One of my favourite... I almost said Nunavut bloggers but I won't qualify it. One of my favourite bloggers is Townie Bastard. He has an engaging writing style and, heck, I come from a small town on the prairies, who doesn't want to read about curling.
While not strickly a meme, I'm going to treat his recent post on concerts as one.
1) What is the first rock concert you ever went to?
Actually I have a rather nebulous answer (go figure) because on one hand I'm not sure, and two I have one that, while not strictly the first, it is the one I consider to be the first, partially because I didn't go with the rest of my family.
The first rock concert I went to was either Roy Orbison or The Stampeders (I can hear my brother shouting his approval right now, or maybe he doesn't want people to know that he was once The Stampeders greatest fan). Both were in Yorkton Saskatchewan, hotbed of the rock world. I really enjoyed them but man I wish I realized back then the genius that was Roy Orbison. I'm pretty amazed that I get to say I actually saw him perform. What a voice!
But truly I consider Bachman-Turner Overdrive at the Winnipeg Arena in 1975 my first rock concert. Final year in High School and I got to stay in Winnipeg by myself and miss the first day of school. Plus it had one of those memories that last all your life, the girl in the bus depot.
2) What is the best rock concert you've seen?
Townie actually cheated and named several, but really needs to pin it down to one. Which is hard because many of the concerts were "best" in their own special way. Take the BTO concert above for instance. I've been to a lot of great concerts, not for a long long while, but I've been to a lot of them. I think the last concert I was at was Dire Straits, and that was, wow, at least twelve years ago. Many of the best "concerts" I was at, technically weren't concerts. Those magical nights in a bar listening to bands that should have been destined for greatness, but were heading to obscurity. So how do you pick the best concert from the likes of The Who, The Doobie Brothers, Dire Straits, Jethro Tull, Pat Benetar, SuperTramp, Meat Loaf, Pat Methany (not rock I realize but god what a concert), Muddy Waters (the Blues count, they gave birth to Rock), Chris De Burgh, etc.
For sheer entertainment value Meat Loaf was hard to beat, plus as a bonus he stood outside the venue before the show talking to fans. Supertramp and Jethro Tull were amazing both musically and visually. Pat Methany in an outdoor venue at the Montreal Jazz Festival was magic, pure magic. But the best? Pretty hard to nail down. Forced to choose I'd have to say... ...
George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers. Pantages Theatre in Winnipeg, sometime in early 80s. Everything a concert should be about, music, energy and fun. They're back in Winnipeg on May 23rd.
3) Tag you're it.
I'm going to tag four people... Kate Nova, nuthatch, Arctic Hound, and Megan. And anyone else who wants to try.
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