One of the biggest shows of the year rolls into town on Tuesday, and many of us are still scratching our heads about who should headline. I paid to see the Psychedelic Furs play the OAT at SDSU back in the 1980s and always thought they were a fine punk band of the era, but they are old now!
If you are going to the show, make sure you get there early to see the preeminent band of the era:
Michael Jackson was only six months older than me, and I think there is a sort of kinship between those who are about the same age. So when we had a chance to see the play ‘MJ’ on Broadway when we were visiting Kayla, I jumped at the chance.
Not only was it phenomenal, but I thought that the guy playing Michael was better at being Michael than Michael was – and that’s saying something! He won the Tony for best actor:
Another famous singer from Jamaica who is five days younger than Natalie. We need to play the Jamaica card and have Natalie go on tour with her!
It is so great having Kayla home. She grew up as a San Diegan, but she is a New Yorker now, living just blocks away from Times Square. Alicia was born in New York City, but is a La Jollan now and one of the 100 Greatest Artists of All-Time, having sold over 90 million records and winner of 15 Grammys!
You probably had to be a 70’s kid to appreciate Jim Seals, who died at age 80 today. Here’s one of their classics:
These were my high-school days. The Best of Mountain on 8-track, and friends like this:
We attended the Adams Avenue Unplugged last weekend in Normal Heights, and it was a great time. We walked down to the A/C Lounge to see Chickenbone Slim & the Biscuits:
and then back to the Normal Heights Methodist Church in time to see John Doe play solo. Tony Hawk is a big fan too – that’s him over the shoulder of the lady in the black-and-white-stripe top:
Hat tip to CB Mark for alerting me to the show!
These local heroes are playing at the Prohibition Lounge tonight at 8:30pm!!
After Gregg’s funeral, Jackson wanted to play, somewhere. He went to a place called Grant’s Lounge, where everyone played back in the’70’s. Folks had a real shock that night. The talent that came there, for Gregg’s memory was amazing. Thank Jackson. That was appreciated by everyone who just happened to be there that night. Adding, being Gregg’s friend was not an easy thing for a long time. Have had some friends like that myself. Jackson is one helluva good man, will leave that there.
“I wrote ‘These Days’ before I met Gregg. He heard me play the song when we were first friends, I guess we were probably both 18,” Jackson Browne tells Blackbird about Gregg Allman in this concert clip. “The way he did that song completely changed it, I think for me and for everybody… I could write a song like that but when it came time to singing it, Gregg really gave it a kind of graveness and gravity that the song can hold.”
Relive the magic of Gregg and Jackson performing “These Days” together for the first time:
Please don’t confront me with my failures, I am aware of them.
I’ve been fortunate to get almost 2.3 million YouTube views (1/3 of them in 2009!) over the last 15+ years.
Our daughter Natalie’s video got over 8 million views in less than a week!
She is the one in white with a blue streak in her hair – right in front between the 3:00 and 3:22-min mark:
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