Sweatpants Tent's blog: "Random Thoughts"

So...my friend Heather and I headed out to Edgefield for Billy Idol.  I knew going in that we would be wading into a sea of mullets and the best aging rocker crowd that Portland had to offer.  Thankfully I was not to be dissapointed.  But first...the concert.  Billy came out blasting with Cradle of Love followed by Flesh for Fantasy, White Wedding (started acoustic and went electric) then hit To Be a Lover before breaking out the new stuff like John Wayne.  At the "solo break" the best LIVING guitarist out there Steve Stevens put on a F'ing SHOW.  He played a spanish solo that gave me the shivers and then busted into Led Zeppelin's Over The Hills and Far Away.  Of course once he hit Rebel Yell the crowd went nuts.  He encored with Hot in the City and Mony Mony.  My ONLY complaint about the concert was that he blazed though the concert...not as much crowd interaction as I would have liked.  But I will say this now and hear me clear....there is no better guitarist out there then Steve Stevens.  Not Eddie Van Halen...the only one I think that could have given him a run for his money...was Randy Rhodes.  But we'll never know.  OK.  NOW to the sea of humanity.  Sweet jesus.  On the way in we saw a skunk haired chubby girl in a WAAAAAAY too short skirt....a pink tiger skirt.  I saw rat tail mullets...I saw mini truck mullets...I saw clothing I haven't seen since the Whitesnake videos on 1986....it was a cluster.  One woman...we'll call her 'Pinky" cause she was wearing pink terry cloth shorts and a bikini top that barely contained her boobs.  I use the term boobs loosely because she looked like she was smuggling 2 lemons in tube socks (get the visual)  and she was shaking that well over 50 ass in her significant others face in some kind of lap/face dance.  There was the woman in front of us... her gross rat tail went down to her butt crack...which I am sure she is tickling herself with at this minute.  It was everything I expected it to be and so much worse.  Including the guy in the tank top and hair suit.  Yes it will be a concert to remember for a long time.  I only wish I would have been in the VIP area.