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Reminiscing and reflecting on concerts and life
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Discovering Teenage Freedom and Feeling through Live Music Five days ago, I stood in a sea of people as the lights went out, and I lived a new experience. It was the first concert I had ever attended. Friday I went to my second. Man, what a week! My brother Hunter, my cousin Cody, and…
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I’m 16 years old and I’ve got a driver’s license. My first real taste of freedom. I could go anywhere but, honestly, I’m afraid of going East of the western suburbs. I’ve got a part-time job flipping burgers which keeps a couple of bucks in my pocket. I’m socially aloof, friendly with my peers from…
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Led Zeppelin disbanded in 1980, the year before I was born. They had a couple of botched reunion shows during that decade, but the thought of a full tour with members of the original lineup seemed like a long shot. Now, here, June 12th, 1998, the biggest tour of the summer is in Minneapolis. Jimmy…
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Thoughts from a Vampire Weekend concert Manhattan in winter, Montauk in summer, the hipsters of the mid-aughts. No wonder Vampire Weekend had a song on the soundtrack to “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Adventure.” Art school kids that were TCFS. Their audience has aged right along with them. Most are married now; some have kids. A…
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What did I just witness? Was that the most incredible concert I’ve ever attended or a waste of two hours? And I mean two hours on the dot, perfectly timed out. The time listed on the ticket was 8:00 p.m., and they hit the stage exactly at 8:00 p.m. and left the stage at precisely…
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