I Somehow

dragged myself last night to take the bus to the Grand Sierra Resort, which is only about a mile or mile-and-a-half from my place. I could have walked it, as I did the other day, but I would have had to do it at night, which isn't so good.

In previous years I drove my car, but I didn't want to mess with the traffic and having to park the car a million miles away. Taking the bus is the only way to go on the final weekend of Hot August Nights.

I didn't get to see the Four Tops (three of them being the originals with the other member having died) or the so-called Temptations at the Silver Legacy; I figured tickets had already sold out. The same is true for tonight's show at the same place with Brian Wilson. I am not going to bother even looking up whether there are tickets. I know there are not.

So I ended up attending a "free" tribute concert to Ricky Nelson by his twin sons, Matthew and Gunnar. It was pretty good. The twins performed many of their dad's old hits and added a couple of their own hits to the mix. What struck me most about the twins, who will be 40 next month, is how much they look like their granddad Ozzie, especially in profile. They look a little bit like their dad, especially when smiling, a little bit like their mother Kris, but they mostly look like Ozzie. They said they were happy to be in Reno and hoped to continue to attend Hot August Nights. Matthew lives in Los Angeles, while Gunnar lives in Nashville. I didn't know this, but they grew up in nearby Susanville, so they really like the area.

The twins talked about how close they were to their father, saying he was their best friend. They were just 18 when he was killed in 1985. It had to have been very hard on them.

They stayed around after the show for autographs and pictures and the like. I picked up their tribute CD.

When I returned, I continued watching a DVD of episodes of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. That show was great.