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Birthday: September 4
Gender: Male
Status: Married
Religion: Agnostic
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Idaho
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Homedale High School, Boise State University
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Idaho Dept. of Labor
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Homedale Idaho, Boise Idaho, and many places in between during my navy time.
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I yam what I yam. Married for too long. 2 wonderful tall handsome sons.

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State Fair

My 2 sons, 17 and 15 years old, wanted to go to the Western Idaho State Fair tonight.  Foreigner was headlining at the fair and they both wanted to see the group, the three of us went.

Now I got to thinking back to when I was 17.  I was 17 years old in 1972.  My father would have been 57 years old. 

My son is 17 this year, and I am 54, so there is a real similarity in ages to my situation with my father.  I remember going to the fair when I was 17.  Exact same fair, same site, almost all the same venues.  I couldn't tell you if anyone was headlining at the fair that year.  I am sure a Google search might be able to tell me if there were any bands there.  However, I don't think my father would have ever gone to a concert with me at the fair or anywhere else for that matter.

Now to be generationally fair (and you will have to forgive my lack of knowledge of bands or groups from the 1940's) to go to a similar concert as we went to tonight, the group would have to have been like Glenn Miller.  As far as I know, my dad never even listened to music.  He wouldn't have taken me to see a concert like that if I asked him to, even if it was across the street. 

The whole situation tonight has  just got me to thinking how things change.  All three of us enjoyed the concert.  I saw people there from the age of 2 up into their 70's.  The people who would have been most in line with Foreigner's music would have to be 48 to 60.  Foreigner's fame was mostly mid 1970's into the 1980's.  They still packed the grandstand at the Western Idaho fair.  I don't know how they would do in a larger venue. 

How odd that my sons, who are exposed to 60's and 70's music all the time, would want to see a rock and roll group from that time frame.  I listen to rock music at home all the time, my father never even turned on a radio.

The music was excellent, the band put on a great show.  Just being there almost makes me feel like I upset the space/time continuum......my father hopefully rolled over in his grave and thought, I wish I would have taken Chuck to things like that. 

If he had, I think we would have been much closer.  I am glad that I can say that I am closer with my 2 sons.

Added: August 26, 2009
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