You may have noticed that I skipped a post on Friday. I apologize for that. I didn’t have time to get a prefabricated post scheduled for Friday, and I went to New York with my family for the day. I tried to get some Christmas shopping done, but didn’t really see anything that suited the bill for the presents still remaining on my list.
I did try to argue in favor of getting tickets for Rock of Ages when we passed through Times Square, but by that point everybody else was tired out and didn’t want to go to a show. (We’d already walked pretty far by that point.) We ended up eating Thai food for dinner and counting the taxis with signs for musicals with a Bon Jovi connection. Seriously, it’s like every other taxi in Manhattan has a sign for either Memphis or Rock of Ages on it.
It wasn’t until we were walking past the big tree in Rockefeller Center that I realized that I’d managed to miss Bon Jovi’s Saturday Night Live appearance by one day. If I’d been paying attention when we scheduled the trip, I could have pushed it to Saturday instead and tried for standby tickets for SNL. (I understand that you have to get there pretty early to get those, if they’re available, though. I’ve never tried.)
Besides, after actually watching it on Saturday, I’m actually glad that I didn’t manage to get tickets. The opening monologue was so boring that I managed to fall asleep on the couch about 30 seconds into it Granted, I was tired, but still. Falling asleep that early on a Saturday night is positively embarrassing. The good part about that was that I missed most of the actual sketches, and my finely honed Spidey Sense woke me up the minute Bon Jovi started playing.
While the opening monologue (and evidently the rest of it, according to my friends who did manage to stay awake) was evidently pretty bad, Jon and the boys did a good job. First, it’s good to hear a song from The Circle other than ‘We Weren’t Born to Follow’ getting some exercise. Also, ‘Superman Tonight’ is one of the better tracks on the CD. I think it’ll do the sales of the disc some good if they get some exposure for some of the other songs.
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Tags: Bon Jovi, David Bryan, Rock of Ages, TV