All The Concerts & Festivals I’ve Ever Been To (That I Can Remember)

2012

May 14, 2012 – Rammstein (Tacoma Dome – Tacoma, WA)

April 28, 2012 – Zeds Dead (Showbox Sodo – Seattle, WA)

April 20-22, 2012 – Coachella (Indio, CA)

Guns N’ Roses, Key Arena, 2011 Part I: The Before

I’ve known about this show for a little while, but honestly I just didn’t have any interest.  And it’s NOT because I’m some kind of purist who won’t acknowledge the band without Slash, Duff, and the rest.  Let’s face it, Slash is super-talented, but he’s not the be-all, end-all of guitarists.

It’s mostly just because … I’ve never really been a fan of Guns N’ Roses live.

The Bands I Grew Up With

I’m convinced I’m going to get a little older and I’m going to forget everything I used to know.  Alzheimer’s doesn’t necessarily run in my family (as far as I know), but I have a poor memory as it is.  If I don’t chronicle these types of things, they’ll be lost forever.

One day, I’d like to look back on my writing – having forgotten everything I’ve ever experienced and ever written about – and smile with a twinkle in my eye.  Oh yeah, I remember that …

Here’s a list of bands I grew up adoring.  My musical heyday ranges from probably 1988 through probably 1994.  Oh sure, bands have come after; just like I eventually came to appreciate bands that came before.  But, this window, this is where it’s at.

These bands aren’t necessarily my FAVORITE bands, but they’re among them.  And some of them probably are.  I’m using my iPod to help out with this, because if I tried to go off of my memory alone, I’d surely leave out a few.

Poorly Titled Music Project

I don’t really know what to call this yet, so it’s currently untitled.

For a while there, I’d say from the time I was 7 to … I guess I’d say my last year of college, I was a pretty rabid music fan.  If I had to outline my trajectory, I’d say it started with hard rock of the late 80s (Guns N’ Roses, Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, Motley Crue, Skid Row, etc.), continued on with the Alternative sound of the early 90s (Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Nine Inch Nails, Smashing Pumpkins, Red Hot Chili Peppers), worked its way into heavy metal (Metallica, Pantera, Ozzy Osbourne, AC/DC), worked its way backward into classic rock (Jimi Hendrix, Creedence, Cream, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, old Aerosmith, old Alice Cooper) with a smattering of hip hop (Notorious B.I.G., Wu-Tang Clan, Tupac, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg).  As I got into my later teenage years and early 20s, my taste expanded to old and new punk, jazz, progressive rock, post rock, electronica; but I still found room for some of the newer “garage” type rock of The Strokes, White Stripes, the Hives, and some of the more, I dunno, melodious types of stuff like Franz Ferdinand, Interpol, Arcade Fire, the Decemberists, etc.