rockin' in the usa
a couple of recent events have gotten me thinking about music from my teen years. alas, the actual music wasn't good enough to elicit anything more than the most superficial of thoughts.
the fields previously known as southpark meadows are forever gone. for reasons unknown to me, southpark has gone from popular to closed to resurrected and then into oblivion. when i was a kid, i went to a few concerts here...the cars, ub40, the police, wang chung. after the initial closing of the park; it reopened years later to host lollapalooza and similar music festivals. like most things, this space will now be the site of a strip mall. how trite and unimaginative. austin needs a new concert venue like southpark. the erwin center is nice, but it is too antiseptic. the back yard is supposed to be really cool, but i have never been in love with it. the places on campus are o.k., if not small. on the other hand, i may be getting too old for an outdoor concert. i need a place where i have a seat specifically for myself, and no one stands up for very long. sad, huh?
on the way home from work on saturday, klbj played a "miniset" from 1983. this is when i was a freshman in high school and it's amazing how i still remembered every word. here are the three songs:
1) "lick it up" by kiss - i actually saw this concert. the song, album and tour all shared the same name. it was pretty cool because the opening band was a little known band named motley crue.
2) "pride and joy" by stevie ray vaughn - i saw him a couple of times at aquafest. now, there's a music festival that was awesome. acl is cool, but aquafest always had better talent and felt less contrived.
3) "metal health" by quiet riot - hey, even i had more taste than to waste money on that concert. though, i did turn it way up and do my best ren mccormick impression.
the fields previously known as southpark meadows are forever gone. for reasons unknown to me, southpark has gone from popular to closed to resurrected and then into oblivion. when i was a kid, i went to a few concerts here...the cars, ub40, the police, wang chung. after the initial closing of the park; it reopened years later to host lollapalooza and similar music festivals. like most things, this space will now be the site of a strip mall. how trite and unimaginative. austin needs a new concert venue like southpark. the erwin center is nice, but it is too antiseptic. the back yard is supposed to be really cool, but i have never been in love with it. the places on campus are o.k., if not small. on the other hand, i may be getting too old for an outdoor concert. i need a place where i have a seat specifically for myself, and no one stands up for very long. sad, huh?
on the way home from work on saturday, klbj played a "miniset" from 1983. this is when i was a freshman in high school and it's amazing how i still remembered every word. here are the three songs:
1) "lick it up" by kiss - i actually saw this concert. the song, album and tour all shared the same name. it was pretty cool because the opening band was a little known band named motley crue.
2) "pride and joy" by stevie ray vaughn - i saw him a couple of times at aquafest. now, there's a music festival that was awesome. acl is cool, but aquafest always had better talent and felt less contrived.
3) "metal health" by quiet riot - hey, even i had more taste than to waste money on that concert. though, i did turn it way up and do my best ren mccormick impression.
posted by cm at 2/06/2006
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