Setting it up is simpler than I thought it would be. I guess I haven't paid enough attention to MJ's iPod routine. I pop a CD in the computer, choose the songs I want to have on the iPod, click Import, and then move on to the next CD. The next time I plug in the iPod, all of those songs automatically get transferred over. Pretty slick.
Sorting through CDs has triggered a few music memories:
- One day not long after Mambo No. 5 hit the charts, I was driving through the sunshine with MJ by my side. That song came on and we mamboed our way down the freeway. When it ended, I said, "Play it again! Play it again!" And the DJ came on and said, "Let's play it again!" And he did!
- There was a time when a very young daughter of mine preferred Britney Spears' cover of "Satisfaction" to the Rolling Stones original. I'm happy to report that she's developed a little taste. She will remain nameless because she finds this past indiscretion terribly embarrassing. As she should!
- My first concert was AC/DC's "For Those About to Rock..." tour, highlighted by booming cannons and Angus antics. My favorite AC/DC album was (and continues to be) Back in Black, but it was a very good show. Kudos to my mom for letting her sweet young daughter (really!) start off at a hard-rock event, especially in the questionable company of my disreputable cousin Glen.
- MJ's first concert took place when she was much younger, but her escort was much more reliable: Daddy. They went to see Christina Aguilera. Her first concert with me was a Backstreet Boys one, at which I was pleasantly surprised by the entertainment value.
- Chloe's first concert was a year ago: EndFest, the all day alternative-rock festival, with headliners the Red Hot Chili Peppers. MJ was her concert buddy, and they didn't get into any trouble that I heard about. (Of course, my mom probably still doesn't know everything about that AC/DC concert...)
- I don't know what Frank's first concert was! I'll have to ask him.
- The first concert I went to with Frank was, I think, the Neville Brothers. We saw them together a few times. At one show, we got to talk to Art, the coolest Neville. (Cyril is a close second.) During a break, he came over to the bar near where we were standing to get something to drink, and we chatted for a couple of minutes.
- My other brush with fame was meeting Devo backstage at the Paramount, thanks to the passes my high-school boyfriend had won from a radio station. The rumor was that the Devo guys were straight-A students, something I desperately wanted to believe at the time, since filling out AC/DC t-shirts hadn't completely clobbered my brainy rep. I very earnestly asked them about it and got to watch them squirm as they danced between truth and what was probably part of their PR machine.
- My favorite concert was Prince's Purple Rain tour. We had been watching the movie and playing the album for weeks. They released the movie to video while it was still in theaters, but that didn't stop us from seeing it on the big screen at least a dozen times. The entire UW campus was "Purple Rain" crazy; you couldn't walk past the dorms and frats without hearing it blaring out of one window or another. Then Prince came to town and watching the show was like living the movie. We knew all the dance moves, we knew all the audience-participation moves: we were in a purple frenzy. And when Prince removed his hip-hugging chain-belt thingie and threw it to the crowd and my sister caught it, my friends and I developed a case of envy that hasn't faded after all these years.
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Hmm, I'd better dig out "Purple Rain" and get it loaded onto my iPod... :-)
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Actually, it was your three blue-haired, mini-skirted Devo concert buddies who sashayed up to the stage and flirted five backstage passes from the roadies. No radio station involved. ;)
And Tonya caught the Prince buckle.
Hmm, you might be right about the flirted passes (in which case what Todd won was a skiing trip to Bachelor). I don't remember the blue hair, though.
But unless you are Lynn, I stand by my memory that Lynn caught the belt. Either that or both Linda and I are remembering it wrong...
My first rock concert:
Sky River Rock Festival and Lighter Than Air Fair opens a three-day run near Sultan, Washington, on August 30, 1968.
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On August 30, 1968, the Sky River Rock Festival and Lighter Than Air Fair opens a three-day run in a pasture near Sultan, in Snohomish County, Washington. This is America's first multi-day, outdoor rock concert (the Monterey Pop Festival, held in June 1967 during the "summer of love," was a daytime-only festival). Among the bands and performers playing at the Sky River Rock Festival are Santana, Big Mama Thornton, James Cotton, Country Joe and the Fish, Richard Pryor, Dino Valenti, Byron Pope, It’s a Beautiful Day, Peanut Butter Conspiracy, Alice Stuart Thomas, the Youngbloods, New Lost City Ramblers, and local groups such as Juggernaut and Easy Chair. On the last day, The Grateful Dead arrive unscheduled.
unca scott
Well, the blue hair came from that blue hairspray stuff. I remember we primped for hours at Astrid's house to get that hair as big as possible. And it was definitely Tonya who caught the Prince buckle. Otherwise, I would still have it . . . and I don't really even remember what it looked like.
--Lynn
What do you know! Linda and I have been envying the wrong woman all these years.
I remember the buckle being a delicate length of chain. But clearly I am not to be trusted.
Scott - Sounds very cool. Were you a deadhead?
Obviously oblivious.
M
My first was James Brown around 63 or so, definitely before 64 - sorry, you know how bad my time sense is.
Wow--it's hard to believe that you remember something wrong, kqr! Really :)
My first concert was also around 63--The Four Tops at the Retail Clerks Auditorium.
I also saw Sonny (complete with furry vest) and Cher there. As they were walking out, Sonny handed my friend, Harlene, his empty cigarette pack. Chesterfields, I think. Obviously not as good a prize as the Prince belt!
Steph
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