My wife says: " I hope that we don't get caught next to somebody loud and obnoxious." "Don't worry" I say." everyone here is old like us,,,they all just want to sit down."

We are at a concert and it is full of old hippies. Women wearing their daughters mini skirts and 60 plus year old men in tank tops, earrings and Born to be Wild tattoo's.

We find our way to our nearly front row seats. I usually like to sit on the aisle but we are in a few seats wondering who will be our neighbors. My wife's biggest fear is soon realized when very large man sits down next to her swallowing his seat and half of hers as he struggles to get comfortable in seats that were made for children under 12.

The show starts right on time. Gone are the days of sitting in the Boston Garden in a cloud of smoke for 5 hours as the band is held in a Warwick jail cell for being involved with in an altercation with a member of the local media.

From the first chord of blues guitar great Kenny Wayne Shepard our view is blocked by the overly enthusiastic middle age woman who is more interested in the the lead singer looks than any of the music as she screams at him every time the revolving stage brings the band in front of us.

The band is lost ...they cant get off the stage because it revolves and since it is in the middle of what is a huge tent with seats , there is no back stage. They hurry, following a confused old roadie with a gray beard and ponytail, up the stairs past us. Sure enough, the middle aged teenager sitting in front of us nearly leaps into the aisle after one of her idols in the band. Her husband just sits and cringes...heh ....its her night out. That is what most us of look like. Old hippies who have been beaten down by jobs, kids, mortgages. etc and yet have a little wildness still inside that the old rock n' roll seems to feed whenever we hear it. Either in the car on some classic rock station that we lip sync to on the way to work in traffic or the time we can cut loose at a concert with out the kids watching and rolling their eyes.

I know its only rock n' roll but I like it.