'Serenity'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Rush was fun. The first arena concert I've been to in, I dunno, 20 years? (My brother was visiting and Rush was his idea.)
ION, has this been posted? 1001 Series. Click on '1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die'
Damn. I better get on that.
And a 25-year-old blogger is listening to one of the 1001 a day: Liz's 1001 Albums
The current album is Swordfish Trombones
That 1001 list is odd. There seems to be a lot of variety until you look more closely: Do you really need to hear five different Radiohead albums before you die? All five Led Zeppelin albums? I can sorta see the multiple entries for the Beatles or the Stones, since they went through many phases, but not so much the former two.
t on edit Surely a few of those could have been dropped for some Neutral Milk Hotel, Husker Du or Mission of Burma.
The current album is Swordfish Trombones
Never heard of it.
Never heard of it.
Careful, Hec. You'll put a hole in your cheek with your tongue like that.
You'll put a hole in your cheek with your tongue like that.
I should take off the drill bit attachment.
So what was the last arean show folks have been to? Besides last night, my last was Nirvana when they toured behind their last studio album. Before that it was the Greatful Dead (friend bought me a ticket), R.E.M., David Bowie--all in the late '80s.
I saw the Pixies on Saturday in an arena.
Beastie Boys at the Long Beach Convention Center. HOMG what a great show. It was like seeing three different bands but they were all the same guys. (they kept leaving the stage and coming back in different outifts and different genres) That was, maybe 5 years ago. Before that, Robert Plant at Poplar Creek in the mid 90s.
Rush was probably my last arena show too. I used to go to a lot of shows, but alas, no more. So most of my current shows are festival acts.
My last arena show was taking Emmett to see The Stooges. But even that wasn't a real stadium - it was at the Orpheum. Still it was my first non-club music event in a long time.