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" To: Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 11:32 AM Subject: Re: it was 25 years ago today > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sam Smith" > To: "Audities" > 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 > >