Love & Rockets w/Orgy3/5/99 First Avenue w/John, David & Kjrsten Ticket Price: Unknown The opening act, Orgy, was ok. Just ok. I hadn’t heard much about them before the show. I knew they did a cover of New Order’s brilliant “Blue Monday”. About all this new Goth band did was remind me that the bandsContinue reading “concert memoirs pt. 30 – love & rockets & buzzcocks”
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concert memoirs pt. 29 – cheap trick, cheap trick & cheap trick
Cheap Trick 11/5/98 First Avenue w/Dave Ticket Price: Unknown This was the first night of three night concert event. Cheap Trick had rereleased their first three albums: “Cheap Trick”, “In Color” & “Heaven Tonight”. To promote the rereleases the band did this three night concert event with each night focusing on each album. They wouldContinue reading “concert memoirs pt. 29 – cheap trick, cheap trick & cheap trick”
concert memoirs pt. 28 – semisonic, bauhaus & the church
Semisonic 6/6/98 First Avenue Alone Ticket Price: Unknown I must admit feeling strangely smitten by this band. At least, at the time. It must have been the catchy tunes that were reminding me of Trip Shakespeare, the previous band of Dan Wilson and John Munson. When I bought Great Divide I wasn’t aware of theContinue reading “concert memoirs pt. 28 – semisonic, bauhaus & the church”
concert memoirs pt. 27 – the who
The Who7/22/97 Target Center w/Dave Ticket Price: $31.00 Dave and I were working together in those days. Slaving away at small t-shirt printing shop in Minneapolis. I was in the art department, he was a printer. We discovered we had in few things in common. One being that we were both fans of The Who.Continue reading “concert memoirs pt. 27 – the who”
9/11/08
Seven years. No attacks on American soil. Thank you!
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