ROCK AND ROLL!

Juan-Les-Pins, which is next to/part of (?) Antibes does a Jazz Concert every summer and after that there are various musical concerts at the amphitheater. It is not a permanent structure, but one they put up in a plaza so that the seating faces out onto the Med. It holds about 2000 seated and standing, and on a nice summer evening it is a great place for a concert.

Well, the other day I saw a poster for Le Scorpions in concert on Thursday, July 30th. But when I went to the tourist office to check out the tickets, the cheapest were 44Euros, which was a bit more than I wanted to spend. So the good lady and I decide that we would go down to the park next to the plaza and bring a picnic and listen to the music.

So Thursday rolls around. While I am at work, this lady at the office (a fellow American) comes in and she has 2 tickets to the show that someone gave to her. She can't go so she is asking if anyone else (all Brits) wants the tickets. "Who?, the Scorpions?, What?" are the responses. So I score 2 tickets to the show. And it turns out the 44Euro tickets are in the pit, while the tickets I got are for the old people who want to sit down for the show. Yes, I am one of them, I am too old for that standing at a concert stuff.
It's only Rock and Roll, but I like it!



Well, let me tell you Le Scorpions still rock. Check out the video below. To be fair, I never saw them in concert when I was younger, although I knew a lot of their music. They played for a solid hour-and-a-half and they have an excellent stage show. For a bunch of older guys (notice the chosen adjective), they really banged the show out, and 2 encores. I asked the guys next to use if the Scorpions were popular in France and the answer was "Oui!". Not "oui", but "Oui!" (like you are saying WHEEEE, but drop in down an octave".

Most of the people we were sitting with were in my age range, so I guess that does mean I am one of those "old people who want to sit down..." The pit had mostly younger people and to be honest, they looked liked the crowd at an American concert in the 80's/90's.

Rock and Roll dude! Oui!

The concessions sold beer and wine (it is France), and sandwiches (it is a French thing). But the songs were all in English (the irony, a German band, in concert in France, singing songs in English). The toilet situation, portapotties, were SO much better than when we went to Marseilles. No fights that I saw; lots of gendarmes and paramedics on hand. When we were going into the venue, they make you pitch the caps to your water bottles. We thought it was because people throw them at the band or something. But during the show, Klaus threw something like 50 drumsticks out to the fans, which are going to hurt more than plastic bottle caps if they get thrown back.