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(EP 7, no.2) Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band w/ Toby Beau: Still the Same, London Gardens, London, Ontario, Canada, Friday May 19, 1978
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Three years after Roxy Music, I finally make it to a second, proper live show. While the Roxy show kicked off a new era in my life—concertgoing—this gig instead closed an era. This episode is less about Bob Seger and more about discovering punk rock and new wave as the old wave left the building for me. I no longer wanted still the same. Tune in for imbibing masses, gesticulating specks, and wanting “completely different.”
Read the original blog post from 2010 here.
(EP 13, no.5) NFG’s Second Annual Halloween Bash with The Regulators and Sinners: What’s In The City, Polish Hall, London, Ontario, Canada, Friday November 2, 1979
My last live show of the 1970s was an even smaller and more intimate gig than The Jam’s Toronto concert seven months earlier, featuring a...
(EP 12, no.4) The Jam w/The Dwight Twilley Band: This Is the Modern World, Rex Danforth Theatre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Tuesday April 10, 1979
This was a seriously thrilling gig from UK Mod-Punks The Jam, six months after the Elvis Costello show in November 1978 (EP8: This Year’s...
(EP 11, no.20a) You Won’t See Me: 20 Acts I Wish I’d Seen (1920s-1980) featuring Billie Holiday, The Sex Pistols, Fela Kuti, Frank Sinatra, The Beatles, and more.
Since this was Covid Summer of 2020—The Summer Without Live Music—I have paused my story and am presenting the second of two podcast...
(EP 10, no.8) Heatwave Festival at 40 with Talking Heads, Elvis Costello, B-52s, Pretenders, Rockpile, Teenage Head & more: Once In A Lifetime, Mosport Park, Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada, Saturday Aug. 23, 1980
The legendary Heatwave Festival happened 40 years ago this weekend: August 23 1980. 100,000 people turned up for the Talking Heads, Elvis...
(EP 9B, no.20b) Waiting in Vain: 22 Performances I Missed 1980-2020 (Part Two nos.9-22 with U2, Arcade Fire, The Grateful Dead, Simon & Garfunkel, Lollapalooza 2004, Bonnie Raitt, & more)
Here is Part Two of my look back at 22 Performances I Missed.Since the Covid Summer of 2020 is also The Summer Without Live Music, I am...
(EP 9A, no.20b) Waiting in Vain: 22 Performances I Missed 1980-2020 (Part One nos.1-8 with The Clash, Bob Marley, XTC, Sonic Youth, Nick Cave, & more)
Since the Covid Summer of 2020 is also The Summer Without Live Music, I am going to pause my story and instead present two sets of podcast...
(EP 8, no.3) Elvis Costello & The Attractions w/The Battered Wives: This Year’s Model, Alumni Hall, UWO, London, Ontario, Canada, Monday Nov. 6, 1978
It’s six months on from the Bob Seger concert in Episode 7, and my world had fully transformed. The old wave was (mostly) banished from...
Three years after Roxy Music, I finally make it to a second, proper live show. While the Roxy show kicked off a new era in my...
(EP 6, no.175) Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man, Scotiabank Place, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Friday Dec. 7, 2012
After giving up hope that I would ever get to see him live, Leonard Cohen goes back out on the road for a final North American leg of a...
(EP 5, no.104) David Bowie w/Polyphonic Spree: Never Get Old, Corel Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Friday April 2, 2004
David Bowie comes to Ottawa on his A Reality Tour along with the culty, psychedelic choir stylings of The Polyphonic Spree. This last of...
(EP 4, no.76) Lollapalooza ’92 w/Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ministry, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, & Lush: Flower, Molson Park, Barrie, Ontario, Canada, Wednesday Aug. 5, 1992
This podcast looks back on the first post-Nirvana-explosion Lollapalooza hitting the Toronto region with your host Various Artists attending...
(EP 3, no.7) Ramones w/The Demics: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow, Centennial Hall, London, Ontario, Canada, Tuesday May 20, 1980
After kickstarting punk rock in NYC in the mid-70s, the Ramones finally made it to London, Ontario, along with London’s own...
(EP 2, no.1) Roxy Music with Devotion: The Thrill of It All, London Arena, London, Ontario, Canada, Saturday Feb. 8, 1975
45 years ago from the day of this podcast, on Saturday February the 8th, 1975, Roxy Music glamorously touched down in London, Ontario,...
(EP 1, no.0) Ticket to Ride: An Introduction to My Life in Concert.com
In this introduction to the My Life in Concert.com series, I discuss why and how music and live shows became such an obsessive, integral,...
(EP 13, no.5) NFG’s Second Annual Halloween Bash with The Regulators and Sinners: What’s In The City, Polish Hall, London, Ontario,...
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(EP 12, no.4) The Jam w/The Dwight Twilley Band: This Is the Modern World, Rex Danforth Theatre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Tuesday April 10,...
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(EP 11, no.20a) You Won’t See Me: 20 Acts I Wish I’d Seen (1920s-1980) featuring Billie Holiday, The Sex Pistols, Fela Kuti, Frank...
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