Trip Shakespeare (Minneapolis band) I mentioned this in my blog about Breaking Circus, but I want to go into a little more detail on First Avenue’s New Band nights. Back when John and I were going to Club Degenerate, First Avenue’s weekly dance night featuring punk, post-punk, industrial, indie, etc. music, on each Tuesday night,Continue reading “concert memoirs pt. 40 – trip shakespeare, big black & the three johns”
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concert memoirs pt. 39 – the mighty mofos & breaking circus
Now that I have run out of ticket stubs, I’ll turn my memory machine to the shows for which I have no ticket stub and, therefore, I do not know the dates. It’s most likely that I never received a ticket stub for these shows, because I was pretty good about hanging onto them. SeveralContinue reading “concert memoirs pt. 39 – the mighty mofos & breaking circus”
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”
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