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top 5 music moments while living in boston.
these of course are moments that i was apart of, not just a witness to.
1) House Of Blues, sold out show with LGB.
Do i really need to elaborate on this? we sold out the house of blues. front to back, full of people. we played great, sounded great, had the best time ever. if every night was as good as that...
2) Bill's Bar with the LGB - 1
It was the playoffs. it is right next to fenway park. it was spectacular. the place was PACKED. we were so tight that night. i wore my sox jersey. it was one of those nights where you play so hard that your fingers bleed. while this may sound gross to some, it was great. its kind of a sign that you didnt hold anything back. we sure as hell didnt.
3) new york in the rain
this actually took place in new york but i was living in boston at the time so it counts. the first time we played in nyc, i had to walk across the city at one point to meet up with the rest of the band. that one point just happened to be at 4am. it was raining. so there i am, walking through the city that gave birth to jeff buckley, ryan adams, jimi hendrix, bob dylan, basically EVERYONE, with a guitar on my back and i felt like i belonged. i walked past the chelsea hotel where ryan adams wrote Love is Hell, walked down MacDougal street where dylan and hendrix and clapton hung out in the 60's and i felt just like they did...only not on any drugs. it wasnt a feeling of confidence, it was more of a feeling of assimilation, there was very little difference between me and them at that point. i was taking the right steps, figuratively and literally.
4) Alive on the quad
back at NU i had to perform with a music ensemble for a few quarters to get the appropriate credit so i could graduate blah blah blah. they had a rock ensemble. i kid you not. so once a quarter we would hold a rock ensemble recital where this huge, 12 piece rock band (usually 3 guitars, 2 bass guitars, 2 drummers, a horn section, 4 singers or something along those lines) would play zeppelin or whatever was on the plate that quarter. this one quarter, we played Alive, by pearl jam. i was elected to play the cool solo at the end. i love that solo, its a favorite of mine, yeah its kinda cheesy and riffy and white, but i dig it. the recital was outside on the quad in the spring. we got a decent amount of people to check it out. so we play alive, and i play the solo, note for note. afterwards i had swarms of people, including music profs coming up to me telling me how great i was and how talented i am. whatever, i played a damn cover song. but it was a nice pat on the back from some nice people, so ill take it.
5) stetson hall gets hippy
before the laura glyda band, joe, dave and i played in jesters dead. it was your typical jam band, but we were cool. since i was an RA i was able to convince the school to give us a ton of money to stage a show in the lobby of one of the freshman halls. andy cass, being the lighting nympho that he is, brought in a ridiculous rig. we had to run power cables everywhere, into dorm rooms, into the cafeteria downstairs, and we still blew every fuse we could. the show was great though. all the residents were there, people were dancing, probably getting drunk, having a good time. if for no other reason, i got the best photos of us playing that night. also, it was kind of the start. i felt like a bit of a rockstar that night. there was promise everywhere you turned and we were still naive enough to believe in alot of the music world bullshit.
these of course are moments that i was apart of, not just a witness to.
1) House Of Blues, sold out show with LGB.
Do i really need to elaborate on this? we sold out the house of blues. front to back, full of people. we played great, sounded great, had the best time ever. if every night was as good as that...
2) Bill's Bar with the LGB - 1
It was the playoffs. it is right next to fenway park. it was spectacular. the place was PACKED. we were so tight that night. i wore my sox jersey. it was one of those nights where you play so hard that your fingers bleed. while this may sound gross to some, it was great. its kind of a sign that you didnt hold anything back. we sure as hell didnt.
3) new york in the rain
this actually took place in new york but i was living in boston at the time so it counts. the first time we played in nyc, i had to walk across the city at one point to meet up with the rest of the band. that one point just happened to be at 4am. it was raining. so there i am, walking through the city that gave birth to jeff buckley, ryan adams, jimi hendrix, bob dylan, basically EVERYONE, with a guitar on my back and i felt like i belonged. i walked past the chelsea hotel where ryan adams wrote Love is Hell, walked down MacDougal street where dylan and hendrix and clapton hung out in the 60's and i felt just like they did...only not on any drugs. it wasnt a feeling of confidence, it was more of a feeling of assimilation, there was very little difference between me and them at that point. i was taking the right steps, figuratively and literally.
4) Alive on the quad
back at NU i had to perform with a music ensemble for a few quarters to get the appropriate credit so i could graduate blah blah blah. they had a rock ensemble. i kid you not. so once a quarter we would hold a rock ensemble recital where this huge, 12 piece rock band (usually 3 guitars, 2 bass guitars, 2 drummers, a horn section, 4 singers or something along those lines) would play zeppelin or whatever was on the plate that quarter. this one quarter, we played Alive, by pearl jam. i was elected to play the cool solo at the end. i love that solo, its a favorite of mine, yeah its kinda cheesy and riffy and white, but i dig it. the recital was outside on the quad in the spring. we got a decent amount of people to check it out. so we play alive, and i play the solo, note for note. afterwards i had swarms of people, including music profs coming up to me telling me how great i was and how talented i am. whatever, i played a damn cover song. but it was a nice pat on the back from some nice people, so ill take it.
5) stetson hall gets hippy
before the laura glyda band, joe, dave and i played in jesters dead. it was your typical jam band, but we were cool. since i was an RA i was able to convince the school to give us a ton of money to stage a show in the lobby of one of the freshman halls. andy cass, being the lighting nympho that he is, brought in a ridiculous rig. we had to run power cables everywhere, into dorm rooms, into the cafeteria downstairs, and we still blew every fuse we could. the show was great though. all the residents were there, people were dancing, probably getting drunk, having a good time. if for no other reason, i got the best photos of us playing that night. also, it was kind of the start. i felt like a bit of a rockstar that night. there was promise everywhere you turned and we were still naive enough to believe in alot of the music world bullshit.
posted by Chris Porter at 11:29 PM
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And I was there for the LGB HOB show. Amazing times.
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