I started seeing bands play live in 1992 when I was 14 years old. I was lucky enough to have an older brother who introduced me to countless bands, was kind enough to take his younger sister with him to see those bands and was awesome enough to encourage my love of music. I'm sure Michael sometimes wished that I would not go with him or disappear but I looked up to him and he was stuck with me.
Throughout the years I've saved most of my ticket stubs in a box in chronological order with no purpose other than to remind me of bands I've seen and to allow me to be the nostalgic person that I tend to be. But now, thanks to the magical internet, I can put them out there for strangers to look at and judge my musical taste. Some of it isn't pretty and some of it is pretty rad. I'm going to try to remember who I went to shows with and any sort of connected story but my memory is occasionally foggy.
So, whomever might actually visit this page, this is the beginning.
My very first concert:
$8.90 to see a bunch of bands play!?!?! This was the 89x's summer festival, I guess called xxxing out the summer if you read the stub. 89x was Windsor's alternative rock station (when that actually meant something) that we were able to listen to in the metro Detroit area. My older brother, Michael, and I had purchased tickets in advance and traded Trompe Le Monde by the Pixies on cassette to a girl in the parking lot to get a third for my friend Megan.
The bands on the bill, as far as I can remember, were Goober and the Peas, Too Much Joy, Material Issue and Concrete Blonde. Being 14 years old I had to be home at some sort of reasonable hour so we couldn't stay for all of Concrete Blonde. I do remember being really excited to see Material Issue and really bummed that we couldn't see all of Concrete Blonde. In my mind there was some sort of crazy fire pit dance session after we left. This is probably far from the truth, or not.
Throughout the years I've saved most of my ticket stubs in a box in chronological order with no purpose other than to remind me of bands I've seen and to allow me to be the nostalgic person that I tend to be. But now, thanks to the magical internet, I can put them out there for strangers to look at and judge my musical taste. Some of it isn't pretty and some of it is pretty rad. I'm going to try to remember who I went to shows with and any sort of connected story but my memory is occasionally foggy.
So, whomever might actually visit this page, this is the beginning.
My very first concert:
$8.90 to see a bunch of bands play!?!?! This was the 89x's summer festival, I guess called xxxing out the summer if you read the stub. 89x was Windsor's alternative rock station (when that actually meant something) that we were able to listen to in the metro Detroit area. My older brother, Michael, and I had purchased tickets in advance and traded Trompe Le Monde by the Pixies on cassette to a girl in the parking lot to get a third for my friend Megan.
The bands on the bill, as far as I can remember, were Goober and the Peas, Too Much Joy, Material Issue and Concrete Blonde. Being 14 years old I had to be home at some sort of reasonable hour so we couldn't stay for all of Concrete Blonde. I do remember being really excited to see Material Issue and really bummed that we couldn't see all of Concrete Blonde. In my mind there was some sort of crazy fire pit dance session after we left. This is probably far from the truth, or not.
I was there as well! Charm Farm and Electronic Dream Factory played the main stage as well. The Hoolapoppers are listed as opening he show, but I didn't see them, so I have no idea if they played or we arrived late. I went mostly for Too Much Joy, walked away being a HUGE Goober and the Peas fan.
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