You must be desperate rainydayperson if you want to hear stories about going to GL concerts.
For a number of years (8?), my wife and I went up to Toronto for the Massey Hall concerts. Most were in the spring of the year but we went to a couple that were in the fall also.
I live in Cleveland, which by air to Toronto is about 45 minutes over Lake Erie, but to drive around the lake by car, it takes about six hours.
It always seemed to me that there was "electric" in the air the day of the concerts.
My wife and I usually spent the day shopping and as the concert grew close we ended up at a place called the "Saloon" which is across the street from Massey Hall. It is a nicer place than the name suggests. Our ritual was that my wife would have a glass of wine and I would have a shot of rye. Believe it or not, for about five years we had the same waiter. After the first time we ordered, the waiter walked back to the bar, and in a heavy "Brittish" accent yelled out to the bartender, "a glass of wine for the lady, and a shot of rye for the gentleman!" My wife and I thought that was the greatest thing. I found out that night that rye tastes like jet fuel, but the following years to come we ordered the same thing, just to hear this waiter cry out his chant.
Cheap cough syrup tastes better than rye, but I ordered it every year.
That was our ritual for the Massey concerts. Two "ugly" Americans getting a charge out of a waiter with a Brittish accent.
Also, rainydayperson, check out my posts under "Hi Lites & Lo Lites Of GL Concerts".
There are some mentions of pre concert things in there too.
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