061904 Phish, Saratoga Springs, NY
I’ll tell you what I remember about June 19th, 2004…
Category: Ticket Stories
061895 Grateful Dead/Bob Dylan, East Rutherford, NJ
At this point Jerry Garcia only had fourteen shows left in him…
061710 Phish, Hartford, CT
June 17th, 2010 was the first night of a two-night Phish run in Hartford, Connecticut. M’lady and I were staying with the Frayler’s…
061607 Sisters Euclid, Ottawa, ON
My friend’s wedding reception featured one of the most fun Sisters Euclid sets ever! In addition to tearing through a pile of their regular awesomeness that was quite familiar to most of us in the small, hand-picked crowd, the band tossed out a few fun nods to standard wedding band fare too…
061116 Must Stash Hat, Ottawa, ON
On June 11th, 2016 I rode my bike to Westboro in Ottawa’s west end to see Must Stash Hat in my friend’s backyard…
060913 The Rolling Stones, Montreal, QC
Sure I had seen the Rolling Stones 50th Anniversary show in Brooklyn back when it was just a five-show tour and I even got tickets for their Toronto show when they announced a proper North American tour, but this is The Rolling Stones, and Montreal is so close to Ottawa I just couldn’t pass it up…
060716 The Starfleet Academy Experience, Ottawa, ON
On June 7th, 2016 I returned to the Canadian Aviation and Space Museum for another romp through science fiction memorabilia masquerading as a museum exhibit, this one focussed on the Star Trek universe…
060604 moe./nero/Galactic/Xavier Rudd/Sweating Like Nixon, Buffalo, NY
The Pier Festival Grounds was a nice looking venue. It was on the water, sporting two stages and maybe five bars and several food stands…
060395 Ian Anderson, Toronto, ON
On June 3rd, 1995 I went to see Ian Anderson at Massey Hall in Toronto. It was a pretty unique setting for the Jethro Tull frontman; rather than leading one of the many lineups of his ever-morphing legendary rock band the singer/songwriter/flautist/everythingist was fronting a New Age ensemble in support of his recent album Divinities…
051605 Joel Plaskett Emergency, Ottawa, ON
The Tulip Fest used to be an excellent little addition to Ottawa’s wide offering of annual music…
