I can't quite picture you listening to NIN, Bob
You didn't know me when I my hair was down to the middle of my back. ...when I still had most of my hair!
some how, I get an easier visual of Bob Unkerfer singing Shania Twain...
Don't feel bad, so do I!
My musical tastes are very diverse. My parents loved classical and jazz, my dad played piano in jazz bands when I was little. I was playing drums in rock bands at the age of 14.
I hung up my sticks in the mid-80's, got tired of only being able to find bands that just wanted to jam and get high.
In the early to mid-90's, I was working on the "other side" of music -- concert production and promotion. I loved the production part because someone else was taking all of the risks dollar wise. Promotion was a different animal -- I was taking all of the risks, and lost my a$$ on a couple concerts.
Working on that side of music, overall, was a blast. I got to meet the people and hear some great music in the process. This was all in a small venue, a live music night club that was SRO at 400 people. We booked a fairly diverse menu of artists into that room. Quiet Riot (the loudest noise I've ever heard -- Kevin DuBrow told me if the music was too loud, I was too old!
), Arlo Guthrie (he was still the same hippie he ever was), Blues Traveler (I've never seen anyone play a harmonica like John Popper can), Sheryl Crow (had her in there twice, the second time was three weeks before her first album hit the charts), Lonnie Brooks (Chicago blues rock at its best), Bo Diddley (he had to have been close to 70-years-old then, and the dude could still kick butt on stage), just to name a few.
I picked Rhapsody In Blue first, because it really is my all time favorite song. I added NIN because Trent Reznor is a musical genius, a one-man-band in the studio. ...his lyrics are sometimes a little unusual.
My first race this year will be IHRA in San Antonio. Do you guys ever play on the other side?
Bob
