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…
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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…
021810 Neil Young Tribute, Vancouver, BC
A congregation of eclecticity under the helm of an equally eclectic record producer best known for directing tribute concerts to an incomparably eclectic string of artists that includes Tim Buckley, Randy Newman, Bill Withers, Walt Disney and the Marquis de Sade…
021011 Jerry Lee Lewis/Frankie Ford, Naples, FL
There could be no better way to end the Rock & Roll Field Trip than a concert featuring the great Jerry Lee Lewis…
020919 Kevin Breit, Ottawa, ON
After a stellar show the night before (following a less-than-stellar show the night before that) on February 9th, 2019 I committed to see Kevin Breit’s third and final show at the Ottawa Jazz Festival’s brief winter fest…
020717 Drive-By Truckers, Montreal, QC
On February 7th, 2017 m’lady and I drove to Montreal to see the Drive-By Truckers. Before the show we had a drink in our hotel lobby bar and decided to walk to the show. It was fairly mild for a February night and the walk was relatively short and quite pleasant…
012908 Bob Wiseman/Catherine MacLellan, Ottawa, ON
On January 29th, 2008 I walked down to Sparks Street for a taping of Fuse, a now-defunct Saturday afternoon radio show…
012806 John Geggie, Cuong Vu, and Kevin Breit, Ottawa, ON
When I was in my first year of university one of my profs arranged a jazz trio to play for one of our classes. I only remember one member of the trio – John Geggie – but I remember his performance that afternoon in my mind’s eye as vividly as if it were yesterday…
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