041604 Tortoise, Ottawa, ON
The Capital Music Hall was a large venue right downtown on Ottawa’s Rideau Street, just across from Maverick’s…
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041309 Neil Young, Kingston, ON
I think the Neil Young concert on April 13th, 2009 was my first time in the K-Rock Centre and I soon found out that they didn’t quite have their act together yet…
040614 Mike Gordon, Burlington, VT
The Higher Ground people are famous for their tight security at the door and it always takes longer than you think it will to get it, no matter how many times I go through the process…
040491 Paul Simon, Ottawa, ON
April 4th, 1991 was my first time seeing the great, great Paul Simon. The show was relatively small, taking place in the 9,000 seat Ottawa Civic Centre just a short stroll from Carleton University’s campus…
040189 Metallica/Queensrÿche, Moncton, NB
When Metallica hit the stage they did so in a blistering cavalcade of open-E palm-muted sixteenth notes absolutely synched with Lars Ulrich’s double kick drum flams. Out of the gate they were undeniably the tightest band my young ears had ever heard and I was hooked in for the next two hours…
033093 Robby Krieger, Gatineau, QC
My only brush with The Doors came on March 30th, 1993 when Robbie Krieger played a very unlikely venue in Gatineau called Houblon. I went with my good friend Jojo and we had a whale of a time…
032795 Page and Plant/Rusted Root, Toronto, ON
March 27th, 1995 was the closest I’ve come to seeing Led Zeppelin, and that alone makes it a day of legend in this little concert life of mine…
032112 Van Halen/Kool & the Gang, Ottawa, ON
On March 21st, 2012 I drove thirty kilometres or so to my local arena to see Van Halen. I had seen the band in Montreal about five years previous and had a great time at the show so I was anxious for another chance to see Van Halen (almost) as they were intended to be seen…
031597 Big Sugar/Weeping Tile, Ottawa, ON
Big Sugar mounted the temporary stage and turned the boring, accordion-walled conference hall into a barrelhouse barroom with a guitar-driven blues-tinged slab of sound that was a mile thick…
022516 NACO plays Queen, Ottawa, ON
On February 25th, 2016 I went to the National Arts Centre for We Are The Champions: The Music Of Queen; despite the title of the show I knew exactly what I was in for…
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