Man, just a few more days before President-Elect Omaha’s inauguration. Even up here in Canada, I will confess to being a little bit excited to watch all the pomp and circumstance that typically follows a new president’s swearing in ceremony. I’ll bet people in Nebraska are just as excited, seeing as how he shares a name with one of their major cities.

Go, Omaha!!!

Well, the economy is certainly taking on a toll on the concert calendar here in the Such Is Life household. We’ve only got two shows lined up to see so far this year, both quite a ways away yet. By now, we’ve typically already been to two or three, so the year is certainly starting off slowly.

However, in addition to less concerts being announced, there are also more acts returning to town that we have already seen, so that reduces our interest as well.

Here’s a list of shows just coming to The Saddledome, which we are passing on for one reason or another:

1) Brad Paisley – for Pete’s sake, we just saw him last year, and the show was terrific. Can’t justify rushing back so soon for another helping of paisley, unless we were Mrs. & Mrs. Prince.
2) Lil’ Wayne – of all the wide and diverse musical genres that we enjoy, rap and hippity-hop is so far down the list we’d need a ladder to find it down in the abyss. Plus, we are waiting for Big Wayne…
3) Nickelback – we still haven’t seen Canada’s most successful rock act, tour monsters worldwide. For all the international success they enjoy, and for that matter the enjoyment we get from listening to their music, for some odd reason we have ignored their tours. Perhaps we need to re-examine our patriotism…
4) Stars On Ice – Ha! It is to laugh…
5) Il Divo – Already attended one of their shows, and it was a concert highlight. You can’t recreate the magic again. Unless maybe you’re David Copperfield, who incidentally we have seen live.
6) Taylor Swift – Country music’s fastest-rising cross-over juggernaut is certainly a delight to see live, which we did last year. So, again, we are swiftly passing on this concert. Sorry.
7) Kenny Chesney – despite being country music fans, the leading concert draw of the past three or four years fails to interest us. Maybe it’s because he looks like a de-shelled turtle without his cowboy hat. Maybe it’s because we are showing solidarity to his ex, Renee Zellwegger. For whatever reason, this is another pass for us.

There you have it. We will just to be patient, I suppose. If we wait, they will come.

[Although, there was one major concert announcement in the paper yesterday, which I am dragging my heels on bringing to Mrs. That Dan Guy’s attention. She (crazy as a March hare) thinks we see too many shows as it is.

However, this is one of the few super-groups of the 70’s and 80’s, touring apparently with much of their original line-up, which is the only reason that we HAVE to see them. I will figure out some way to frame this, so that she will be eager to snap up tickets when they come on sale, later this month (landmark birthday, patience with respect to attaining Mac, handsome devil, benevolent personality, makes the most incredible Kraft Dinner you’ve ever tasted…)]

Till then,

Chow for now!!