Jim "Dr. Dim" Fitzsimons

concert memoirs pt. 38 – the who

The Who w/Counting Crows9/24/02 Xcel Energy Center w/Amy Ticket Price: $150.00 The image for this installment isn’t a ticket stub. I know I saved it, but I can’t find it. What you see is the cover of the CD of the show. It’s part of a two disk set, recorded live that night, that couldContinue reading “concert memoirs pt. 38 – the who”

concert memoirs pt. 37 – los straitjackets & the church

Los Straitjackets “Rock & Roll Party” w/Big Sandy & Pontani Sisters 10/26/01 First Avenue w/Amy & Mark Ticket Price: Unknown We were late for this show. I don’t remember why, I’m guessing that we thought Los Straitjackets would be going on later. The “Rock & Roll Party” was the teaming up of Los Straitjackets, normallyContinue reading “concert memoirs pt. 37 – los straitjackets & the church”

concert memoirs pt. 36 – david byrne & rev. horton heat

David Byrne w/Joe Henry 5/22/01 First Avenue w/Amy Ticket Price: Unknown It looks like May 2001 was legendary musicians month. First, Iggy Pop and now David Byrne. That makes a pretty good month for music. Neither Amy nor I had ever seen the Talking Heads. This would be as close as we would get soContinue reading “concert memoirs pt. 36 – david byrne & rev. horton heat”

concert memoirs pt. 35 – soft boys, frank black and the catholics & iggy pop

Soft Boys 3/31/01 First Avenue w/Amy & John Ticket Price: Comp. Tickets This was cool. The Soft Boys reunited and re-issued ‘Underwater Moonlight’, the first album of theirs I had ever heard. Somewhere around 1985 or so, John and I drove down to Beloit, WI to visit a friend of ours who was going toContinue reading “concert memoirs pt. 35 – soft boys, frank black and the catholics & iggy pop”

half a miracle on the hudson?

By now most everyone must know about US Airways Flight 1549 being struck by a flock of geese, losing both its engines, the pilot ably landing the craft in the Hudson River, bringing the passengers to safety with no loss of life. By now most everyone has heard (or said) it was a miracle. IContinue reading “half a miracle on the hudson?”