The ultimate jackpot
It’s too bad my mother didn’t live to see this - her grandson and his band performing in one of her favorite places on earth: the Windsor Casino.
What a jackpot that would have been …
This evening the Bubs will play The Colosseum at Caesars in Windsor, a 5,000-seat venue that’s part of the casino/hotel complex in Windsor, Ontario.
Even after the Detroit casinos opened, my mother, a lifelong Detroiter, preferred to play her video poker in the smokeless atmosphere of the casino across the river. The air was fresher, she said; the machines, more generous.
She never got to see Lord Huron. However, she did witness the larval stage of her grandson’s music career on two different occasions …
The first time came at an Okemos High School Jazz Band concert, directed, I might add, by Jim Barry, father of LH drummer Mark Barry. Mark was in the band, too. Benjamin was on double bass.
The second time came in 1998, at a high school graduation party for Benjamin’s older brother, Justin. As I recall, Mark and Tom also played. I think they were calling themselves Razor Dave at the time, or possibly The Skatrats.
For my mother, seeing the Bubs perform in front of 5,000 people would have been right up there with hitting a royal flush.
