Borrowed this from Backstage......very cute story!!!

Granny groupies go gaga for Bon Jovi

By C.E. Hanifin
Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers

WAUSAU - At 80 years old, Dorothy Korzilius is not your typical Bon Jovi groupie, but she and nine of her buddies just spent an evening with the band.

The Wausau woman launched her own "10 grandmothers" tour Tuesday, rounding up a group of friends to travel to the Bon Jovi concert in St. Paul, Minn. Her son Paul manages the band.

With a "Bon Jovi World Tour" scarf wrapped around her neck, she ushered the women into a white Cadillac stretch limo from a Wausau restaurant. Several women who'd seen the band before, including 60-year-old Roselie Wiedow of Tomahawk, waved their Bon Jovi tour T-shirts.

"This is what the graying nation does," Korzilius said. "We don't just go to gambling places."
The group, which included several members of Korzilius' bridge club, held box-seat tickets to the show and all-access backstage passes. They'd also been invited to dine with the crew and some of the band members.

"We'll be ushered right in," Korzilius said. "We won't have to stand in line with all those little cuties in their short skirts waiting outside the stage door to get in."
Korzilius is accustomed to the royal treatment at Bon Jovi shows. She said she was especially looking forward to saying hello to the members of the group, including lead singer Jon Bon Jovi, who calls her "Mrs. K."
She's a one-woman street team for her favorite rockers, wearing Bon Jovi T-shirts around town, talking up their new album, and helping the group win fans by bringing newcomers to its shows.

Five of Korzilius' friends, including Charlotte Rasmussen of Stanley, were anticipating attending their first rock concert ever Tuesday. But all the women said they are rock 'n' roll fans: Their favorite bands range from the Beatles to Fleetwood Mac to U2.

"I'm one of the baby boomers," said Rasmussen, 56. "Of course I love rock music."
Korzilius herself came late to the thrills of live rock 'n' roll. The classical music buff saw her first concert at age 55 when Paul, who was working on the Queen tour, invited his mom and dad to a show in Chicago.

"We were the only gray-haired people at the Queen concert," she said.

"It was the pot-smoking days. There was a lot of entertainment in the audience, as well as on stage."
After that, Korzilius and her husband, Dick, went to see all the bands her son toured with, including Cheap Trick, Cher and the Scorpions.

Korzilius, who has seen Bon Jovi a dozen times at venues all over the country, said this will be the first show she'll attend without Dick, who died three months ago. She'll think of him when the crowd jumps to its feet with the first guitar chords.

"My husband never could understand how people could pay $75 for a seat and never sit down," she said.

Bon Jovi's fans differ quite a bit from the audience at the first concert Korzilius attended.

"The crowd's a lot better behaved," she said. "There are a lot of parents in their 30s and 40s there with their children."
Bon Jovi's certainly not a moldy oldies act, however, Rasmussen said. Her backstage pass has made her the envy of her twentysomething daughter and son.

"My kids are just dying, saying, 'Mom, I want to go,'" she said.

Despite the band's reputation as big-haired teen dreams during their '80s "Slippery When Wet" heyday, the New Jersey rockers' reincarnation as a family band makes sense - after all, lead singer Jon Bon Jovi came out as a soccer dad on the cover of People magazine last year. He's the kind of clean-cut rocker that a mother - and grandmother - could love.

"He's so genuine," Korzilius said. "He just wins you over when you see him smile on stage."
And the frontman's not the only charmer in the group, Korzilius said.

"They're all good, especially the drummer," Tico Torres, she said. "I love drummers - there's just something about that beat."
As the women prepared to shuttle off to the show Tuesday morning, a bit of girls'-night-out giddiness overtook the giggling group, which also included Pat Rasmussen, Sandy Ermeling, Ann Heidemann, Anita Beilke, Gail Mayer, Dode Hollander and Gigi Malone.

"Age means nothing when it comes to music," Korzilius said.

Well, perhaps there's one advantage to bringing a bit of maturity along on a rock 'n' roll road trip, Charlotte Rasmussen said.

"I don't think we'll be spending the night in jail or anything," she said.