Omg

Off the Record (San Diego) - just before I started working their I heard the 
first album by Dexy's Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels 
- till this day the opening of the album where it mimics the turning of the 
dial until you get to Kevin's voice "Big Jimmy!" -the horns, the 
passion..the drama..

The Troubador (Los Angeles) - during a Pop event (maybe Poptopia?) - first 
time I saw Ultimate Fakebook - blew my mind (because everyone thought that 
Ultimate Fakebook was going to be Redd Kross - but then these three nerdy 
guys from Manhattan Kansas blew us all away and you should have seen 
everyone run for the merch table in the lobby as soon as their set was done

Chris Shannon's apartment (Berkeley) - Sitting in the mathematical 
economist's apartment grading final exams for Intermediate Micro Theory (for 
which I was the GA) and listening for the first Uncle Tupelo album played 
loudly - changed my life-she and her husband were from Kansas City so that 
explains the connection.

so many more..so many more..

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