{"id":2843,"date":"2005-05-13T12:49:29","date_gmt":"2005-05-13T16:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/05\/13\/2843.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:50:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:50:02","slug":"top-five-live-musical-experien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2005\/05\/13\/top-five-live-musical-experien\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Five Live Musical Experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Top Five Live Musical Experiences\n<p>Before I begin: I am not counting experiences I actually participated in, which for Your Humble Blogger would date back to high school. Well, or singing to my Perfect Non-Reader. That sort of thing. Not what the question is about, as I understand it.\n<p>It will become obvious that I don&#8217;t go out to see music very often. Well, I don&#8217;t go out at all very often these parental days, but even before the little alibi, I was too (1) lazy and (b) cheap to go to concerts very often. Actually, a fairly high percentage of my experience listening to live music has been in and around the Harvard Square T station, and a fairly high percentage of that has been lousy. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sterlingentertainment.com\/ihjbbiosundstrom.htm\">Banjo Bob<\/a> Sundstrom was always a treat, of course, and I may be the only person in the whole world who still listens to that Katie &amp; Arina demo cd. Oh, and I saw John Kiehne in front of the CVS, and recognized him. How cool am I?\n<p>...anyway, I doubt this Top Five will be chock full of gosh-I-wish-I-had-been-there moments.\n<ul><li>The Klezmatics, at the Somerville Theater. I think it was the Somerville that was the great concert, and the Newton JCC that was the pretty good concert. Anyway, they were amazing, and when they played <I>Shnirele Perele<\/I>, I was afraid they really would bring the Messiah.<\/li>\n<li>Escape from New York tour, the Tower (Philadelphia). Debbie Harry opened, and people treated her like an opening act, walking around, chatting. The Heads (Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison) came next, and were better than I had expected, playing mostly non-TH stuff. The headline act was the Ramones, and they were ... the Ramones.<\/li>\n<li>David Byrne, the Tower (Philadelphia). This was the Rei Momo tour, and he didn&#8217;t play much TH stuff, either. Still, damn it was funky.<\/li>\n<li>The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Great American Music Hall (San Francisco). I&#8217;m pretty sure that this was the first show of the too-old-to-dance-all-concert days. I was exhausted by halfway through. It was the Jelly&#8217;s Jazz tour, and they kicked ass.<\/li>\n<li>Dave Frishberg, some church basement on Noe in San Francisco. Just him at the piano. It was hella funny, and afterwards I just went up and said hi.<\/li><\/ul>\n<p>On a different day, I might have mentioned the final exam of the Berklee College of Music Big Band (seeing an undergraduate conduct with his ass while playing the tuba is not easily forgotten), either the Philip Glass solo piano concert (in a high school cafeteria) or the Philip Glass Ensemble live Koyaanisqatsi show (very loud indeed), Jim&#8217;s Big Ego opening for The Nields at the Somerville, Zap Mama at the Somerville, Arturo Sandoval in Copley Square when the power went out, Sweet Honey in the Rock at the college theater, or the time Richard Bob wore my hat.\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Five Live Musical Experiences Before I begin: I am not counting experiences I actually participated in, which for Your Humble Blogger would date back to high school. Well, or singing to my Perfect Non-Reader. 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