Eagles Tribute

This past Saturday, Liz and I went as guests of Laura and Ed, over to the Woodstock, Illinois, Opera House where we saw a really good Eagles Tribute Band, Heartache Tonight.

Before that, we had dinner at the very crowded Angelo's Family restaurant, across the street from the Opera House. This place was originally supposed to be the site of the Tip Top Cafe where a lot of the action in the movie "Groundhog Day" took place, but it ended up being filmed in a vacant building across the square, which is now open as a Greek restaurant, but is plaqued outside as a movie site.

We had seats in the balcony and any seat in the place is a good one. A local bluegrass band, True Blue, opened with a couple songs.

A recorded message came on about the whole Tribute Series (Fleetwood Mac next Saturday and Johnny Cash after that) saying that even the Chicago Symphonic Orchestra is a Tribute band. After all Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart and others have been dead for quite a few years. Plus, groups age and can no longer play like they originally did. Made sense as I have never thought about it like that.

Heartache Tonight, named after an Eagles song, consists of six musicians who have a long list of band credits among them and are extremely talented. Not only are they musically tight, but they have the vocals down as well. If you closed your eyes, you were at an actual Eagles concert, it was that good.

They opened with "Heartache Tonight" of course and then proceeded to play many of the Eagles hits. Every so often they also played one of the solo efforts. The last song was at 11 and then there was the encore song, so I was bit tired.

Well worth Seeing If You Get the Chance. --RoadDog


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