I saw Ladysmith Black Mambazo... And It Was Mellow Like Jell-O™
Posted by Benjamin Holcomb in Music, Worldbeat on 07. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
The best part about this show was seeing it with my father. I only saw two shows with my dad (the other being 10,000 Maniacs). This show happened in 1988, my senior year in high school. I wasn’t a big fan of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, but everybody knew who they were; Their collaboration with Paul [...]
I saw Laurie Anderson... And She Signed My Ticket!
Posted by Benjamin Holcomb in Alternative, Music on 05. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
This was an interesting show for me. I bought tickets with the following thoughts: a) I was a huge fan of Laurie Anderson’s “Strange Angels” (1989) and; b) I wanted to hear her music from earlier albums I’d never heard.
Neither ticket-purchasing criteria mattered. This was a spoken-word tour, devoid of any music. Not that I [...]
I saw REO Speedwagon... And It Was Like a RenFair!
Posted by Benjamin Holcomb in Music, Rock on 29. Jun, 2009 | 2 Comments
1987 was my Junior year in high school. I remember really liking REO Speedwagon when I was in, like, elementary school. That would be around the time of REO’s “Hi Infidelity” which featured killer tracks like, “Don’t Let Him Go,” “Keep On Loving You,” and “Take It on the Run.”
I’m pretty sure REO had a [...]
