The Concert

Well, forget no show Jones. It turned out to be no show McCartney...

I don't know why yet. I heard a rumor about Sir Paul being okay with one TV station being there and was told when Sir Paul arrived there were other news vans there and he left. Although, news vans were turned away all day, except one station who was allowed to tape all day. So, until I read something concrete, I am clueless as to why he didn't perform.

That is a problem here in the OC. We don't have any local news stations. We either have LA or San Diego stations! We are certainly big enough to have our own station, but we don't have one.... :(

It was a beautiful day. Mid seventies for the most part. Ocean was spectacular, which was a good thing because every hour we would hear the Paul McCartney was going to be up. Only one more act. HaHa to us. We saw several bands. Most local. Some more well known. The concert was supposed to be 12-7:00. We finally left at 7:30 and since we were one of ten families retrieving our children who were supposed to sing with Sir Paul, we knew to leave before they finished the raffle, and before the next band got to tell the crowd that Sir Paul would not be coming!

There were several pissed off people in the crowd, just from waiting. We all felt we had been had, waiting hour after hour for Sir Paul's appearance. We were originally told he would perform at 3:00. Our singer children were kept confined to the multi-purpose room so they didn't have to go find them when Sir Paul arrived. We felt sorry for them, being cooped up in a room all day.

At the end of the day, the wonderful teacher who had put together the chorus for Sir Paul and stayed with them all day rehearsing and supervising, was probably the angriest of all! She worked the night before arranging for the kids to be there and then morning rehearsal with the kids and then all of the concert when she could have been doing something else. Not only the teacher though, I heard several stories from folks who had plans and cancelled them because they had invested a whole day in waiting for Sir Paul to arrive and didn't want to leave too soon. Many kids were on melt down and wanted to leave as well.

If we had gone to the concert just to hang out and watch the bands we knew would be there, that would have been great. Gorgeous weather, great view, great locale, families with kids running around, frisbees flying everywhere, lots of money being made for the landslide victims, what more could we have asked for? But we were duped into a waiting game.

I felt worst for the children who supposed to sing. When my daughter came out of the multi-purpose room, she was happy as could be. The "talent," was catered to and got food, beverages, treats, somebody to entertain them, played lots of games. The genuinely had a fabulous time!

In the end, it was those of us who wanted to see Paul McCartney and didn't get to that I felt worse for. And for the kids who really wanted to be some place else....