the Femmes

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I had seen, on the Violent Femmes' website, that they were doing a show on May 27th. I had forgotten about it until the night before. The show was to "open" the new stage that Miller had built on the Summerfest grounds (called The Miller Light Oasis, I guess). So naturally, Cyn and I were wanting to go. Nine o'clock yesterday morning, my friend Joe called, saying he'd gotten us tickets. Turns out that the show was by invitation only. You had to get tickets from the various promotions that were being run. It was a good thing that he got them, or we would have been thwarted at the gate.

There were four bands playing. We arrived in time to see the second. The Five Card Studs. Oh boy. were they. great.

After that was Ben Folds. I was a bit disappointed in his show. I just couldn't get into it, somehow.

Naturally, the Femmes did a fun show. The crowd contributed to that. Being warm out, it was the first summer night this year. People were out dancing, drinking and having fun. There was a drunk guy next to me, who was talking with me during Folds's set. Mostly he was pointing out the obvious, but a few things he said were just dumb. At the start of the show, Victor said, "we're honored to be here, at the Miller Light, Violent Femmes stage."

On the ride home, Cyn and I were watching a thunderstorm, from the county line, north. There was a lot of lightning, including a few huge ground strikes. From our driveway we could see the clouds rising high into the air, but we couldn't hear any thunder. Turns out the storm was in Sheboygan. That's pretty far way. I wonder what those ground strikes were like.

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When V and I got home around Midnight, I read that you guys had gone to the concert...I wondered about the weather; the radar showed all bright read and orange way north of Milwaukee at that time. they had a doozie move through, looks like.