Hazen Street<\/a> …<\/p>\nFronted with two heavily tattoed guys (imagine that) who share lead vocal responsibilities.<\/p>\n
Despite being the way opening act,<\/p>\n
Meaning they were nobodies I’d guess …<\/p>\n
I thought they were good.<\/p>\n
I’d go see just them again.<\/p>\n
I have no clue what their lyrics were,<\/p>\n
But the beats grooved nicely,<\/p>\n
And they had this fat sumo wrestler dude playing a mean bass,<\/p>\n
Plus their drummer really kicked.<\/p>\n
Thumbs up to Hazen Street.<\/p>\n
Sum 41 is a Canadian band,<\/p>\n
Which means I could go on for hours with smart ass comments about them,<\/p>\n
But I won’t …<\/p>\n
Because despite having a fairly dimunitive lead singer,<\/p>\n
Whose excessive use of swear words,<\/p>\n
In combinations even I haven’t thought of using …<\/p>\n
Worn out whatever entertainment or shock value it was supposed to have …<\/p>\n
After about 2 minutes,<\/p>\n
The band was good.<\/p>\n
They opened with a film of a bloody one-on-one basketball encounter,<\/p>\n
And really worked up a sweat out on stage.<\/p>\n
A power problem dropped the bassist mid-way through the opening song …<\/p>\n
So the band did some impromptu banter while a replacement power source was secured,<\/p>\n
And they actually showed a little personality.<\/p>\n
Again, despite not having any idea what their lyrics where opining …<\/p>\n
I enjoyed the music.<\/p>\n
Thumbs up to Sum 41.<\/p>\n
Good Charlotte finally took the stage around 10:30 pm …<\/p>\n
And did a little more than a one hour set.<\/p>\n
I’m guessing that the lyrics to Good Charlotte’s music have special meaning to their fans …<\/p>\n
Because the crowd out on the bop floor seemed to vocalize along with the band non-stop.<\/p>\n
I found the beats a little less enjoyable than those of Sum 41 and Hazen Street,<\/p>\n
But Good Charlotte put on a nicer show than the other two,<\/p>\n
And I honestly liked their cleaner version of punk rock …<\/p>\n
Compared to the shock-jock flavor of Sum 41.<\/p>\n
I guess I’m just getting old.<\/p>\n
Good Charlotte were clearly the stars of the night.<\/p>\n
Thumbs up to Good Charlotte.<\/p>\n
“So,<\/i>” I said to the dude wearing the cowboy hat as I walked over to him, “what’s the deal with the cowboy hat? Your kid sister that you brought here want you to wear it?<\/i>”<\/p>\n
“No,<\/i>” he answered with a laugh, “It was just the first thing I grabbed before we left. You’re right though, it’s a pretty young crowd here tonight. You’re like mid-twenties too?<\/i>”<\/p>\n
“Hell no, I’m old … I’m 32.<\/i>” So I lied, shut-up !! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
“That’s not too old, it’s not like your 40.<\/i>” Bastard.<\/p>\n
“True,<\/i>” I whispered while looking away, “Anyways, here’s the scoop, you two are very attractive men, I mean very attractive. And there hasn’t been anything close to an uanimous decision on which one of you two is to be deemed king of the middle school prom here tonight.<\/i>”<\/p>\n
“Well thank you,<\/i>” said the cowboy and baseball player in unison.<\/p>\n
“Sounds like that beer you’re drinking is doing the talking though,<\/i>” added the cowboy.<\/p>\n
“Like I haven’t heard that before. Doubtful though, this is just my second and I’ve been drinking beers before you two were even walking, remember … I’m old ! \ud83d\ude42 So I tend to have a fairly decent endurance, but that doesn’t matter … ’cause I’m here to conduct the personality portion of our hot guy pageant.<\/i>”<\/p>\n
“We’re brothers,<\/i>” the baseball player interjected into the conversation.<\/p>\n
“No way,<\/i>” I replied while noticing Faye and Marsha out of the corner of my eye watching me work it.<\/p>\n
The boys then sort of started posing for me in attempt to highlight any similarity between them …<\/p>\n
And there did appear to be a common look, their eyes and nose could have been familial.<\/p>\n
“Well, you both have noses in the middle of your face,<\/i>” I finally tossed back, deciding not to give them any love with agreement. “What are your names?<\/i>”<\/p>\n
“I’m Ben.<\/i>”<\/p>\n
“I’m Luke.<\/i>”<\/p>\n
Yes, you know it.<\/p>\n
It just blurted out.<\/p>\n
And confirms once again,<\/p>\n
My dorkness transcends gender lines.<\/p>\n
“Oh, as in Luke Skywalker and Ben Kenobi from Star Wars.<\/i>”<\/p>\n
Dammit Amy, come on … stop being such a butt !!<\/p>\n
Fortunately, they both laughed.<\/p>\n
“Well, it does show your age, not many people here would know the name Ben Kenobi from the original Star Wars … none of them were born before any of the first three were released,<\/i>” Luke chimed.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know, maybe that’s where our parents came up with the names, I was born just after the first Star Wars came out. But our sister isn’t named Leia,<\/i>” added Ben.<\/p>\n
“Chewbacca maybe?<\/i>” I offered, which garnered devious smiles from both of them.<\/p>\n
“Well, it’s going to be her name from now on !! <\/i>” Ben replied laughing.<\/p>\n
Anyways,<\/p>\n
I returned to our table at that point,<\/p>\n
Having satisfied my amusement needs with the conversation,<\/p>\n
While also …<\/p>\n
Not wanting not to wear out my welcome.<\/p>\n
I enjoyed the rest of the concert,<\/p>\n
And Ben tossed me a little small talk here and there,<\/p>\n
Even making it a point to say adios when the two of them left.<\/p>\n
All in all …<\/p>\n
I had a blast at the concert,<\/p>\n
Hanging with my cousins.<\/p>\n
I really appreciated the invite.<\/p>\n
And as far as the final ratings go:<\/p>\n
Hazen Street – 6 out of 10.<\/p>\n
Sum 41 – 5 our of 10.<\/p>\n
Good Charlotte – 7 out of 10.<\/p>\n
Thumbs up to all three in a small, fun viewing setting.<\/p>\n
Oh yeah,<\/p>\n
And I will admit …<\/p>\n
Despite my preference for baseball players,<\/p>\n
And even though both boys were extremely kute …<\/p>\n
After considering their personalities and jibe when up close,<\/p>\n
The cowboy was the most attractive of the two. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(Me with my cousins Marsha and Faye. Photog credits to Marsha’s boyfriend Dan.) Yeah … you read it correctly, Good Charlotte and Sum 41. Good Charlotte, whose adoring fans have an average age of 16. Sum 41, whose drunk Canadian fans have an average age of 13. Obviously, I lapped the average age of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":141,"label":"Movie Reviews"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Amy","author_link":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/author\/amy\/"},"comment_info":10,"category_info":[{"term_id":141,"name":"Movie Reviews","slug":"movie-reviews","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":145,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":10,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":141,"category_count":10,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Movie Reviews","category_nicename":"movie-reviews","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}