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…
Tag: live music
040516 Stewart Copeland, Ottawa, ON
I was so excited to see Stewart Copeland play at the Dominion Chalmers Church…
040285 Public Relations, Toronto, ON
This is another one of the increasingly common “exceptions” that are creeping into these ticket stories…
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…
033190 Toronto/The Gutterboys, Ottawa, ON
The Gutterboys was my first taste of professional music…
032402 Herbie Hancock/The New Deal, Montreal, QC
On March 24th, 2002 I witnessed a jamband fiesta at Montreal’s Metropolis at the hands of Herbie Hancock…
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…
030809 Phish, Hampton, VA
Newly discovered notes written in the hours following the final show of Phish’s comeback run inspired me to rewrite this tiny slice of my own personal history in order to bring it a little closer to where it actually was, is, and should be…
030709 Phish, Hampton, VA
This seemingly redundant entry for the middle night of Phish’s 2009 hiatus-ending weekend in Hampton is in fact wholly different from the rather distorted memory-trip I stumbled through when I first tried to capture the experience in pixels…
030498 Primus, Ottawa, ON
Primus is just so downright unique and chock full of Zappa-esque surprises it was impossible for them to lose my attention…
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