My legs were a little tired from the day's long (17 mile) hike off Blacktail Mountain. While the crowd was a good size, fortunately it wasn't too long before someone left and I was able to sit down on a bench.
The band was loud and it was the older people who were leaving early.
Next to me on the bench, at the left end, was a little old lady. She looked to be in her 70s. Kids attend these concerts and do a lot of running around. It wasn't long after I sat down that several little girls about 4 or 5 years old or so ran by. The little old lady put her leg out and tripped the first girl surprising her - and me. The little girl had a surprised look when she got up, then she ran off. The little old lady then told me that was the tenth time they ran past and she was tired of it.
Okay... I guess "little old nice lady" is not how one would describe her.
Later she remarked to me how loud the band was, and how it was driving the old people away. She said the band's style had changed. She remembered them playing more of a honky tonk style of blues in the past. Their sound now was more of a power blues, a mixture of Chicago blues and other styles.
The first half of the concert was decent, but unremarkable. But after the intermission they came out and played their "A" game. They were very good and were really rocking the blues.
Later in the concert the little old lady said that Smokey Robinson was playing in Sandpoint, Idaho soon and the tickets were $59, which she thought was too expensive. I said it may be because he was playing at a festival and that was the festival price. But she said no, that price was just for his concert at the festival.
She then asked if I was going to attend the annual blues concert/fund raiser this Saturday in Somers, MT. She mentioned she had seen the main act several times in the past and liked her the first time, and was unimpressed the second time. She had hopes for her performance at this concert. She also talked about how she liked Zydeco music.
Shouldn't she be listening to Laurence Welk or something? And... is grandma hitting on me for a date?! Yikes!
No, I have hiking plans and hadn't planned on attending the concert.
Later the fellow at the other end of the bench left and I moved to that end. Not to get away from grandma, but because the person running the soundboard spent much of the time standing up and this blocked my view of half the band. Of course he didn't eat during intermission,but after the intermission was over. To eat he had to move over a bit to reach his food on the table, and again he blocked my view. *grrrr*
The strange guy I seen dance at the previous concerts was here again this night. He wore a lavender shirt and had his leather motorcycle chaps on. No bandannas on his head but he had a red one tucked in my back pants pocket and had a blue one around his neck. He asked several women to dance but couldn't quite get a decent routine going with any of the women.
Usually the kids monopolize the dance floor but not this night. A half dozen women danced off to the left side front. They wanted to shake their 'groove thing'. A guy danced awkwardly a few times with them but he seemed kind of creepy to me. And maybe to the women also as several times another woman cut in on him when he started to concentrate on a single woman. He had 'desperation' written all over him.
For one dance there were a number of couples dancing. Thankfully the men didn't dance long as they couldn't dance and embarrassed all men everywhere. One guy with camera tried taking a picture of his partner while dancing. He was such a bad dancer to begin with, his picture taking didn't hurt his dancing style.
Later a woman with green hair showed up. She and her friend were odd. So the men weren't the only odd people dancing at the concert.
I didn't see anyone I knew though the next day Gary said he was there, but sitting in a different location due to all the people there preventing him from getting his usual location. And I am terrible in picking people out of the crowd.
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