A couple weeks ago, I told a math classroom full of sixth graders how thirty (!) years ago I was one of the happiest guys in the world, down with mumps, sitting outside at Lake Herman doing trigonometry homework, and listening to U2 on a boom box bigger than a hundred iPods.
U2? The kids thought I was saying YouTube.
Kids! Bone up on your cultural literacy! Here’s U2 via YouTube, on Jimmy Kimmel, joking about how one of the reasons they named their now 30-year-old album The Joshua Tree was so they could keep laughing at their manager, who always said “Yoshua,” then opening up with release #2 from that album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ylSoAxpcKk
U2 still loves America, and I still love U2, even as they become to me what the Everly Brothers are to my mom.
Funny that I still love this song, even though I’ve found plenty of what I’m looking for.
After the Joshua Tree, U2’s music hit a long downward spiral for me.
I love U2.
When you think of what happened in Manchester, the song “Sunday Bloody Sunday” seems appropriate.
And the battle’s just begun
There’s many lost, but tell me who has won
The trench is dug within our hearts
And mothers, children, brothers, sisters
Torn apart
MFI,
Pretty hard to repeat an album in the top 40 all-time. But “Achtung Baby” and “All you can’t leave behind” were pretty darn good attempts.
Greatest male bands in my opinion are (no order, depends on mood) are: Eagles, U2, Tom Petty & Heartbreakers (band not solo right?), and Pink Floyd
Troy, regarding Manchester, Paris, Orlando…
We’ll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song
Thanks Pete Townsend for Won’t Get Fooled Again
What did we think when we shocked and awed them, how could we think they would welcome us in the streets while we looked to steal their oil? Now, Yemen will suffer the same fates as the other pawns and they will send out their angry young men to seek vengeance on the power brokers that speak the tongue of religious dominance only for their resources.
ISIS bans music. ISIS would ban kids from hearing U2. Thus, among other reasons, ISIS sucks.
U2 caught me at just the right time (think chasing girls and seeking cosmic truths). Eagles, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and Pink Floyd all make good music, but they came earlier and thus didn’t figure in my radio-listening youth (not a lot of albums in my teen collection, and certainly no CDs or iPod or online streaming) the same way.
I understand Cory. I was one of those extremely young music prodigies and thus exposed to those while not yet in school. I’m pretty sure I was your age when I was first exposed to U2. My driver’s license is one big misprint. Has my age, height, weight, and hair color all wrong.
Not a huge U2 fan (or Bono) but I have always liked that song. Very introspective and it captures the essence of a good gospel song. Oh look a Harlem gospel choir rendition.
https://youtu.be/M8Wt3dhF4fU
Reminds me of the Grateful Dead’s song “Ripple”
There is a road, no simple highway,
Between the dawn and the dark of night,
And if you go no one may follow,
That path is for your steps alone.
You know the Dead, Coyote.? What the hell happened to you?
@Porter Lansing:
Discovered Lockean Liberalism, ran my own business for 35+ years and became a capitalist. You can blame Tom Daschle and Tim Johnson for their reneging on their balanced budget amendment pledge for my switching to Republican. Switched same day as Ben Nighthorse Campbell (RIP), March 3, 1995.
I declare, Coyote and the Dead in the same sentence? Wow. I suppose you remember Uncle John’s Band. I saw the Dead at Folsom Field in September of 1972, 5 hours for sure of fun in the fall. The place was full.. What a time! https://archive.org/details/gd1972-09-03.sbd.gems.101143.flac16
God damn, well, I declare
Have you seen the like
Their walls are built of cannon balls
Their motto is don’t tread on me
Come hear Uncle John’s Band
Playing to the tide
Come with me or go alone
He’s come to take his children home
Thanks Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter
No family, business or government can reach it’s potential with a balanced budget. It’s a propaganda myth to entice those afraid of risk and unwilling to stimulate personal progress.
My first show… October 22, 1971 U of Minn field house. Lol. Beat ‘ya. New Riders opened with Jerry playing banjo. They debuted six songs.
Debuted … Bertha, Jack Straw , Brown Eyed Women lol
https://archive.org/details/gd1971-10-22.sbd.gans.miller.112821.flac16
@Porter Lansing: Beat you! First Dead show, October 21, 1971, Auditorium Theater in Chicago with the New Riders opening as well. LOL. This is nuts. My freshman year at University of Chicago. My roommate and I had bought two tickets each and the plan was to get dates. My date stood me up so I sold my extra ticket (if I remember it was about a $4 3rd balcony ticket) to a dorm mate who became a very good friend. He was kicked out of the dorm for all the weed that was smoked in his room. I never inhaled. ;-) Bwahahahahaha!
Outstanding , Don. There were people at my show that had been at yours the night before., And, Jerry … I have many close friends who were also at your first. It’s a big 🚌 bus ..,,,,,,,,,,………. 🐌
PS … Univ of Chicago? WOW I knew you’re way smarter than me. 😊
Nothing can beat the Auditorium Theater for acoustics. A classical opera house designed by Louis Sullivan. OMG. What an experience. We were sitting above the mirror ball when they turned it on. Dayum!
Looking up
http://s3.amazonaws.com/architecture-org/files/buildings/auditorium-theater-03-2.jpg
My view
https://nthp-savingplaces.s3.amazonaws.com/2015/07/31/15/51/44/610/141209_blog-photo_auditorium-theatre_view-of-entireseating.gif
Senator Campbell is alive and kicking! (Competed in Judo in 64 Olympics) Also the year Billy Mills won the 10,000 meter gold. Speaking of kicking, Mills sprint at the end of the race remains an inspiring example of reaching into your guts at the finish. Amazing.
Nobody sang or sings gospel like Elvis. Hallelujah!
Well, Coyote. I was wrong. My show was a couple days before yours. October 19, 1971 at Northrop Arena- UofMinn. I always miss the date ’til I look it up.
https://archive.org/details/gd71-10-19.orefm.clugston.3301.sbeok.shnf
Saw Pink Floyd there as well in 1972. “Dark Side of the Moon” tour. Hadn’t even pressed the record yet. Tjhey were still trying out the different songs. It’s on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCeqbeXG2iEAudio only.
So is the Dead concert. Your concert might be on Youtube/Internet as well.
https://archive.org/details/gd71-10-21.sbd.cotsman.5071.sbeok.shnf
Good one, Spike.
Thanks, Don. I’ve got a Dead collection with a few shows ( about 600 CD’s) #grins
Thank God for the Internet Porter! FWIW My buddy who I sold the ticket to went on to get his Phd in myrmecology. (Coyote hear sounds of everybody Googling myrmecology).
No doubt. Auditorium Theatre had some of the best shows, anywhere anytime.
Nice …. 🐜 man
Billy Mills, 1964, that last dash—again, thank goodness for YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F5iCsymMj0
Look at those arms, those legs, striding out, everything in that last push.
My knee went bad that spring, a month before the mumps, leading me to drop track and focus on the spring play. I came down with the mumps the morning after the final performance of the spring show. My knee got better, the mumps went away, and I continued running for my own enjoyment—10K, sometimes 20K+ around Lake Herman.
Senator Al Franken (Big D from Minnesota) not only D for Democrat but D for Deadhead, will be on the Grateful Dead channel, cool beans https://www.facebook.com/gratefuldeadchannelSXM/