That's awesome. He did seem like a good dude.
it was the same year/event where I met Billy Crystal, turns out that was 2001. Mr. Crystal was an exceptionally 'good dude'.
I didn't talk to Eddie, and I left right after the show started. I just watched him interacting with a bunch of strangers for a half hour. But he opened with 2 Tickets, and I heard he did it at least once as an encore. At the time, I remember thinking 'kind of sad'. But then a few years later I saw MGMT play Outside Lands and they didn't play "Kids" in their set.
It was weird...bordering on disrespectful. I thought about Eddie Money and said to myself "Eddie Money says Fuck You". I realized that Eddie was out there giving everybody what they wanted, spreading joy, collecting checks, and managing to do it without becoming a caricature of himself. So of all the "washed-up 80s male pop vocalists", I have a little bit of a soft spot for Eddie Money.