After a good steak dinner at Malone’s Steakhouse in Lexington at Hamburg. We proceeded to our hotel. We decided to stay at the Hyatt because it is connected to Rupp Arena which was the site of the Eagles Concert.
We checked in to our rooms and hurried to Rupp. The concert was a trip in time for me, it carried me back to the summer of 1975.
That was the summer before my senior year of high school. My friends Jack, Tommy and I loaded up in Jack’s car and went to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina for a week. The drive to the beach took about eight hours and we had a brand new Eagles eight track tape.
Back to 2015. The concert was really good, in that the band walked you through its history. It starts with Don Henley and Glen Frey walking on stage and sitting on stools playing acoustic guitars the song “Saturday Night”. They then talk about the start of the band and meeting Bernie Leadon at that point he walks on stage and the three perform “Train Leaves Here This Morning”. When the three start playing “Peaceful Easy Feeling” Timothy B Schmit walks on to stage and joins them.
After the song Henley moves the drums and as the group starts “Witchy Woman” Joe Walsh walks onto stage. The group then takes you through a history of their music.
Besides hearing the songs again the one thing I really enjoyed was seeing Joe Walsh and hearing him play the guitar. When Don Frey joined him it just does not get any better.
It was a nice evening spent with good music and good friends. My wife’s sisters and their husbands went the concert with us.
