Right now (Saturday night 11 pm EST), U2, with Bruce Springsteen sitting in, are performing "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For". The show repeats at 11:30 pm EST on VH1 and it's been pretty damned good so far. Inductees are Percy Sledge, The O'Jays, Buddy Guy, The Pretenders, and U2, among others.

I saw U2 back in 1981 -- they were an opening act then, and it was like "U-Who?" I was 13 years old that very day. Now I have tickets to see them again this November, and I'm really looking forward to it.

When I sit and think of it, I can scarcely believe both I and they are are still around! ;)

I'm taking earplugs this time, though -- the concert way back then was literally the loudest I've ever attended, hands down, and my ears were ringing for a solid week afterward!

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I'm taking earplugs this time, though -- the concert way back then was literally the loudest I've ever attended, hands down, and my ears were ringing for a solid week afterward!

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You've obviously never seen Ted Nugenthttp://www.hobbytalk.com/bbs1/images/icons/icon7.gif ZZ Top are preaty freakin' loud too.
"Where'd we park?"
"Huh?"
"What?"

Haven't seen either of those live, but I will say that at the one I mentioned, I had a friend with me. If I cupped my hands around his ear and screamed into it from three inches away, he couldn't hear me. I kid you not.

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I saw U2 back in 1981 -- they were an opening act then, and it was like "U-Who?" I was 13 years old that very day. Now I have tickets to see them again this November, and I'm really looking forward to it.

Eep!
That was the J. Geils Band show at the TLCCC, wasn't it?
In one of the truly rare great luck moments in my life, I left after U2 to go sit in on the rehearsal of a band that a few friends of mine were in about 4 blocks away from the Civic Center.
2 hours later, Bono, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen walked in and everyone who had an instrument (I borrowed a guitar) sat in with them to do some classic tunes including "Wild Thing," and "Gloria" (by THEM, not the U2 song).
The finale was a 12 minute version of "I will Follow."
Unforgettable.
AT

Eep!
That was the J. Geils Band show at the TLCCC, wasn't it?
Yes! I remember that the JGB song "Centerfold" was the number one song that weekend, according to Casey Kasem. It was, I believe, the first concert I ever attended.

Curious ... do you remember it being as loud as I do? I've never been to another show that I perceived as being so loud, but maybe that one just made me partially deaf!
In one of the truly rare great luck moments in my life, I left after U2 to go sit in on the rehearsal of a band that a few friends of mine were in about 4 blocks away from the Civic Center.
2 hours later, Bono, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen walked in and everyone who had an instrument (I borrowed a guitar) sat in with them to do some classic tunes including "Wild Thing," and "Gloria" (by THEM, not the U2 song).
The finale was a 12 minute version of "I will Follow."
Unforgettable.
AT
I can believe that. What a great story!

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That's a very cool story, Anthony. I partied with Warren Zevon after a show one time - but that's not the same thing.

That's a very cool story, Anthony. I partied with Warren Zevon after a show one time - but that's not the same thing.

Small world, I got to party one night with Warren when he was opening for Jackson Browne on the "America" tour in Atlanta. He was a charming, gracious guy, and a terrific unabashed storyteller. And he sure did like to party back then! I got some great photos of him and I and my SO at the time, with Jackson Browne looking on disaprovingly in the background!

Small world, I got to party one night with Warren when he was opening for Jackson Browne on the "America" tour in Atlanta. He was a charming, gracious guy, and a terrific unabashed storyteller. And he sure did like to party back then! I got some great photos of him and I and my SO at the time, with Jackson Browne looking on disaprovingly in the background!

Ha!! This was on the "Excitable Boy" tour. He kept bumming cigs off everybody and imitating Richard Belzer, who was his opening act. He was damned funny and having the time of his life during that period. It bit him later, as it usually does. I saw him solo in a small club twice after he embraced sobriety and he still put on a great show. He was a unique guy and a unique artist. He and Hunter S. Thompson were pretty tight apparently.

He and Hunter S. Thompson were pretty tight apparently.

I didn't know that, but have no problem believing it. I can't even imagine what a evening with Zevon and Hunter would be like, but I'd imagine it'd be real interesting and you'd have some really incredible stories afterward.

If you could remember anything!

Curious ... do you remember it being as loud as I do? I've never been to another show that I perceived as being so loud, but maybe that one just made me partially deaf!


I don't recall it being deafening, but it was quite stentorian... of course, I left right after U2. Maybe J. Geils was the main offender.
The band I went to see practice was called the Slut Boys... do you remember them at all? I used to hang out and sit in with a bunch of local bands; The Deraylers, The Guise, The Know It Alls... Tallahassee had a really good music scene in the early 80's.
I met Warren Zevon after seeing him in a small club here in Atlanta in the late 80's... he was sober - so less fun, but still a pretty cool guy.
He didn't draw much of a crowd, which must have been humbling for him at the time. The show was just him and a piano, so it was very cool.
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I don't recall it being deafening, but it was quite stentorian... of course, I left right after U2. Maybe J. Geils was the main offender.It is fading into the mists of prehistory now, so I can say only that were no less loud than U2.
The band I went to see practice was called the Slut Boys... do you remember them at all?
The name is vaguely familiar, but then again I was 13 that day. ;) And at that time I didn't live here, either. There has never been a shortage of local and regional bands here -- just a couple of years ago there was a real, honest-to-goodness blues bar waaaaay out off Centerville Road, surrounded by nothing but acres of pasture!

The only local band I know of that ever actually "made it" was Creed. A guy I used to work with was a childhood friend of Creed's drummer, and when my brother was gravely ill a few years ago, he arranged an autographed copy of their first album and a card as well. Went out to the guy's house here once (they were gone and our mutual friend was house-sitting) -- there was stereo and TV equipment in the living room that I honestly have no idea what it was supposed to actually do, and I only know it was music/video-related because of context. Those were some seriously high-end toys. It is also the only time I've ever seen actual music awards laying around, other than in a Hard Rock Café. Surreal.

Oh, yeah -- he and his wife also had the largest bed I've ever seen in my life. Where the heck do you get sheets for a bed that is significantly larger than "king size"?

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Bed, Bath & DAYAMN?