way through to our usual CNN parking deck to find it closed. By this time I was like screw it, let's go eat. Some nights you see a concert, sometimes you don't. As we were making our way back out, we noticed they were letting cars in on the backside so we parked and made our way into Phillips.

The show started right at 7:30 with the Elton and Billy playing four songs together (2 and 2). Then Billy and his piano disappeared under the stage and Elton did his set. He disappeared and Billy did his, then they did six or eight more songs together. I'm a huge Billy Joel fan and have seen him quite a few times. This was my first time for Elton, and well, he was good, but that's all I need to see of him. They were great together and as always, Billy rocked his part. They finished up four hours later at 11:30.

One of the best parts of the whole show was the people watching. Since Elton lives here, MANY of his peeps were there giving us a most entertaining show. We had awesome seats. We were about 10 rows up on the side. We were on the aisle which led right to the front rows which were packed with several hundred of the cutest, most vivacious, homosexual men! Throw in Jeff Foxworthy and several leprechauns and you've got yourself quite the show.