Starlight is really a fantastic venue to see/hear a concert, right smack dab in the middle of KC. Probably 60-70 years old, they've done a great job of keeping that place up. I'd say it seats at least 5k and with lawn seats/standing room only, maybe 7,500. It was sold out last night.
Anyways, we get there and I buy a $9 beer and go find our seats 5 rows from the stage. Best seats I ever had at any concert that wasn't GA. Rack my wife's work for hooking us up, VIP parking passes as well. And the weather was perfect, so I'm feeling pretty good about this whole dealio.
Foreigner opens up with Double Vision and just about tears the joint down with the first song and it just kept getting better from there. Those fuckers were really, really good. Not quite as good as Styx whom I had seen there 2 years ago, but damn near. I guess they played for an hour and a half or so and whatever they got paid, they earned every dime of it.
Told the wife that Journey would have a hard time matching that and boy was I right. This Filipino homeless kid that they picked up to replace Perry? FAIL! And here I had heard such good things about him. Maybe he was having a bad night but he butchered everything, damn near unintelligible. The band tried to cover for him but it didn't work. I almost felt embarrassed for the punk, but he had no business up on that stage.
We left about 30 minutes into the show and to illustrate how bad they were, I left half a $9 beer under my seat
