02 November – lundi
- Song: “Bottom of Your Boots” Ella Langley
- Not sure how much I’ll write here when I’m supposed to be writing the novel. We’ll see how it goes.
- Word count: 2440 — total: 4451
03 November – mardi
- Song: “I Just Need You” Riley Green (ft Hannah McFarland)
- Word count: 2352 – total: 6802
04 November – mercredi
- Song: “I Just Need You” Riley Green (ft. Hannah McFarland)
- Word count: 2017 — total: 8819
- It was nice waking up to a blue wave.
05 November – jeudi
- Song: “My Way” Riley Green
- Word count: 2231 – total: 11,050
06 November – vendredi
- Happy Birthday, Ryan!
- Happy Birthday, Alina!
- Song: “Saturday Night” Sam Hunt
- Word count: 1829 — total: 12879
- Thank goodness it’s Friday!
08 November – dimanche
- We saw Tyler Rich for The Event at the Hard Rock in Sacramento last night!
- Yesterday’s word count: 483 — total: 13362
HARD ROCK LIVE SACRAMENTO โ The Event 2026
I was wondering if this show was happening this year because the previous two times we attended, they were in the summer. We were actually going to see Tyler during standard time. Neat!
We drove up to Wheatland in the early afternoon, arriving just in time to check in. This time we were on the the 9th floor, with two beds. Our view was from the front of the building.
After we put our stuff in the room, we headed downstairs for some food then drinks then the Miami vs Notre Dame game. The new sports bar was open with all sorts of events playing. The staff had to prompted to switch on the college football game between the number 1 and number 11 ranked teams. What the heck?! It was fine once that was done.
The show started at 8 PM with a singer from Lodi, Carter Simpson. He started off strong with two rockin’ songs but by the time Richard took his seat beside me, the young artist seemed a little nervous. He showed a lot of promise and already had a great stage presence. But is he really only 20?!
During the intermission, the auction took place. Two guitars! Well, one signed by Carter (and Tyler?) and what turned out to be three acoustic guitars signed by Tyler. So four guitars all together. Sabina helped to auction Tyler’s guitar. She was so cute on stage! (It would be the only time we saw her. Alas!)
Tyler and the band took the stage soon after. They sounded GREAT! Tyler’s voice was especially strong and unwavering. I only took snippets of video for each song, more intent on just enjoying the experience. We had good seats with a nice view of everything.
Tyler’s playlist:
- Hello California
- Lost Time
- Cigarettes (Lie to Me)
- Make You Stay
- Whiskey Go Bad
- Made Up My Mind
- All the Small Things
- The Difference
- When?
- (band background bits)
- (California bits)
- 11:11
- Gets Me Every Time
- California Grown
- Cowboy Tears
- Leave Her Wild
It was a fantastic show and I’m so glad that we got to go. This would have been our only concert of the year if Riley Green hadn’t had a Bay Area stop.
As I watched Tyler on stage during the show, I couldn’t help really appreciating him and his music. I’m so glad we got to watch him in his G Bar days but this is so much better. I do hope he always does shows like this even when he gets bigger and does bigger shows.
We did get to see him at the bar after the show. A couple of other G Bar friends were there and we were all patient. When Tyler did appear, I thought my eyes were deceiving me because was he that guy in the cowboy hat? I was thrown off, for sure. He ended up sitting with us for a bit (well, I sat beside him while we were all chatting). Bits of what I remember:
- An older gentleman told us about Tyler’s dad telling a story about Tyler and his younger brother and the trampoline. We were all like, “WHAT?!”
- I asked Tyler about his hat size and told him the cowboy hat threw me off. The table agreed and he said that he could use it as a disguise. Ha!
- I’ll blame this on my drinks and the lateness of the hour but I told him about my November novel and how one of my characters is based on him (truth) but he’ll never read it. He said something about why not and to send it to him. Oh, but I don’t know about that, I thought to myself! He mentioned he’s thinking of writing something beyond the children’s books he’s so far published. Do it, Tyler! (And maybe my next story will feature a rogue hero in sci-fi/fantasy novel based on you!)
- Sabina was asleep, alas! I’m glad we got to see her on stage at least but I would have loved giving her a big hug. Next time!
- Loved spending the little bit of time with the other G Bar friends but how did we not take a picture together? Blame it on the late hour, I suppose.
- Got to say, “Love you,” to Tyler. ๐ Hey, it’s so true.
It was nice to get to bed afterwards but I apparently did not sleep well because my sleep score was in the single digits. WHAT?!
When we were finally heading out, we saw a couple of the band members getting ready to head off. I told Ben, the bass player, to have a good show tonight and that they were great last night. He thanked me and said he liked my hat. ๐
It was a good weekend and it’s still not over. Now I need to write LOTS of words!
