A to Z Challenge - 2020 - Jessie's Girl

I'm using a song title for my letter again, J is for "Jessie's Girl" by Rick Springfield.  We are at the Mountain Winery and although Springfield was the headliner, there were three other groups playing that night.  Tommy Tutone opened followed by Greg Kihn and then Loverboy.  Truthfully I think we went to see Loverboy but the whole show was a good one.  Because I'm already behind I'm just going to scrapbook the Rick Springfield pictures now.  The others will have to wait.

Paper Wishes papers.  It's called "Charming." Love the rich colors. 

Even though I am not making pages for the other bands yet, I needed to include them on the title page.  I have some papers left so I'll be able to use those for Tommy, Greg and Loverboy but will probably have to mix in others.  Good thing that kind of paper is not in short supply around here!  

I used the stained glass template again but didn't get quite as detailed with cutting up the pictures.  I put some Dazzles stickers in the corners. 

He had a screen behind him which not all the acts at the Winery do.  Almost made it seem like he was at a bigger venue.  He also left the stage and went walking through the crowd.  That is always fun to see.  

I used the "Arrows" stencil to sketch that.  

The drummer, Jorge Palacios, was pretty good.  Rick sang 12 songs.  I didn't realize he had that many!  Did you know his real name is Richard Lewis Springthorpe?  I did not!  

I used this Nuvo Glitter Drop to make a center in the flowers on the page. 

He had a really neat looking guitar on the stage before he came out so I had to grab a picture. 

Saving the best for last, Jessie's Girl was the encore. 

And in the album it will look like this, almost, because I'll fit the other bands in between these pages.

The paper on one of those pages is not from the original collection.  I added it to include some extra pictures.  Can you tell which one it is?

Here is "Jessie's Girl" as we saw it. 

The "joint" was certainly jumping that night.  (Joint is the Stream of Consciousness prompt for today.  Thanks Linda!)

I have to admit that I don't have the rest of the alphabet already finished.  I'm going to try and do as much as I can with our "free" day tomorrow but I'm not holding out much hope that I'm going to make it.  I'll continue with the alphabet as planned but the scrapbooking is going to be hit and miss.  Oh well, such is life, right? 

Awe-Inspiring August 2018 - August Break

Today's prompt for #TheAugustBreak2018 is "Happiness Is..." 

Oh, you know, a lot of things are happy things for me.  I'm basically a pretty easy going person.  For the sake of the prompt though, I'm going with Happiness is Concert going.  I bet you could have guessed that.

We went to a concert last night at one of our favorite places, The Mountain Winery in Saratoga.  The view is stunning when there isn't so much haze from the fire smoke.  The weather was outstanding.  Warm but not too hot.  I had a sleeveless dress on and did not need a cover-up all night.  The bands we saw were oldies:  Tommy Tutone started off, followed by Greg Kihn, then Loverboy and the headliner was Rick Springfield. 


Of course we have to have our concert photo to prove we are having a good time.

Because there were 4 bands playing and the Winery has noise restrictions after 10:30 on the weeknights, each of the groups were only able to play about four songs.  That's kind of okay because there were only about 4 songs I knew from each of them!

Tommy Tutone:

I got a short clip of 867-5309 which is about the only song I really knew of his.

Greg Kihn came next.  

Everyone knows Jeopardy and the Break Up Song.   

Loverboy:

I considered "Hot Girls In Love" my theme song for the longest time :)

Finally it was time for Rick Springfield.  This guitar was on the stage before he started.

I think I was too old for him because when he was big on the Soap Opera General Hospital I was working during the day and while I knew the song Jessie's Girl, I wasn't really over the top in love with him. 

He does look good for 69 though and when he took his jacket off the girls were screaming.

This hard working drummer played with 3 of the 4 bands.  Loverboy had their own drummer.

After the show, Mars was visible in the night sky.

I did get some video of each of the bands and I'll be checking the quality and putting them up on my YouTube channel.  I'll let you know when they're there, or you could "favorite" me and then you'll get a notice :)  

How about you?  What does Happiness mean to you?  Do you remember these bands?  Have a favorite?  Love to hear about it.