So while most of my weekend was spent doing boring house chores like cleaning both bathrooms in a single day, I did have one interesting event of note.
I worked a catering job Friday night with a friend’s catering business. It was a dinner thanking the supporters of the University of Virginia Marching Band, in their rehearsal hall. I drive past that building quite a bit, as I cut through Culbreth regularly, so it was neat to see the inside. I hadn’t been wowed by it before, but having been in it, I can say that I am now. Clean lines, warm finishes and lots of big windows with a great view of Lambeth Field behind it.
While we were setting up Friday afternoon, we got to listen to the entertainment for the evening do a little warm up and sound check, running through the majority of their show for later on. While they weren’t in costume for this performance, I think it was the better one of the two I saw.
Although their costumes definitely added something to the later performance.
That, dear friends, are The Temptations. I took the photo on a friend’s phone. They were dressed all in pink, right down to their shoes. Warming up, they started their rehearsal with a few acapella gospel numbers before moving on to all their hits, including my favorite “Papa was a Rolling Stone”. Tell me you don’t find yourself moving to that beat. And “Ball of Confusion”, another favorite of theirs, although I was in my thirties before I discovered that they did the first version. I always thought it was a Love and Rockets original. I am an Eighties New Wave child through and through.
Definitely a once in a lifetime experience, watching them warm up in a room of less than 20 people, although seeing them in a room with less than 150 folks later in the evening was a once in a lifetime experience as well. Pretty hard to top that, so yeah, other than seeing The Temptations, the highlight of my weekend was cleaning both bathrooms. What an exciting life I lead.
Chicken Wire & Paper Flowers 
Ah The Temptations…I'd have cleaned ten bathrooms at least! Years back we were strolling through Town Point Park and came upon the Tams jamming out…had no idea they were there, what a treat. It amazes me to see these guys so late in there years and not only can they sing but they can “move” like nobody's business. Bathrooms aside, what a treat for you this weekend.
How cool! And what an intimate way to experience such amazing music.