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| From | "John L. Micek" <jlmicek@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: it was 25 years ago today |
| Date | Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:49:05 -0400 |
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Very well-worn story ... but that's the EP that inaugurated my pop music
obsession.
25 years, eh??
Yikes!!
john
(who rang in his 38th natal anniversary this week, making him a wee lad of
13 when the "Red Rocks" concert happened)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: it was 25 years ago today
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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