You know you are getting old when your first show in years at the Filmore in San Francisco happens to be a children’s concert and you end up having an even better time than your kid. We saw Ralph Covert (of “Ralph’s World”:http://www.ralphsworld.com and the Chicago Band the Bad Examples) play this morning with his band and they were really terrific. If you know his music (and if you happen to have little kids, you probably do), it’s even better live. The venue was filled with plenty of “Grups”:http://sotto.org/2006/05/04/grups_of_new_york/, myself included, and that added to the strange infectious fun. All I can say is that it was way more fun than my last concert, which was a sober viewing of the Chemical Brothers and the Orb at the Riviera in Chicago.
After the show, we got to meet Ralph, get his autograph, mention that we were transplanted Chicagoans and took a picture or two. He was incredibly nice to us and with everyone he met and we were glad to have gone all the way to the city so early on a Sunday morning. We’re already looking forward to when he’ll be back later in the Spring.
