Daily ticket stories
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…
Once I started going to see live music there was basically no stopping me aside from the fact that I lived in a geographical area that was largely ignored by musicians big and small. With such a dearth of options I ended up jumping at even the barest inkling of live music…
Boxing Day has got to be the most boring day of the year…
This was by no means my first time visiting the Capitol Theatre, no sir…
In 1984 the Pope’s tour was making a stop in Moncton and there was no way a young whipper-snapper like me was going to miss a show like this…
The band that was drawing the crowd on August 1st, 1989 was the Blushing Brides, a Rolling Stones tribute act that I had seen a time or two before…
There’s a chance that April 10th, 1988 was the strangest night of live entertainment I’ve seen…
On February 6th, 1989 I saw Cheap Trick at the Moncton Coliseum, a band I had coveted since hearing their incredible live recording of I Want You To Want Me back when I was maybe ten years old…
On February 1st, 1988 I went to Moncton’s Club Cosmopolitan (The Cosmo, we called it) to see Canadian non-icons FM in concert. It’s not like I was a big fan of the band…
On January 17th, 1987 I huddled in the cold with my back pressed up against the front door of the Moncton Coliseum. I arrived two, maybe three hours early for the show and was among the first in line to get in. Back then I was a rail-hugger…
Todd Man Out 