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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.
November 4, 2025 Chalk Circle / Rush / Ticket Stories

110487 Rush/Chalk Circle, Moncton, NB

On November 4th, 1987 Rush played the Moncton Coliseum with Chalk Circle opening the show.  I was beyond excited…

November 3, 2025 Alice In Chains / Ticket Stories / Van Halen

110391 Van Halen/Alice In Chains, Montreal, QC

This show had been a long time coming for me…

November 2, 2025 Frank Zappa / Ike Willis / The Band From Utopia / Ticket Stories

110295 The Band From Utopia, Montreal, QC

On November 2nd, 1995 I drove to Montreal to see one of Frank Zappa’s former conglomerations playing under the nicked title Band From Utopia at a pretty nifty nightclub/venue called the Spectrum…

November 1, 2025 Robben Ford / Sonny Landreth / Ticket Stories

110195 Robben Ford/Sonny Landreth, Ottawa, ON

On November 1st, 1995 I went to Barrymore’s Music Hall to see a performance by Robben Ford, with Sonny Landreth opening the show…

October 31, 2025 Ticket Stories / Ween

103103 Ween, Burlington, VT

This ticket is from the single greatest concert I’ve seen my favourite live band perform…

October 30, 2025 Bob Dylan / Brian Blade / Joni Mitchell / Ticket Stories

103098 Bob Dylan/Joni Mitchell, Ottawa, ON

If I’m not mistaken, October 30th, 1998 was the only time I ever pre-possessed actual front row tickets to an arena concert…

October 29, 2025 Beau Dixon / Freeway Band / Rainy Day Prophets / Tarig Abubakar and the AfroNubians / Ticket Stories

102994 Tarig Abubakar and the AfroNubians/Freeway Band/Rainy Day Prophets, Gatineau, QC

When Tarig Abubakar and his AfroNubians started playing the bar exploded in ecstatic glee…

October 28, 2025 Travel Logs

Perulog I: Day Drinking in Lima, Newark, and San Francisco

After three days of cancelled flights I finally got on a plane to South America…

October 27, 2025 Bill Hicks / Cathy Lee Gifford / comedy / David Letterman / Paul Reed Smith Band / Paul Shaffer / Ticket Stories

102792 Late Night with David Letterman/The Paul Reed Smith Band, New York, NY

Back in 1992 I went to New York City to see Paul Shaffer…er…I mean David Letterman… 

October 26, 2025 Ticket Stories / uncategorized

102602 Elements, Victoria, BC

All was going well until…

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