Apr 25, 2022·edited Apr 25, 2022Liked by Chris Zappa
I'm still super into patchnotes' Golden Hour. I'm also OCD enough to try and constantly capitalize it.
I picked up Khruangbin & Leon Bridges' "Texas Moon" record recently, mostly of the strength of Terry Barr's endorsement. I'm not in love with it, but I can definitely see it growing on me.
My first show? None other than Huey Lewis & the News. December 1986 and the Memorial Coliseum in PDX. No Rose Garden yet, so this was still /the/ place for big bands to play. My dad got us tickets for Christmas, and we went with 2 of his fellow computer programmer friends. We looked like extras from "Halt & Catch Fire."
This was the sort of story you keep to yourself as a teenager, but the truth is it was an amazing show. Bruce Hornsby & the Range opened, and were fantastic (nerd alert: my dad excitedly pointed out that Range bassist Joe Puerta was also in Ambrosia).
Going to a show completely wrecked my frame of reference of what music could be and what it meant to see live performances. We didn't know it yet, but that would also be one of the last things my dad & I ever did together; he passed away suddenly less than 2 weeks later.
Lifelong Pumpkins fan here and not sure if I'm rejoicing about a new record, ha! I'll defend anything through Machina but Cyr was pretty miserable imo (bringing back James Iha couldn't even save it). Saw them a few times back in the 90s and they were incredible, but saw their tour before covid and it was a bloated mess. Between Mark McGrath as a carnival barker during song interludes and them covering "Paradise City," I couldn't help but think I should have gone to the Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever show down the road.
I'm still super into patchnotes' Golden Hour. I'm also OCD enough to try and constantly capitalize it.
I picked up Khruangbin & Leon Bridges' "Texas Moon" record recently, mostly of the strength of Terry Barr's endorsement. I'm not in love with it, but I can definitely see it growing on me.
My first show? None other than Huey Lewis & the News. December 1986 and the Memorial Coliseum in PDX. No Rose Garden yet, so this was still /the/ place for big bands to play. My dad got us tickets for Christmas, and we went with 2 of his fellow computer programmer friends. We looked like extras from "Halt & Catch Fire."
This was the sort of story you keep to yourself as a teenager, but the truth is it was an amazing show. Bruce Hornsby & the Range opened, and were fantastic (nerd alert: my dad excitedly pointed out that Range bassist Joe Puerta was also in Ambrosia).
Going to a show completely wrecked my frame of reference of what music could be and what it meant to see live performances. We didn't know it yet, but that would also be one of the last things my dad & I ever did together; he passed away suddenly less than 2 weeks later.
Lifelong Pumpkins fan here and not sure if I'm rejoicing about a new record, ha! I'll defend anything through Machina but Cyr was pretty miserable imo (bringing back James Iha couldn't even save it). Saw them a few times back in the 90s and they were incredible, but saw their tour before covid and it was a bloated mess. Between Mark McGrath as a carnival barker during song interludes and them covering "Paradise City," I couldn't help but think I should have gone to the Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever show down the road.
Are you into any of the post "classic" records?