Hotel California
We have some good friends, Dick and
Connie Kingsbury, that live about 3.5 miles from us on
Pillar Point. They have wintered in Winter Haven
for the past three years. We socialize quite a bit
with them at home and get together a few times in the
winter in Florida. On Wednesday, February 24, we
drove down to Winter Haven, had dinner with them and
then participated in a trivia contest that we used to go
to with them in 2015 when we stayed in Winter Haven.
We stayed at their place that night and
the next afternoon, we all went into Lakeland where we
had dinner and then attended a Hotel California concert.
Hotel California is an Eagles tribute band. We saw
them several years ago in Watertown. Although they
have the same name, we think the personnel has changed.
It wasn't the
Eagles, but they did a good job on the songs. In
addition, they were quite impressive instrumentalists.
The drummer and bass player played only those
instruments, but the bassist was a really good singer.
The primary singer played acoustic guitar and keyboard.
The other two guitarists were both lead players.
One of them also played mandolin and harmonica and the
other one played banjo and pedal steel guitar. All
and all it was a good show.
The warm-up band was a local group from
Sebring, Florida. They got off to a rocky start
because the lead singer forgot the words twice to the
opening song. After that, they were actually quite
good. The drummer, bassist and keyboard player
were decent. The lead guitarist was also the lead
singer and he was actually quite good. He handled
the guitar very well and had an exceptional voice.
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