The Rolling Stones ‘Bigger Bang’ tour is back after the holiday break and I was lucky enough to catch the Montreal show, which was ‘the same but different’ from their performance here at Lansdowne Park in September. They played some old gems like ‘As Tears Go By’ and ‘Midnight Rambler’ , along with new tunes. But there was one moment at the Stones show that I will never forget. Was it …their rendition of ‘Tumbling Dice’? Nope. Was it….Keith’s solo performance on ‘Happy’? Nope. It was….Ron Wood eating a banana. Yep. Right in the middle of ‘Midnight Rambler’, Ronnie just reached over and grabbed a banana from the top of a speaker, enjoying a good mouthful or two of Chiquita’s finest. For the first time in my life, I got the real answer to the question, ‘Does Ron Wood like bananas’? The answer is yes.
I don’t know about you, but I like keeping concert ticket stubs for souvenirs. Its fun to go through them every once in a while and reminisce about a certain concert. I don’t have my ticket stubs framed and hanging on the wall, or anything quite that organized. Some are in my wallet, some are stuck to the fridge, some are pinned to the wall in the workshop. But it would appear that the art of collecting concert ticket stubs may soon be obsolete. For the Stones show in Montreal, we got an ‘e-ticket’. Instead of giving the Bell Centre ticket takers a ticket, we handed them an 8 ½” by 11 inch piece of paper with seat numbers and a bar code on it. They scanned it and handed it back, so we could find our seats. There were thousands of people walking around with these pieces of paper. It looked like we all brought our homework to the Rolling Stones show.
My good friends at BARK (Bytowne Association of Rescued Kanines) are gearing up for their major fundraiser, the ‘Woofs and Wags’ Walkathon. OK , so its not til May…May 7th, to be exact, but who doesn’t like to think about the month of May during the dark cold month of January. Anyhow, to raise even more funds and get some friendly competition going, all RETREIVERS are challenging OTHER retrievers to raise the most money for the Bark walkathon on May 7th. If you have a retriever, join the ‘Retriever Fever’ team! Let’s see if we can extend this challenge to other dog breeds too…..how about a ‘Poodle Patrol’ or the “Jogging Jack Russells’…maybe the ‘Marching Malamutes’….or, what about the ‘Hiking Heinz’s’’..? For info on the walk, check www.bark-ottawa.com
Fantastic news about the Ottawa Senators games now being broadcast on both the Team 1200 AND in crystal clear 100,000 watt stereo on our very own 939 BOB FM! Just outside of Ottawa in cottage country, the ice fishermen can now have the Sens games blaring from their radios as they sit in their chairs overlooking the hole that they’ve cut into a frozen lake! Now ‘that’s’ Canadian!!
I had to chuckle while watching tv the other night, of course the federal election has hit a feverish pitch and it seems that every second tv commercial is either promoting or lambasting one political party or the other. But one particular tv commercial caught my attention, simply because at the end of the spot, a very serious female announcer asks the viewer a question. The question itself, ends with the word ‘eh’.
I think the question was something like, ‘as Canadians, we don’t want that, eh? Sheesh. Maybe they added the ‘eh’ to really speak our language. They should also offer us beer and bacon in exchange for votes. And maybe a toque, eh?
