My Maiden Voyage
If I could do it all over again, I would’ve been a musician. Perhaps a struggling musician, perhaps a world famous musician, but I would’ve been a musician. I love music, all kinds of music. If you check out my collection of CDs, you will see everything from Billie Holiday to Eminem, Bryan Adams to Ryan Adams. I also LOVE going to concerts. Something about it being live and unpredictable. In my 43 years, I have been incredibly fortunate to see nearly every band I wanted to see. Even acts I don’t know much about. As a 16-year old, my friend Phil and I paid $5 each to sit at the top of the Hollywood Bowl to see B.B. King and Ray Charles. Have you ever been to the top of the Hollywood Bowl? No wonder those seats were $5. But hey, we can tell our grandkids we saw B.B. King and Ray Charles in concert. We couldn’t hear ‘em, but we saw them. Barely. A couple of years ago I took my wife to go see Metallica, a great concert band. My wife is not much of a music person, although she ...