she’s only 17…at the state
I was listening to Sirius (HairNation) on the way home from dinner tonight (PF Changs at Westshore Mall - yum!) and heard that Winger is doing tour dates in Florida this week. The band will be in St. Pete at the State Theater on Sunday, 2/11 at 7pm. Tickets can be yours on Ticketmaster for $14.99 to $18.00 plus fees. I’m just the right age to remember Winger…they were huge when I was in middle school and high school. Who could forget “Easy Come Easy Go”? “Seventeen”?
The State is a neat place to see your old rock idols too - it’s a small enough club that you can really enjoy the show. We were lucky enough to see Warren Zevon there several years ago, and Jill Sobule (she had the song “I Kissed A Girl” make it big in the 90’s) appeared that night as well. This was before Warren Zevon was diagnosed with inoperable mesothelioma, so we never imagined it would be our only chance to see him. But what a night it was - small venue, great songs…and he and Jill did a duet of “Up Where We Belong”, which was made famous by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes in “An Officer & A Gentleman”. It was an amazing night.
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[…] I just blogged about Winger appearing locally on my other blog, and ended up going off on a tangent about Warren Zevon. I knew he got sick and died, but I didn’t know it was due to inoperable mesothelioma. That’s a form of cancer usually caused by exposure to asbestos - NOT smoking. Zevon had a doctor phobia and it prevented him from getting it checked out, aka EARLY detection. Additionally, he chose not to fight the cancer. I never realized that. It’s kind of sad. […]
I’m jealous again. I love Jill Sobule and even have the cd with “I kissed a girl”. I was also a fan of her supermodel off of the “Clueless” soundtrack (a really good cd)