061697 G3: Steve Vai/Joe Satriani/Michel Cusson/Robert Fripp, Montreal, QC
G3 was the title of a guitar wankfest tour that featured the crème de la crème of ’80’s mile-a-minute big-hair modal shredders…
Category: Ticket Stories
061595 Grateful Dead/Bob Dylan, Highgate, VT
June 15th, 1995 was the day I graduated from Carleton University, so to celebrate I went to see Dylan and the Dead in Highgate, Vermont…
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…
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…
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…
061104 Lynx vs Skychiefs, Ottawa, ON
To date this is the last baseball game I’ve attended…
061002 Beau Dixon, Guelph, ON
Beau Dixon was the lead singer/rhythm guitarist/organ player for a rather remarkable Ottawa band from the early ’90’s called Freeway Band. These guys coagulated the burgeoning Ottawa hippie music scene with lineups around the block at every single gig they played and they were barely out of high school…
060907 Ween, Montreal, QC
Around this era in my life I had a strange habit: whenever I would meet an artist after a show that I enjoyed I would make a point of including something negative about their show among my gushing accolades…
060813 The Book of Mormon, Toronto, ON
I suppose all comedy is offensive…
060700 NACO featuring Michala Petri plays Bach and Telemann, Ottawa, ON
Somewhere along the way I picked up a love for Bach…
