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Josh? Anyone have a friend named Josh? A couple of friends? Everyone you know is named Josh? Josh Lee Turner, not the Country Music guy. The little miss can replicate Dollys voice OK.
This is half of a travel. Continue on if you want to.
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Josh? Anyone have a friend named Josh? A couple of friends? Everyone you know is named Josh? Josh Lee Turner, not the Country Music guy. The little miss can replicate Dollys voice OK.
This is half of a travel. Continue on if you want to.Last edited by dryheat; 04-07-2023, 11:07.If I should die before I wake...great,a little more sleep. -
been going a different direction lately
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I liked your new direction!Comment
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BTW dryheat,
have you been listening to (cannot remember if I had posted it before) to any of Steve Martin's work with Edie Brickell?Comment
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in our peak, the wife and I would do 12 or more concerts a year,
post cooties, that is down to about half of that,
mostly cause not everyone is touring,
I've seen OMD, Gary Numan, English Beat, Elvis Costello and Adrian Belew in the past 6 months ot a year or so,
missed Andrew Bird last week, and Winery Dogs, (out of town for a gunshow)
will see Belew again with Jerry Harrison in June, and may get ticks for Tears for Fears in Sept,
also have tics for Squeeze/Psychedelic Furs in Sept,Comment
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Used to do a lot of concerts myself. I've seen the Beatles, Elvis and many others (no country). The college I used to go to promoted some of the local concerns and offered low cost tickets too.
My comment came from your mention of Steve Martin. I immediately thought of him playing a banjo along with Jerry Van Dike.
One person's music is another person's poison.Comment
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The Beatles. Mercy. I did see Paul McCartney. A great time and a great date. Just about the perfect day. Second best? There were a lot. Maybe Leonard Cohen. The worst? A hot summer day and Deep Purple with no Ritchie Blackmore. Just noise(on that particular day). I wish I could remember the backup band that was good. [finally] It was Montrose.
Edie Brickell can knock it out of the park.Last edited by dryheat; 04-07-2023, 01:18.If I should die before I wake...great,a little more sleep.Comment
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Beatles. 1966 Mid South colosseum Memphis, TN. Last year they toured. Our whole family went---I was only 13 at the time.
Elvis. 1977 Mobile, AL a couple of months before he died.
Elton John. Mobile, AL back when he was thought of as being flamboyant instead of as queer as a 3 dollar bill.
Badfinger. Mobile
Paul Revere and the Raiders. Mobile
Carpenters, Dr Hook and the Medicine Show, others
Had to stop going. The politicians overseeing the Mobile collosseum were convicted of fraud/corruption and so all concerts shut down.
Me and my wife's taste in music drifted apart. The crowds started to become too wild. At one of the last concerts we went to people started throwing fireworks (lit). Then there was the ordeal in leaving--everyone trying to get out at once. 10,000 people leaving through one gate unto a busy highway makes for a lot of frustration.
Got to be just not worth it for us plus we don't like any of the newer "stars".
In my opinion YouTube has them all beat. I put on the headphones and listen to what I want regardless of who they are or what year it was done. Bad acoustics? Just click on a different concert.Comment
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biggest venue we went to was Merriweather Post in Md,
and the Jiffy Lube live in Va,
about the same size,
saw a ton of bands, including Elvis Costello from IbMePdErRoIoAmL till maybe Punch the Clock
saw the Killers there too,
Coldplay at JLL,
most of what we go see is 80's alternative, so the venues (The National in RVA, The Norva in Norfolk, and 930 club, Lincoln, Echo Stage, in DC,
just to name a few, have maybe 3000 people,
easy in and out,Comment
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Yup, I never liked crowds and now I can't even imagine going to concert. I never listen to the radio. Utube has turned me on to loads of great music. I have stacks of CD's out in the workshop but I don't know how people listen to (or buy) music these days. It has something to do with phones.If I should die before I wake...great,a little more sleep.Comment
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years ago, when we had in this city, on FM
a country station
a rock (AOR) station
a top 40 station
an Ez Listening station
and an Urban Station,
there were very few ways to find out about new music,
VCU's radio station barely left campus,
UR's radio station had a very limited range,
very limited
as did the local alternative AM station, 10 miles out of town and the signal got spotty, and I lived more than 10 miles out of town
so, the AOR station (album oriented rock) would sometimes play something besides what we now call Classic Rock,
and had a show on Sunday nights that played new artist,
otherwise you went to any of about a 1\2 dozen indy record shops and listened to what they were playing, or gambled on a record based on what you had read (in a magazine, not on the internet) about them and hoped you liked it,
ditto concerts,
a couple of the indy record shops had a board up on who was playing where,
sometimes a very thorough list, sometimes not so much,
I missed the Clash in DC by a month, and a few local bar shows by great bands (Gang of 4 for example) by days,,
just simply because I did not go in the record shop that week,
VCU area, for example, had 5 or more local hot spot small venues, as in most were probably 2x's as big as the normal 3 car garage, but you had to go there to see what was coming soon, or if you got lucky, a flyer was posted somewhere, or word of mouth,
I got lucky and caught Black Flag and The Dead Kennedy's at the same venue a month or 2 apart, and both were great shows
Merriweather Post had a mailing list, if you sent them a few buck early in the season, they would mail you a calendar, and an update later in the year,
that is how I found out about Costello, and also from a magazine called Trouser Press,
when they toured each year , and they always hit Merriweather Post,
IIRC, for the Punch the Clock tour, they hit Hampton VA (I was there) and the next night, Merriweather Post, (I was there too)
great to see a great artist 2 nights in a rowComment
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Wifey and I saw Chicago earlier this year. I was surprised how good they still sound and moved.
Just this past weekend we went to a show with The Spinners and the O'Jays. It was a pretty small crowd but the show was good and the crowd there was fun too.
Before that it was some while since I saw live music. I think maybe a Demon-Hunter show.....
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