TINA TURNER!!!!!!!

Above: this is where we stood in line.

I am a fan. She is astonishing! The above picture was her opening outfit. This is how it opened: on the two screens on each sides of the screen was this perfect but shaking. The red curtains parted to reveal Tina in black sequins and 4-inch-high heels, standing on a 20-foot steel rod. She opened with “Steamy Windows” as four dancers in a flesh tone, sparkling bikini’s dance provocatively at her sides. There were SIX outfit changes and one nail polish change. The soles of her stiletto’s are RED! She is pure class! The woman has endurance like NONE other. This was her first tour since 2000 and her 50th anniversary of doing this.

It’s not a matter of what love has to do with it. As I was sitting there with my mouth WIDE open like I was catching flies I thought: She turns 69 in next month. There was this screen about half way through the concert that showed footage of her singing the same song she was singing with Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones, YEARS ago, Tina looks FABUOLOUS at 68, on the other hand, Jagger turned 65 in July and well is on the other end of the spectrum, is all I will say! So it’s not what’s love got to do with it……it’s what's age got to do with it?

Here is one outfit change:

She had a five-piece band, two background singers and four dancers who looked they like walked straight out of a Victoria Secrets catalog. She jumped in line with them and shook what her momma gave her right along with them. Her voice when she talked you could tell she is “mature” but when she sang….honey she BELTED it and it sounded strong, like she was 19. She sang with guys in her band and her backup singers. One of her backup singers is Lisa Fischer, (she had a list of credits at the end) took over a couple times so Tina could do a wardrobe change, she has a PHENOMENAL voice, she blew me away.


At the end, the very last song was “Nut Bush”, she was standing a narrow strip of runway at least eight feet above the crowd in the first 20 rows. Dancing. In high heels. I kid you negative!!! It swung back and forth over the audience. She did this for like 20 mins. Here is her leaning over the rail of it, singing to the crowd:

This show was mind-boggling. No bumps, glitches or mishaps and she still has the endurance, durability and enthusiasm of performers much younger than she is. I went there not knowing what to think or expect but I left there with an understanding of why so women, either her age or close, (even girls my age) LOVE her. She represents realness, strength, survival, and success. You can just tell she earned on her own way. None like her will come along soon……if ever.

P.S. I will try to post more pics of her different outfit changes as I find them.