Herb Alpert, Again

 

Travalon and I had a very lazy morning, then I had to go do an audit for the local because I'm a trustee. The other trustee has done them before, so she knew what to do, and so it only took an hour. Then Travalon and I went to evening Mass before going to the Orpheum to see Herb Alpert.

Longtime readers may remember that we saw Herb Alpert almost exactly three years ago. We had to go down to Chicago for that, but this time he came to town with the Tijuana Brass, and Travalon got "free" tickets with the credit from the time he tried to get Weird Al Yankovic tickets and the seller never sent them to him. Then just last week the Dairyman's Daughter asked if we like him, because two friends of hers had tickets and couldn't go. I said yes, we are such big fans that we already had tickets, but it turns out Rich and another regular from the Night Prayer group really wanted to go. We didn't go with them, but we did run into them there. 

So now he's 91, but he's still going strong. He's very funny, and he still plays the trumpet beautifully. He started with one of Travalon's favorites, "The Lonely Bull," and then he asked people to shout out what song from Whipped Cream and Other Delights they wanted to hear, and both Travalon and the guy on the other side of me shouted, "Taste of Honey!" They did play that, and they did a long jam on "Rise," which was my gateway drug to Herb Albert because I was too young to encounter him in his heyday, but that song was big in the early 80's when I was a tween, and I just loved it. Still love it, especially the version they did tonight. We all clapped on the appropriate beat. They did most of his hits, and some other songs (like "Love Potion #9") that I had not heard him cover before, and then during the encore they played another favorite of mine, "Tijuana Taxi." I just love the horn at the end! Afterwards we went to our old church to use the restroom, and when I was talking to Rich about how cool it is that a nerdy Jewish kid could grow up to be a sex symbol, own a recording label, and still be going strong in his nineties, some guy came out of the bathroom and said, "Wasn't that a great show?" I have no idea who he is, but to get into our church at night he must have had a key, so he must have been some sort of parishioner.

Here are the screenshots from the final video Travalon made on our ten-train day. He made this one with his cell phone, but he held it horizontally, so it doesn't have those weird black patches on either side.

I am finally caught up on train video screenshots, that I know of. I'm sure there will be more in the future.

And once again, I have to do a little DuoLingo bragging:

I only spent about an hour and a half doing it this morning. Now it's time for my night session.

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Happy Birthday to Jilly Moose!

 

First of all, Happy Birthday to Jilly Moose! I don't actually have anything else to say, having been at home sick all day, so here are some more screenshots of train graffiti from Travalon's videos.

That's enough screenshots for one post, and this is all from the same train as the last post! Now I only have one minute of video left to check, but a minute can contain a lot of graffiti at the speeds these trains are going at. 

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Halfway to St. Patrick's Day Hoolie

 

Today I worked on campus and met with the president of the Shamrock Club over our coffee break so that we could discuss my possibly joining the board, then on my afternoon break I walked with Hardingfele. She did break her toe, but she's doing better now. Then after work I drove to the Village Green Tavern to join the Shamrock Club for the Halfway to St. Patrick's Day Hoolie, which was a lot of fun. The table was totally packed, so four of us ladies sat at a booth until Travalon joined us, then they left me to sit with him alone, but people did keep popping by to talk to us. They are all such fun people!

Here are more screen shots of the first train we saw at Von Loppy's. Even though I posted a number of the photos already on a previous post, there are still so many photos that I can't put all of them from one train on this post. Travalon took these with his cell phone, and you can see how clear they are even though the train is going so fast, so the phone is better at train videos than his good camera. Sorry about the black around the edges; he took these vertically, and I don't know how to get rid of those yet. I'm still learning when it comes to screenshots.

I just have to add these two amazing photos someone took in the Horicon rail yard.

Are those not incredible? I've seen some Alien tags before, but nothing this elaborate.

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