a squirrel and two cats walk into a bar...Mason's favorite time of the evening. When he grabs a chew toy, lays comfortably and relaxed at my feet while I tell him cat stories. He likes it when squirrels are in the tale too. I can tell.
Showing my age, but I went to a concert featuring a number of bands. Some were beginning to get notice, but others weren't known on a national level. Recalling the ravishing but mostly bored young lady who accompanied me, I'm thinking it was in 1967.
Appearing were Deep Purple, Big Brother & the Holding Company, iron Butterfly, Moby Grape, and Jefferson Airplane.
No, not a music festival. Just a concert at Kiel Auditorium in St Louis which was torn down many years ago. Air conditioned with somewhat comfy seats. I'm pretty sure the tickets were $10 or less.
Which brings me to a geezer truth: You may roll your eyes when a crusty old AARPer talks about how things used to be better, but sometimes they actually were.
Mason entertaining turtles. Sugar being entertained by a garden hose she's trying to tell me is wrapped incorrectly. Good Girl Sugar !!!
She is right, that hose is backwards. Which reminds me, why does everyone in the south wrap the bread tie the wrong way?
This is making me nervous. It is a very small step to move to a discussion of proper toilet paper installation, and that never ends well.
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I would have loved to see Iron Butterfly.
Actually, they were the main reason I decided to go, along with seeing Grace Slick. And though it was great to hear the music live, I can't say it was a landmark concert. Due to some fatal preparation on my end, I remember it most for an experencing an actual light show.
I was a kid. Period. This might have been the first concert I ever attended. Anyhow, I didn't have much money and there sure weren't any online apps to show seating arrangements. So I bought tickets I could afford from a part time job (the cheapest) and asked for as close to the stage as possible.
This was a big auditorium with multiple levels and balconies. I got really close seats, that's for sure. But they were about 3 levels up and maybe 100 feet from the stage - sadly, completely off to the side and at a right angle. Yep, fatal mistake.
I'm guessing the sound guys set up on the floor in front of the stage, tweaked a handful of controls compared to what's used today, and called it a good day's work. An at that time, some not even illegal yet pharmaceuticals may have clouded their judgement.
From where we sat, if we weren't familiar with the song being played it was just a series of seemingly random echoed sounds. I guess the place was great for speeches and plays maybe, but I would have had better sound if I'd stood outside the entrance doors which were in front of the stage though far, far away.
But it's a memory I wouldn't trade for anything. And it taught me a lesson so that when the Rolling Stones came to town a few years later, this time I had some idea of which seats were good and which weren't. Seventh row seats, section just to the right of the center aisle, y'all.
Mason entertaining turtles. Sugar being entertained by a garden hose she's trying to tell me is wrapped incorrectly. Good Girl Sugar !!!
The hose looks fine to me. :Raises Left Hand:
This is making me nervous. It is a very small step to move to a discussion of proper toilet paper installation, and that never ends well.
My TV antenna must not get that channel
The best TV show ever in the history of TV.
I bet you're right, Mike. It might have been a different group, though. Seems like everything I recognize has been covered a jillion times.
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