Concert Time Part 2

 Hello friends!

A couple posts ago, I mentioned that I went to see Weird Al Yankovic in Toronto and was planning on seeing Steven Page here in Peterborough when he played Musicfest on the Saturday. 

I ended up going. I didn't think about it at all. I didn't psych myself out beforehand. I knew it would be busy, but that generally happens when you have a free concert series in the middle of town. 

Musicfest, by the way, is one of the longest running free concert series in Ontario. It began in 1987 and has run every summer. Acts such as Carly Rae Jepsen, Crash Test Dummies, Our Lady Peace, Tom Cochrane, Kiefer Sutherland, Randy Backman, Kim Mitchell, and (one of my favourites) Arrogant Worms have performed at the venue. 

It was called the Festival of Lights, with fireworks after the concerts, then illuminated boats in the water. It was rebranded to Musicfest and they do fireworks on July 1.

Well, Saturday was Steven Page. He performed some early BNL favourites that he wrote such as Enid, Brian Wilson, Break Your Heart, If I Had $1000000 (with Tom Green) as well as some solo stuff. 

I enjoyed listening to the music. I was a little further back, as with my wheelchair I would prefer to stay on the brick path they have as opposed to going on the grass. 

The photos turned out better than I thought they did, honestly.. 

The concerts are held at Del Crary Park, downtown Peterborough. It's situated on Little Lake. 

I did take a couple videos but I don't think I can post them here unless I upload them to YouTube. Besides, since they were partial songs, I'm not too worried about showing them.. 

I think the only other concert I may want to see is Kim Mitchell, though truthfully, there are only really two songs of his I know. Patio Lanterns and Go for a Soda. 

Jim Clancy

 Hello Friends!

Today I want to post about longtime Blue Jays Jim Clancy.

He sadly passed away yesterday at the age of 69. He pitched for the Jays from 1977-1988. He then played for Houston and Atlanta before retiring. 

He was the first pitcher for the Jays to 100 victories. 

I never got to see him pitch but Clancy and Dave Stieb were the anchors of the 80s pitching staffs. 

Rest in peace, Jim. 

Concert Time

 Hello Friends!

I know this is a card blog, but it's also my card blog so if I want to show pictures of the concert I went to yesterday I will. 😉

So, the concert was Weird Al Yankovic in Toronto. 

I don't know why but almost every time I'm in T.O, I need to take a picture of the CN Tower. Incidentally, the skies were a little threatening at the time leading to the concert. Some areas were darker. 

The concert was at Budweiser Stage, an ampitheatre with a partial canopy for the more expensive seats. One section of other seats open to the skies, and then lawn seating. It was not too bad. 

Had to show the tour promo lol

The opening act was Puddles Pity Party. He was ok, but I was bored. Guy's not my thing.. 

The promo video for the tour.. It was kinda funny. Alzilla!

I don't smile in my pictures as you can see. I was enjoying myself though. I did see a couple people I knew. My former neighbour at my old address was also there, so we met up. My best friend from back home also found me and came to say Hi. That shocked the crap out of me. 

Finally the Man, the Myth, the Legend.. The Weird! Al Yankovic. 

After performing Tacky on his way into the stage and throwing a pie into Puddles Pity Party's face.. 

He also came out and said this was the end of his "Grueling Canadian portion" of the tour.. Toronto was the only stop on the tour in Canada.. lol 

The first song.. I have no clue what it was but it was different. 

A scene from Weird while they were doing a costume change. 

Dare to be Stupid!!!!

Smells Like Nirvana!!

Part of the medley of parodies he's done. 

Eat It!

Canadian Idiot. 

Fat!

Milo Murphy's Law theme. 

White and Nerdy!

Word Crimes

Stop Forwarding that Crap to Me

Amish Paradise!

It was an amazing concert. I absolutely enjoyed myself. I admit I was having a lot of anxiety about going. If I was left to going on my own, I wouldn't have ended up going and missed out on borh friends and on an amazing concert. 

Also, it did spit a few times. Nothing major. It did start drizzling as I was leaving Budweiser Stage to get back to the GO train to get back to Peterborough. 

By time we got home, it was 2:30 am. By time I fell asleep, it was 5am.. I'm tired.. I'm still recovering from overstimulation from the day yesterday and I'm planning on subjecting myself to more overstimulation on Saturday by seeing Steven Page at Del Crary Park in Peterborough as part of Musicfest. 

Heritage Can be Strange

Hello Friends! It's July 3, so first I want to say Early Happy 'Murica Day to my friends south of the border. 

I recently went to Shopper's Drug Mart (think Walgreen's, CVS, etc) and saw some packs of Heritage hanging in the sports cards section. Generally there's football, basketball, and hockey. Sometimes I luck out and a few stray packs of baseball show up 

I saw the packs and decided to get one. I generally like the idea of Heritage and Archives, but I feel one of them is redundant. Really the only difference is Heritage also pays homage to cultural events in inserts.  

The pictures are a little wonky because I was holding the cards to my phone camera. 

Strikeout leaders in the NL were pretty close, weren't they?

Not to be confused with the Max Muncy playing for Oaklamento. Saw he had a pretty horrific injury last night. 

The surprise of the pack. I never go into opening packs thinking I'll get anything. Generally if I get a Jay or a Canadian I'm happy. Tony is probably the biggest auto pull I've had.. Of course, I'll be passing this on to a Twins collector who would appreciate it more than I can.. 

When I first heard his name, I was wondering if it was like Doug Dascenzo or not.. Turns out not. 

All time all stars. Interesting way to get a Mel Ott.. 

I did get a Jay in the pack. Though it was the odd chromified version of the cards. I think a set paying tribute to the older designs doesn't need modern bells and whistles like chrome.. But what do I know? I'm just a collector.. 

Other cards in the pack were 

Robert Suarez - Padres

Lucas Erceg - Royals

Masataka Yoshida - Red Sox

Porter Hodge - Cubs

Heliot Ramos - Giants

Dansby Swanson - Cubs

Blake Snell - Dodgers

Jack Flaherty - Dodgers

Isaac Paredes - Astros

Victor Robles - Mariners

Kerry Carpenter - Tigers

Reynoldo Lopez - Braves

Ian Happ - Cubs

Because it was the first pack I opened of the product, I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I do like the cards, it's just whether or not I want to work on another set..