Judas Priest or Forklift Training
Last night was the long anticipated Judas Priest concert here in the 'Peg. Jay and I, who were both sick, attended the festivities and each walked away with the same impression. Sonically, the show was amazing, with the band and Halford sounding awesome... Visually, the show was lacking. I think that all stemmed from Rob Halford being strangely immobile and feeble. He was having problems walking around the stage, needed a cane type thing to hold him up for some songs, was hunched over most of the time, was constantly going to the back (after each song and during solos) for what I presume was oxygen, and was generally too rickety to be energetic. He seemed to have the old man bent neck thing going on, as when looking up, his entire upper body would lift with his head. We think that he must have hurt himself, because Jay had a friend who saw Priest last year and insists that Halford was running around like crazy then. I doubt his body could deteriorate that much in a year... Could it??? Anyway, the show was pretty good apart from the sad sight that was the former metal god. The opener, Anthrax, was one of the better openers I've seen, in as far as they had the crowd rocking despite their lame ass material. Did I mention that I am not an Anthrax fan? I guess if you like standard thrash metal, you could do worse than them, but if you don't like that sort of thing, I wouldn't see why you would want to bother with that band.
I had forklift certification today. It was a bunch of safety videos, a written test, and a practical obstacle course type thing. While I passed, I have no intention of driving one of those things. They are all weird moving and too "floaty." It definitely made getting back into my car an experience, as I had to re-adjust to the normal way cars handle.
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