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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: it was 25 years ago today |
| Date | Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:32:23 -0400 |
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From: "Sam Smith" <sam@estreet.com>
To: "Audities" <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 10:34 AM
Subject: it was 25 years ago today
>I wasn't there, but if I had a time machine it's the first place I'd
>go: Red Rocks, for /the/ U2 show.
>
> Of course, one of my old roommates, who'd never HEARD of U2, he was
> there.
Me too. And let me tell you, it looked cool on MTV, but we were
freezing our collective nuts off out there!
I recently saw a bit of what I swear is historical revisionism about
this concert: a tour diary for the Alarm claims that their opening set
performance that day was cancelled due to the weather. Maybe I'm not
remembering this correctly, but I swear what really happened is that
they were bottled off the stage after a couple of songs. Until U2
came on stage, the general mood there was NOT pleasant.
Another one of the great concerts of my youth took place at Red Rocks
the week before, the fabled "one of these things is not like the
others" lineup of the English Beat (less than a month before they
split up), Bow Wow Wow and some little baby band from Georgia called
R.E.M.
S
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