Monster Truck Races

I was a little surprised when I found tickets to see the El Diablo Monster truck race at the Energy Solutions Arena and Chieko wanted to go.

This is the Ford F-350 El Diablo. Cool.

When we arrived at the Arena, me in my worn Levi jacket and cowboy boots, I discovered most of the other spectators were old people dressed like they were going to a concert. Boy, would they be surprised when they heard the roar of 600-horsepower engines and saw the flying dirt.

Inside, people were sitting where the trucks should have been, and the stage said, "Il Divo," not "El Diablo." What's Il Divo?

In Italina, il divo means divine male performer. This was a singing group with four guys who together sing as one divine male performer. Or something like that. They were discovered by Simon Cowell, one French pop singer and three opera singers from the U.S., Spain, and Switzerland. They sing pop songs from Frank Sinatra's "My Way" to Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Waters." With 600-horsepower voices, I must say.

They even had acrobatics, when the four lighting guys climbed to their perches high above the stage.

Sabastian (pop singer from France who gave up the electric guitar and song writing), David (tenor from America who chose Il Divo over the NY Metropolitan opera), Carlos (baritone from Spain whose heroes are Tom Jones and Mario Lanza), Urs (tenor from Switzerland who sang opera and is a motorcycle fanatic).

Boy, was I surprised at the roar of 20,000 screaming women and flying roses during the encores.

This is a short piece of the "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" performance.