<p>I’m chuckling over an email I got today offering a hefty discount on this show: “Ricky Nelson Remembered, featuring Ricky Nelson’s twin sons, Matthew and Gunnar!..Don’t miss this unique, emotionally thrilling celebration of a remarkable cultural icon!”</p>
<p>I do remember Ricky Nelson and recognize that he had a bunch of hits, but I can’t imagine anyone wanting to see his sons, in their mid-forties, perform in a tribute show (nor the promised “rare home videos”). No surprise to me that the discounts are deep. So, ye older boomers, would you go (at any price)? Is anyone that much of a Ricky Nelson fan?</p>
<p>I don’t go out much.
Maybe if it is within walking distance and there is a hope the show might begin before 9pm.
I didn’t even go see the Led Zeppelin tribute band that Jason Bonham formed, which is reportedly very good.
I can’t imagine that those who remember Rick Nelson in his heyday are interested in staying up all night. But maybe the hipsters will go.
It does look like their tribute to their dad, is actually just a part of their musical career.</p>
<p>My mother, who is 72, was a huge Ricky Nelson fan back in the day. So that should give you an idea of the age range. </p>
<p>She’s gone to tons of concerts in her life – including, in the last few years, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Billy Joel, and the Rolling Stones; we tried to go to U2 together but it didn’t work out, and we saw Prince and Bruce Springsteen together – so the idea that being that age means that she’s geriatric and incapable of staying out late and couldn’t handle anything other than chamber music is kind of silly, really. </p>
<p>emeraldkity4, the show starts at 8 at our venue, but isn’t touring in your neck of the woods, sorry! </p>
<p>The “Reviews” section of the show’s website only has comments from people working for the various venues where its played. So either the local papers weren’t interested enough to cover the event, or the desired quotes weren’t forthcoming. It all strikes me as a little sad. I’d love to be a fly on the wall at the local performance of the show and see the turnout, both the size and the demographics.</p>
<p>Here’s a nugget of info about Nelson I never knew: “In 1972, Nelson reached the Top 40 one last time with “Garden Party”, a song he wrote in disgust after a Madison Square Garden audience booed him, because, in his mind, he was playing new songs instead of just his old hits. When he performed the Rolling Stones’, “Honky Tonk Women,” he was booed off the stage. He watched the rest of the performance on a TV monitor backstage and quietly left the venue without taking a final bow for the finale.” Yikes.</p>
<p>Oh yes! That’s old news … that’s what Garden Party was written about, the Madison Square Garden show! “I said Hello, to Mary Lou, she belonged to me” – when he did sing the older songs. “Yoko brought her walrus” - John Lennon was in the audience. Yes, you can tell I’m the daughter of a RN fan :-)</p>
<p>I don’t know how I knew this about Ricky Nelson’s sons, because I don’t really pay attention to pop music today and certainly didn’t in 1990. But they did have a multi-platinum hit album in 1990 as the music group Nelson, which was on the charts for many weeks and contained a number one hit. [url=<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_the_Rain_(Nelson_album)]After”>After the Rain (Nelson album) - Wikipedia]After</a> the Rain (Nelson album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<a href=“check%20out%20the%20album%20cover”>/url</a>.</p>
<p>So perhaps some people might want to see them perform because they remember them from back in the day, as well as because they’re Ricky Nelson’s sons. I did like Ricky Nelson’s voice. He wrote some of his own songs, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame after his death. Bob Dylan actually cited him as an influence in his music. I wouldn’t go to a tribute concert, but it doesn’t surprise me that some people might.</p>
<p>To me, the interesting figure in the Nelson family is Harriet. As Harriet Hilliard, she had a nice career in Hollywood during the 1930s, including the supporting lead in a great Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movie, “Follow the Fleet.”</p>
<p>Is this show at a casino? I have neighbors who are retired who love to go to these kinds of shows. They go to the casino, gamble, have dinner and see a show. Not my thing but I’m not a gambler.</p>
<p>Yes, I remember Nelson; they were one hit wonders. I remember some African American performer good-naturedly introducing them on TV as the whitest white dudes he had ever seen.</p>
<p>I remember Ricky Nelson too, but more from the Ozzie and Harriet TV show than from his records. Once he became a singing star they often featured Ricky singing a song at the end of O&H episodes. I was a young kid then and didn’t really pay much attention to rock and roll yet.</p>
<p>Casino shows are very popular, but they are in the suburbs & beyond, and that seems like a lot of effort some weeks.
Wish I had made the effort to see Peter Frampton & Kenny Wayne Sheperd, with Mike mcCready and Matt Cameron, though when they played at the Tulalip Casino in July.
Wall of Guitars.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t make an effort to go see them, but I do like Ricky Nelson. My dad, who would have turned 70 this year, would probably have gone to a show like this; he grew up watching Ozzie and Harriet, and listened to Ricky’s music. I remember vividly when Ricky died, because my dad actually teared up a little.</p>
<p>Nelson, the band the boys had 20 years ago or so, did achieve some success. They had really long blonde hair and could have passed for Malfoys.</p>
<p>My husband and I are making an effort to watch some of the really old classic movies (thank you, Netflix for $8/month). A few weeks ago, The African Queen. Sunday, Rio Bravo, with John Wayne, Dean Martin, and Ricky Nelson. [Rio</a> Bravo (1959) - IMDb](<a href=“http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053221/]Rio”>Rio Bravo (1959) - IMDb) I have to say, he could act, he was cute, and he had a heckuva singing voice. I didn’t think I’d enjoy the movie, but I did.</p>