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”
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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?”
concert memoirs pt. 34 – duran duran & elastica
Duran Duran 8/18/00 New World Music Theatre w/Amy, Sarah & Sean Ticket Price: $26.50 Yep, that’s right. Duran Duran. Hard to believe I would see this band, right? Guess what else. The New World Music Theatre is in Joliet, Illinois! Uh huh, we drove all the way to Joliet to see the “wild boys”. IfContinue reading “concert memoirs pt. 34 – duran duran & elastica”
concert memoirs pt. 33 – the the, boss hog, bob mould, manplanet & los straitjackets
The The 5/6/00 First Avenue w/Amy Ticket Price: $18.00 This was the second time I had seen The The and the first for Amy. Amy and I were pretty tight by this time. We were close to moving in together at her apartment. One bedroom, shared with a dog and a cat, pretty cramped, butContinue reading “concert memoirs pt. 33 – the the, boss hog, bob mould, manplanet & los straitjackets”
concert memoirs pt. 32 – rev. horton heat, los straitjackets, yo la tengo & rev. horton heat
Reverend Horton Heat w/Los Straitjackets 12/13/99 First Avenue w/Amy & Mark Ticket Price: Unknown I had heard of both of these bands before I met Amy, but I hadn’t heard any of their music. Amy introduced me to the Reverend, she had two or three of his albums, and I liked what I heard. So,Continue reading “concert memoirs pt. 32 – rev. horton heat, los straitjackets, yo la tengo & rev. horton heat”
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