082213 Black Sabbath, Vancouver, BC
M’lady and I had been circuiting through the United States seeing a cornucopia of concerts (of course) and we had one more show left on our itinerary…
Category: Ticket Stories
082117 Guns N’ Roses, Ottawa, ON
On August 21st, 2017, as my regular morning bike ride took me past Lansdowne Park it occurred to me I had only seen Guns N’ Roses once, and that had been twenty-five years before. So when I arrived home and saw that ticket prices had dropped to just $50 for the cheap seats (+40% in fees) I bit…
081913 Chihuly Garden/Space Needle, Seattle, WA
I don’t recall when or how I became a fan of Dale Chihuly’s work…
081893 Neil Young with Booker T and the MG’s/Pearl Jam/Soundgarden/Blues Traveler, Toronto, ON
Blues Traveler, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and the great Neil Young who was fronting Booker T and the MG’s, all in an outdoor stadium on a beautiful day; it was a dreamy lineup…
081718 Curveball III, Watkins Glen, NY
Amazingly enough, when m’lady and I awoke on the morning of August 17th, 2018 we still didn’t have a plan…
081618 Curveball II, Watkins Glen, NY
When I woke up in my tent on August 16th, 2018 life was looking pretty good…
081518 Curveball I, Watkins Glen, NY
August 15th, 2018 was a very big day for m’lady and I…
081408 Don Ross and Andy McKee/Vieux Farke Touré/Finest Kind/D Rangers, Ottawa, ON
I saw lots of great music over the course of the 2008 Ottawa Folk Festival, including a veritable festival unto itself on August 14th, 2008, the first night of the festivities…
081113 Willie Nelson/Red Hot Chili Peppers/The Foals/Kurt Vile and the Violators/Dawes/Fishbone, San Francisco, CA
The third and final day of the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco was packed with stuff I wanted to see…
081009 ACDC, Ottawa, ON
On August 10th, 2009 I drove out to the Corel Centre (or whatever) to see AC/DC. This was my second time seeing the Scottish/Australian rockers and with the blissful electrifying joy of that first AC/DC experience still ringing in my ears more than a decade later I was super-excited to have the band elevate me to a rock and roll pinnacle once again…
