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 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
Between here and Philadelphia
The train. Unapologetically steel. Irresistible momentum. And the joy of discovering the red brake handle, knowing I can pull, and the train becomes my limb, my extension, which I control. Overriding engineers, coffee splashed on laptops throughout, the sudden stop. A hundred people stalled on tracks, the train a bullet bludgeoned to a blunt standstill,… Continue reading Between here and Philadelphia