The Weird Al Experience

Several years ago, Weird Al came to the Grand Casino’s Pavilion in Gulfport (now destroyed by Katrina). I was lucky enough to get some free tickets to his show since I worked on many of the casino’s commercials. The tickets turned out to be much better than I could have ever expected, six rows back dead center! I’m not much of a party animal (hard to believe, eh?), but what a great concert! Here is a pic of Al wrapping up his opening number with a big leap off of some speakers, his hair flying, while he tears it up on his accordian!

As if the concert wasn’t enough, I was very fortunate to meet Al backstage! He was very friendly and miraculously composed (what a workout!). The other two with me are Virginia Smith and Jon Ratliff. Jon and I tried to wear as close to Weird-Al-style shirts as we could! I even wore my checkerboard Vans shoes!