• Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • WordPress
Skip to content

Todd Man Out

Daily ticket stories

  • Home
  • Ticket Stories
  • Travel Logs
  • Videos
  • Prosetry
  • Autographs & Memorabilia
  • About
  • Store
  • Contact

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 22, 2025 Phish / Ticket Stories

062295 Phish, Canandaigua, NY

On June 22nd, 1995 I rounded out a three-show run of Grateful Dead concerts south of the border with my second-ever Phish concert…

June 21, 2025 Branford Marsalis / Ticket Stories

062107 Branford Marsalis, Ottawa, ON

Is there a bigger name in jazz than “Marsalis”?…

June 20, 2025 The Tragically Hip / Ticket Stories

062000 The Tragically Hip, Montreal, QC

This was that era when The Hip could sell out any arena in the country so I was thrilled to see them in the relatively small St. Denis Theatre…  

June 19, 2025 Motley Crue / Tesla / Ticket Stories

061990 Mötley Crüe/Tesla, Ottawa, ON

June 19th, 1990 was the second night of two consecutive evenings of hair-metal at the Ottawa Civic Centre…

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 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…

Posts pagination

«Previous Posts 1 … 42 43 44 45 46 … 134 Next Posts»

Recent Comments

Unknown's avatar083124 Big Space/Kel… on 083124 Beyond Van Gogh, St. Jo…
Unknown's avatarAnonymous on 120600 The Tragically Hip, Ott…
Unknown's avatarPeru: January, 2005… on 110818 Bob Weir & Wolf Bro…
Todd Snelgrove's avatarTodd Snelgrove on 062903 The Dead/moe./Willie Ne…
Unknown's avatarAnonymous on 062903 The Dead/moe./Willie Ne…
  • Home
  • Ticket Stories
  • Travel Logs
  • Videos
  • Prosetry
  • Autographs & Memorabilia
  • About
  • Store
  • Contact
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Todd Man Out
    • Join 136 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Todd Man Out
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
Loading Comments...