{"id":4908,"date":"2013-11-25T07:10:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T13:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=4908"},"modified":"2013-11-24T19:57:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T01:57:00","slug":"concert-flashback-too-legit-world-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/concert-flashback-too-legit-world-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Concert Flashback: Too Legit World Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"92hammer\"<\/a>During the spring of 1992, my friends and I were big fans on the R&B group Boyz II Men. \u00a0When we found out that they were coming to town, as one of the opening acts for the former MC Hammer’s Too Legit world tour, we decided to make this our first concert experience. \u00a0A little more than a week before high school graduation, a small group of us, which included at least myself, Scott, Tracie, Courtney, headed north to the Rosemont Horizon to see the show.<\/p>\n

The scheduled performers for the evening were, in reverse order, Hammer, Boyz II Men, and Oaktown 357. \u00a0who I didn’t even realize were a female rap group until I just looked them up now on Wikipedia. \u00a0For reasons I don’t remember, the girls of Oaktown 357 did not perform that night, and instead were replaced by a little group called Jodeci. \u00a0While I hadn’t heard of them at the time, they would come to have a few hits that I would enjoy over the years.<\/p>\n

Boyz II Men, who were the stars of the show as far as our small group was concerned, played the middle set. \u00a0They only had the one album out at the time, and hadn’t really hit it big yet. \u00a0Of course, later that year, their hit from the Boomerang<\/em> soundtrack, End of the Road<\/em>, would make them the biggest stars in music. \u00a0I don’t remember how many songs they ended up singing, but it couldn’t have been much more than 5 or 6.<\/p>\n

Eventually, Hammer came out and, no matter what you think of his music, put on one hell of a show. \u00a0He was a few years removed from his U Can’t Touch This<\/em> heyday and the follow-up, 2 Legit 2 Quit<\/em>, did not have the success of its predecessor. \u00a0You wouldn’t know it from the show, as Hammer poured 100% effort to dance and rap, in that order, for the full house that had come out to see him.<\/p>\n

It was definitely an experience. \u00a0From our perspective, we were the only white folks in attendance, which doesn’t seem likely today. \u00a0From the ticket stub, it doesn’t appear that we had great seats, but, being our first concert, we certainly didn’t know any better. \u00a0This was my last hip-hop show, and while something in the rock genre would probably have made more sense for my first show, it does make a funny story all these years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the spring of 1992, my friends and I were big fans on the R&B group Boyz II Men. \u00a0When we found out that they were coming to town, as one of the opening acts for the former MC Hammer’s Too Legit world tour, we decided to make this our first concert experience. \u00a0A little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[2214,538,638,309,2290,1512,661,4146,29],"class_list":["post-4908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-boomerang","tag-boyz-ii-men","tag-courtney","tag-mc-hammer","tag-oaktown-357","tag-rosemont-horizon","tag-scott","tag-tracie","tag-wikipedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4912,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4908\/revisions\/4912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}