061893 Grateful Dead/Sting, Chicago, IL
June 18th, 1993 was the last night of my first first-ever Grateful Dead mini-tour…
Daily ticket stories
June 18th, 1993 was the last night of my first first-ever Grateful Dead mini-tour…
We were all packed into the theatre when the show began…
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…
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…
On June 14th, 1997 I drove with a crew of friends to Montreal to see a free James Brown concert…
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…
It might have taken a lifetime but on June 12th, 2015 the hype finally got me out to a U2 concert…
To date this is the last baseball game I’ve attended…
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…
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…