We've got an interesting assortment of offerings from the Tuesday Terrors for tonight's open Mike.
- MikeF starts us off with some industrial rock
- JohnB brings us some old fashioned trucker music
- Sylvain leads a renaissance/jazz fusion ensemble
- HarryV offers us some tunes from North Africa
- AndrewG will wake us up with a bang.
- MartinC will regale us with tales from the mead hall
- KenR has some old French favourites.
- As always there's always room for more acts.
And as always, you have to put up with my weekly choice of kinda live music choices that fit my eclectic old man tastes. I'll try to get something from this century for next week, but for now we've got an up and coming indie band from 1983...told you I was old. Anyway this is apparently REM's first appearance on National TV, and boy did they look awkward and dorky! I also love that while Michael Stipe is better known for being as bald as a billiard ball, he started out with an impressive mop of curly hair.
Back in the day if it had a driving beat, jangly guitars and mumbled lyrics I was all over it. There's a lot of good stuff in the REM back catalogue from the days before they were Grammy winning superstars. And many of them are fun to play on guitar even if I can't get the tone of that Rickenbacker12 string.
My wife never has stopped mentioning seeing them live at the Egyptian theater at Northern university . Before they made it big and people like me heard of them. Great band.
ReplyDeleteGreat pick with REM Peter! I made a personal pilgrimage to Athens GA in fall 2024 (BEFORE the election) to visit the 40 Watt Club (I saw Bob Mould play a show there), see the steeple of the church where they played their first show, and have lunch at Weaver D's Delicious Fine Foods ("automatic for the people") where I met Dexter Weaver his own self. Awesome trip. AND I was a huge fan of LNWDL back in the '80s too!
ReplyDeleteI think that I have found my people!
ReplyDeleteAnd you're right Peter, the IRS years were the best for REM :-)
ReplyDeleteREM - takes me back to Cardiff!
ReplyDeleteI’m glad it struck a nostalgic note Norber, but Cardiff wasn’t my first guess for your destination!
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