My friend Jeannie sent me a link to some recently posted YouTube videos. Here’s one of them: Back in the day, pretty much any and every band that formed in Dublin was called “the next U2.” After U2 hit it big, record labels had people scouting out the Dublin scene — and all over Ireland, …
January 1, 2010[Warning: Unusual amount of self-reflection and navel-gazing is about to follow. Feel free to click to the next blog in your feed reader.] It’s been probably 20 years since I could say that I liked U2’s song “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.” The version with the choir from Rattle and Hum was …
October 12, 2009It’s 11:03 pm PDT, and I’ve spent the last 90 minutes listening to a U2 concert that ended about eight hours ago: fan-taped, uploaded, and posted online. U2 is cool with this. The audio is on Kevin’s site. He has lots of bandwidth. I don’t normally listen to bootlegs but this is the opening concert …
June 30, 2009I tested myself last night (Thursday). I hopped in the car and drove three hours to a remote part of Idaho to see Collective Soul do a tiny, little warm-up gig before their main tour starts next week. They advertised the show as being in Coeur d’Alene, but it was actually closer to Worley, Idaho, …
June 19, 2009You’ve probably heard the Coldplay song, “Fix You.” Great song. It’s a relationship song, and Chris Martin is presumably singing to his wife about how he’ll take care of her and make things better when they’re bad. Thus, the title of the song. Now, Chris Martin’s not the world’s best lyricist, but there’s a line …
May 17, 2009In 12 years of buying concert tickets online, never have I experienced as quick a turnaround as this. These are Sean’s and my U2 tickets for Giants Stadium later this year — we just ordered these last Monday, and they showed up in the mailbox today. Amazing. If memory serves, Ticketmaster usually waits about a …
March 30, 2009