"These pretzels are making me thirsty." - Jerry, George, Kramer, & Elaine, "Seinfeld"
Okay, so it’s not my greatest celebrity encounter in the world - it’s still fun. During the Summer of 2006, I became obsessed with collecting every Number One Billboard song ever produced - and wedged snugly in the middle of 1956, not long after the dawn of rock, was a snappy little number called “The Wayward Wind” by […]
I would have never guessed that when my friend Lance sent me home with his copy of The Smiths’ Louder Than Bombs cassette tape in 1988, that nineteen years later I would be shaking hands with the group’s lead singer. In fact, I would have been surprised at that prospect even one month ago. I wasn’t really […]
I was really looking forward to seeing the Cirque du Soleil performance of “Love” - the epic Beatles production of which I wrote about the soundtrack here - on the evening of February 10. Our tickets were for the late show at the Sahara, so Bob, the Wileys, and I had plenty of time to walk over […]
Amazingly, although I had been an off-and-on, but diehard, KISS fan since the late 1970’s, it wasn’t until Thursday, June 7, 1990 that I first saw them in concert. I had previously met ex-member Ace Frehley three years prior - but that was the extent of my brush with KISS fame. I attended this particular concert, […]
The first time I ever saw a Beatle was on April 9, 1990. Ashleigh was not quite three weeks old - and it was Christi’s birthday. I know that I felt terrible about leaving for a concert on her special day, but I couldn’t help it. Originally, this concert was scheduled for February 22 when […]