Eric Andersen, The Tin Angel, Philadelphia, March 1999 Some concerts I remember only who went with me. Some concerts I forget because of who went with me. This show was neither, simply a moving performance I saw with some friends from grad school who are more or less out of my life, though not in… Continue reading Long Live Rock: Eric Andersen
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Long Live Rock: Elliott Smith
The Black Cat, Washington, D.C., September or October 1998 I've been doing this concert series on and off for two years now, and a chance encounter with a bootleg recording of Elliott Smith performing John Lennon's "Jealous Guy" at the Black Cat club cracked open a forgotten memory, a forgotten concert. In 1998 I saw… Continue reading Long Live Rock: Elliott Smith
Long Live Rock: The Tragically Hip
Toledo Zoo Amphitheater, June 1996 The zoo is a crazy place for a rock concert, but for the Tragically Hip, this Depression-era amphitheater was perfect. And this was years before Gord Downie sang about Gus, the polar bear in Central Park (In Between Evolution, 2004). I like to think that the Toledo Zoo was his… Continue reading Long Live Rock: The Tragically Hip
Long Live Rock: Dougie MacLean
The Ark, Ann Arbor, circa 1996 Another concert with Tim, who was in grad school at Michigan by this point. Dougie was fantastic -- The Ark is an intimate venue, and as I remember it, we were sitting just a row or two from the stage. I watched transfixed as Dougie tuned his guitar differently… Continue reading Long Live Rock: Dougie MacLean
Long Live Rock: The Indigo Girls
I'm not quite finished with the concerts of the nineties yet, though from here on out I'll be jumping around chronologically, as I remember the shows. And here is one I can't believe I almost forgot: Indigo Girls, Toledo, 1995 Two things I remember about this show, maybe three. (1) I went with Tim, my… Continue reading Long Live Rock: The Indigo Girls
Long Live Rock in the New Millennia: Mojave 3
A long time back I began a series of posts about the different live concerts I've seen since the eighties. A student of mine who happens to be a Glen Phillips fan dug up an old post about a Toad the Wet Sprocket concert in the early nineties. It got me thinking that I never… Continue reading Long Live Rock in the New Millennia: Mojave 3
Long Live Rock, the Nineties, Part IV
10. The Moody Blues (1994?, Blossom Music Center) Suddenly it was the eighties again.
Long Live Rock, The Nineties, Part III
Hothouse Flowers / Ziggy Marley and the Wailers / Midnight Oil (1993, Cleveland) A triple bill. An absurdly mismatched triple bill. I went for Hothouse Flowers, Wendy went for Midnight Oil. We both grooved to the Wailers, although reggae really wasn't my thing back then. I guess it still isn't. Peter Garrett was huge. At… Continue reading Long Live Rock, The Nineties, Part III
Long Live Rock, the Nineties, Part II
The early nineties are hazy, for no particular reason, other than that they were so long ago. Still, I'm determined to continue write about every concert I ever attended. The eighties were easy because attending concerts was a new thing for me, and I saw "big" acts like The Who and The Kinks, all near… Continue reading Long Live Rock, the Nineties, Part II
Long Live Rock, the Nineties, Part I
Royal Crescent Mob (1990, Hall Auditorium, Miami University) I don't remember this concert, or this band. Royal Crescent Mob was the midwest's answer to the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Unfortunately, nobody had ever asked that particular question. I went because I was working with one of the organizations sponsoring the concert. I can't even remember… Continue reading Long Live Rock, the Nineties, Part I
Long Live Rock, More Eighties
I'd forgotten at least one concert in the eighties: Ray Charles (1989, Millett Hall at Miami University) This was a Parents' Weekend Concert, my first semester at college. My parents came and Ray Charles was late. That's about all I remember: the concert started something like an hour late. Ray Charles must have sang "Georgia… Continue reading Long Live Rock, More Eighties
Long Live Rock (Be It Dead or…)
For some reason, I've been wanting to make a list of every rock concert I've ever attended. Not that there have been a lot. I was never a big concert goer, which makes the handful I've been to all the more interesting to see listed. (Yet, as I start thinking about this list, I keep… Continue reading Long Live Rock (Be It Dead or…)