Air Supply! 04.24.2009

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Friday, April 24, 2009
Air Supply (!)
Wheeling Island Casino
Wheeling, WV

You would think that someone who loves wuss rock as much as I do would have known that Air Supply are not, in fact, dead. But I totally thought they were - or at least not still touring - and yet when I set up my various preferences for music on iLike, there they were: on tour at casinos around the country. So I made plans to drag my sister-in-law along (we're both younger than the group Air Supply) to Wheeling Island, the classiest WV casino this side of Charles Town. We didn't get there in time for the dog racing but we did managed to make it before Air Supply started. The Showroom is basically just a very large ballroom area with a ton of chairs set up in front of a stage. There was no rake to the floor and the center section was way too long of a row. But it wasn't bad - I could see fine the whole time. I felt kinda bad for anyone blocked by a whole party of drunk girls (who were probably younger than me) dancing in the aisle.
Air Supply - Graham and Russell - and their hired guns (keys/guitar/bass/drums) played for almost two hours, changed shirts a couple times, did a solo acoustic song, had some crazy banter, and even came down into the audience full of crazed fans to shake hands and hug the ladies. They did all the hits, including songs I didn't even know they recorded like The Power of Love and Without You [which I only think of as Ken Lee] and songs that I had totally forgotten about like Just As I Am and Two Less Lonely People in the World [which are definitely going in my musical featuring the songs of Air Supply]. At any rate, I definitely want to see them again and I really need to get cracking on my musical.