In the city of Maple Valley, on the shores of Lake Wilderness our story takes place. During the months of summer a series of concerts is hosted by the city and is a place where people with nothing better to do gather to pass away the evening. Thursday August 12th was one of those days. My mother prepared a picnic lunch and we set off an hour early to get a good spot (parking that is, one that is close enough to the venue so we don't have to walk half a mile but also in a convenient get away spot in case the concert is lame). Father met us there on his way home from work. The three of us ate our pan-fried chicken as we watched the band set up.
The name of the band was 'Magic Bus' complete with its own set of gogo-girls, Shauna and Andrea. The youngest member of the band was most likely in his mid-fifties or so. He claimed to be in another band that would be playing in Detroit the next day. I had never heard of them and so I must assume it is another all senior citizen band. I wonder if they were successful enough to have their own gogo-girls. The audience consisted of retirees and young families, non of which were prepared to rock. It was quite amusing to see the band members try to get reactions out of them. About twenty minutes into to concert I had an interesting realization: the difference between flamers and rockers is in the way they take of their hair, everything else is the same. Both wear rainbow T-shirts; both wear girl jeans. They are both flamboyant in manner of speech and slightly annoying. Both have an unusual attachment to headband. Really the only difference is that flamers will use ten different hair products and rockers will use a bar of soap.
Shortly after that we made our escape; which was fairly noticeable. We were sitting in the middle of the hill, and as we made our exit, the rocker with a gig in Detroit was like "don't leave"; maybe some other people had the same sense that we did, but I like to think he was talking just to us. Besides 'So You Think You Can Dance' was about to start and they were going to announce the winner.
