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Author: Todd Snelgrove

I've been having a lot of fun these past fifty-odd years. I've busked and bicycled through more places I can count, taught music and caught dengue fever, managed a band that toured all over North America and worked with Canada's National Orchestra for two decades. I've traveled countless miles to see a thousand concerts, played hundreds of gigs, won in Vegas and lost in Estonia, worked as a concert promoter, university instructor, janitor, and entertainment writer, seen the Grateful Dead and hiked the Dogon Valley, ran the stairs of the CN Tower and pedalled across Scandinavia once and Newfoundland twice. I've visited the graves of Alexander the Great and the great Robert Johnson, drunk excessively with some of the best and worst people you can imagine, and I've slept in some very, very weird places. Several years ago I started writing some of it down, and much of it is collected here for your perusal.
June 18, 2025 Faster Pussycat / Steve Vai / Ticket Stories / Whitesnake

061890 Whitesnake/Faster Pussycat, Ottawa, ON

Faster Pussycat opened the show and if I had bothered to pay them any mind I would have likely been rewarded with a much better show than Whitesnake could ever deliver…

June 17, 2025 Junkhouse / Ticket Stories

061794 Junkhouse, Saint John, NB

Junkhouse were a hard working ass-kickin’ band that made a small smoky bar feel like a concert arena…

June 16, 2025 David Copperfield / magic / Ticket Stories

061691 David Copperfield, Ottawa, ON

There is no bigger rock star in the world of magic than David Copperfield…

June 15, 2025 Bill Kreutzmann / Bob Weir / Grateful Dead / Jerry Garcia / Mickey Hart / Phil Lesh / Sting / Ticket Stories

061593 Grateful Dead/Sting, Louisville, KY

The Grateful Dead concerts in Kentucky were happening at a place called Freedom Hall.  It sure didn’t look like a “hall” to me…

June 14, 2025 James Brown / Ticket Stories

061497 James Brown, Montreal, QC

On June 14th, 1997 I drove with a crew of friends to Montreal to see a free James Brown concert…

June 13, 2025 sports / Ticket Stories

061316 Redblacks vs Blue Bombers, Ottawa, ON

On June 13th, 2016 I cycled down the canal to Lansdowne Park (was it still called that?) to see the Ottawa Redblacks put on a CFL performance with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers…

June 12, 2025 Ticket Stories / U2

061215 U2, Montreal, QC

It might have taken a lifetime but on June 12th, 2015 the hype finally got me out to a U2 concert…

June 11, 2025 Grateful Dead / Jerry Garcia / Sting / Ticket Stories

061193 Grateful Dead/Sting, Thornville, OH

Behold, here is the ticket stub from my first Grateful Dead concert… 

June 10, 2025 Bob Wiseman / Ticket Stories

061095 Bob Wiseman, Ottawa, ON

This marked the first time I saw a full-on Bob Wiseman show…

June 9, 2025 Petra / Ticket Stories

060984 Petra, Etobicoke, ON

I did not go to this concert…

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