posted
March 16, 1981- 15 year old rhino goes to his first rock concert- XTC, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Jools Holland & his Millionaires. I went with my father, my cousin Jackie, and my best friend Roger. My father bought me a Bush Tetras tee-shirt. I told him that there were guys smoking pot in the men's room and he said, "So what?" By the end of that year, I had gone to at least a dozen concerts: B-52s, the Ramones, the Pretenders, the Plasmatics, Talking Heads, Nina Hagen Band, the Violent Femmes, BowWowWow, Squeeze, the Specials-most of them with my dad!!
From: elizabeth,nj | Registered: Jul 2003
| IP: Logged |
cleome46
or you can do the confusion 'til your head falls off
posted
Hey, FL, if you do find any Black Watch clips, let me know if you like them. They're still active, even though I thought they kinda' lost something when J'Ana Jacoby (who sang "Steve Albini") left the band.
-------------------- Hey, Kids! My "Cranky and Kitschy" collage art is now viewable on flickr. Drop by and tell me that I sent you.
From: Vanity, OR | Registered: Dec 2008
| IP: Logged |
Believe it or not, I actually did go to a Pearl Jam concert around 2002-2003, because they're a guy friend of mine's second favorite band after U2. It was supposed to be a double date, but my @#$@#% of a partner at the time decided at the last minute not to go. Anyway, they were surprisingly okay and they covered the Who's "Baba O'Riley" as the encore.
cleome46
or you can do the confusion 'til your head falls off
posted
I saw Pearl Jam on... uh, I think it was 7/4 sometime in the early Nineties, with an old college buddy who couldn't take his girlfriend to the show because she was out of town.
Mostly I remember that it was hot and dry, and that there were a couple of decent Neil Young covers. The rest is lost to memory.
-------------------- Hey, Kids! My "Cranky and Kitschy" collage art is now viewable on flickr. Drop by and tell me that I sent you.
From: Vanity, OR | Registered: Dec 2008
| IP: Logged |
posted
My favorite Neil Young song is from the 80s, marking the end of his decade-long identity crisis: 1989's "Rockin' in the Free World." I've got his memorable Saturday Night Live performance of said song on a VHS tape.
cleome46
or you can do the confusion 'til your head falls off
posted
I have a secret weakness for some of This Note's For You.
Ain't singin' for Miller Ain't singin' for Spuds...
-------------------- Hey, Kids! My "Cranky and Kitschy" collage art is now viewable on flickr. Drop by and tell me that I sent you.
From: Vanity, OR | Registered: Dec 2008
| IP: Logged |
cleome46
or you can do the confusion 'til your head falls off
posted
I've learned the hard way not to read bios of people I admire. The admiration never survives.
-------------------- Hey, Kids! My "Cranky and Kitschy" collage art is now viewable on flickr. Drop by and tell me that I sent you.
From: Vanity, OR | Registered: Dec 2008
| IP: Logged |
posted
Outdoor Miner, I remember hearing about the falling out. And I agree, McDonnough deserves a lot of credit for not using that as an excuse to try to tear Young down.
Ever since Eryk informed me that the 80s TV cartoon Visionaries, which I never saw (due to living in Ecuador at the time) but which is universally beloved, is avaiable on YouTube, I've put getting a new computer at the top of my list of Things to Do When I Save Some Cash.
In the meantime, I'm enjoying my now-out-of-print DVDs of another 80s cartoon, Defenders of Earth, where Flash Gordon, The Phantom, and Mandrake head a multi-generational, multi-racial team of heroes.
It's not the best 80s cartoon, mainly because unlike most other Marvel Productions cartoons, which were mostly animated in Japan with the occassional farm-out to Korea, DOTE was mostly animated in Korea, whose animation industry was very young at the time and not of the best quality.
Still, there are plenty of gems, especially among the later episodes. And it has sentimental value because, in the 80s, I advidly followed all three of the newspaper comics that inspired this show, especially the Phantom, which at the time was beautifully drawn by Sy Barry. That's why it's so cool that the team's token girl is the Phantom's daughter!
Trivia: Mandrake was voiced by Peter Reneday (Master Splinter from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Lothar was voiced by Buster Jones (Blaster from Transformers, Doc from G.I. Joe, and Arsenio Hall's replacement as Winston from The Real Ghostbusters), and Flash was voiced by Lou Richards (Leader-1 from GoBots)
Hyperpath: Email this page to someone!
Printer-friendly view of this topic | Subscribe To Topic
![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
![[No]](graemlins/shake.gif)
