Tony loved David Bowie. I think when he was younger, he would be compared to David Bowie and secretly I'm sure he loved that. There was a guy I went to high school that also loved David Bowie who liked to look like him too. I'm sure he loved other musicians but this is the one that I always attribute to him. We also loved Rod Stewart and Peter Mayer.
At some point in 1989-1991 him and I went to the cities to go see the Indigo Girls concert. I think we had both just learned about them and I wanted to go BAD. The tickets were sold out but I was willing to pay a ticket scalper so we went down there two hours before the show. When we got there, there was a couple of guys with a sign "We need two tickets" already waiting. I asked them if they had talked to the ticket office yet and they hadn't so I let the office know that the line started with them. About 5 minutes later a woman came up and sold her tickets to the two guys so we were first in line AND we got there sign. Pretty quickly after that, the ticket office knocked on their window to get our attention and we were able to purchase two FRONT ROW tickets at face value and I was ecstatic! We dumped the sign in the garbage and went off to have dinner at some ethnic restaurant, maybe thai or something. On our way back to the show, there was a long line of people looking for extra tickets and someone dug the sign out of the garbage and was using it. I'm not sure that the front row was the best place for that venue, I remember the music being SO LOUD that I used cigarette filters in my ears to try to quiet the noise level. It was a good night and one I never forgot.
This picture of David Bowie looks a bit like your Dad when he was younger.
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