030998 Gov’t Mule/Big Sugar/Pothole, Montreal, QC
I’m pretty sure that March 9th, 1998 was the first time I saw Warren Haynes’ and Allen Woody’s Allman Bros. splinter group…
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I’m pretty sure that March 9th, 1998 was the first time I saw Warren Haynes’ and Allen Woody’s Allman Bros. splinter group…
On June 14th, 1997 I drove with a crew of friends to Montreal to see a free James Brown concert. Not to be confused with a “Free James Brown” concert…
It’s not very often that I get too excited to see I band I am almost completely ignorant to, but I was with Tool…
Cirque was debuting their new show at home in Montreal before unleashing it on the world for the next 10+ years. This one had a Mexican theme, which might sound a bit strange as the franchise has a permanent show in Mexico…
On November 2nd, 1995 I drove to Montreal to see one of Frank Zappa’s former conglomerations playing under the nicked title Band From Utopia at a pretty nifty nightclub/venue called the Spectrum…
On August 6th, 2009 I drove to Montreal to see one of the greatest musicians in the world. And Bela Fleck…
While MMW at Montreal’s best live venue might have drawn several of us to the city, it was the inclusion of both DJ Logic and John Scofield that filled the cars that night…
Sure I had seen the Rolling Stones 50th Anniversary show in Brooklyn back when it was just a five-show tour and I even got tickets for their Toronto show when they announced a proper North American tour, but this is The Rolling Stones, and Montreal is so close to Ottawa I just couldn’t pass it up…
On May 2nd, 2009 I drove from Ottawa to Montreal to see The Tragically Hip at Metropolis. Although Montreal has a lot of great small-to-midsized venues, when bands come to town that ought to be playing the Centre Bell but wants to play somewhere more intimate they always seem to book into Metropolis. The semi-regular opportunity to see arena-level bands in a nice, 2,000-person capacity balconied theatre easily pushes Metropolis to the top of my preferred Montreal concert halls…
On April 30th, 2010 I woke up in some hotel or another in Montreal following an orchestral Peter Gabriel concert at the big hockey rink downtown. I have no idea how I spent my day – though I suspect it involved a significant amount of poutine – but I know I spent my evening in the presence of one of my favourite rock guitar players, the great Mark Knopfler…