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| From | "John L. Micek" <jlmicek@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: Greatest Live Albums |
| Date | Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:52:59 -0500 |
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Stewart Mason wrote:
> I'm sure I've told this story here before, but I was at that concert. And
> as cool as it looked on MTV, let me tell you: we were frickin' FREEZING in
> that rain!
To Which I Reply:
I was watching that show from the safety of my living room in northwestern
Connecticut. I was a mere stripling of a lad at 13, and we'd just gotten MTV
for the first time. One of the first videos I ever saw was the live clip for
"Sunday Bloody Sunday," and it just blew my head off. Until then, my musical
diet had been a pretty steady dose of 80s AOR. But that performance just
blew my head off. The stadium rock gestures may be a little dated 25 years
down the road, but as a transformative moment for me, it was just huge. And
after that, I went off and found REM and college rock radio. Nothing was the
same for me after that.
john micek
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 10:26 AM
Subject: Re: Greatest Live Albums
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John L. Micek" <jlmicek@verizon.net>
>
>>I may have told this story before, but I wouldn't be playing music were it
>>not for "Under a Blood Red Sky." Seeing that concert on MTV inspired me to
>>pick up a bass guitar, and sparked the love affair with pop that's endured
>>to this day.
>> It's a priceless record, and U2 has rarely sounded so ferocious.
>
Interestingly, I just ran a Google check to
> remind myself of the exact date of that concert (the same week was the
> equally looming-in-my-memory show that was the last time I ever saw the
> English Beat, with Bow Wow Wow and some kids called R.E.M. opening) and I
> found a bit of what strikes me as revisionist history: the Alarm's website
> claims that their set was cancelled because of the weather, specifically
> saying that they were unable to play on the day of the show due to the
> rain. On the other hand, my memory is that the Alarm started their set
> and were booed off after only a couple songs, because the crowd was
> exceedingly cranky due to the general cold and wetness. It's truly
> testament to U2's power as a live act that they started off with a crowd
> that was basically out for blood, or as out for blood as a Boulder crowd
> can be (what can I say, it's a mellow place), and they turned the entire
> vibe around. As crap as many U2 records have been in the nearly quarter
> century since then, I've never entirely dismissed them because of that
> memory.
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