Good Sunday Morning
 

Good Morning
Today is the same as every other day :)

Good Morning Everyone |waves|

More rain and damn its cold... why did I open my pool last week?

Anyway, more submissions and maybe a couple of new blogs on my plate for today.

Have a great Sunday everyone!

Good morning world |waves|

From the last post in yesterday's morning thread, since Greenie & Mrs. Greenie were going to the show last night and we might get a report on it today:

I went to almost all of the shows at the Agora Ballroom back then, but I don't remember most of them. My crew at the time were all punks and wavers and usually there was a personal altered state of consciousness which contributed to the lack of recall.

But I do remember The Police show at The Fox Theater in June of 1980. The Zenyatta Mondatta Tour. Sting's vocals so good you'd have thought it was Memorex. And there was one point during show (I forget which song they were doing) when Stu Copeland had thrown away or broken every drumstick he had, so he continued playing and finished the song using just his taped-up fingers and hands. Absolutely awesome performance that night.

(I'd seen Rush at The Fox the year (Hemispheres Tour) before and I remember thinking to myself that Copeland and Neil Peart must be the best drummers ever.)

The thing I remember most about The Police visiting Atlanta 28 years ago was Copeland being interviewed on WRAS or WREK (college stations, and yes, I can't remember which one he was on). Sting was getting all the media focus by then and at one point the interviewer asked Copeland if he was jealous of the attention Sting was getting. Copeland took a beat (no pun), and then said, "sure, I'm jealous of Sting...{small laugh}...but not for the attention he's getting." When the interviewer asked what he was jealous of then, he answered with perfect syncopated timing, "Have you heard his voice?"

I thought that was such a perfect way to answer a shitty question.

Okay, that about wraps up the history segment of today's post.

Wishing everyone a day full of pleasant memories.

:)

Wow am I sore. Kayaked around the entire big pile of dirt known as Peanut Island yesterday.

Just a day of work planned for today.

good morning all


The Agora ballroom show was 1978 (or 79) That was a good time for the agora, huge oilcans of tooheys beer (woohoo) and bands like the clash, devo, public image and many more playing there. There was another place (The Roxy?) that had a few good shows like patti smith.


good times, tickets were normally less then $10's and you could stay at the Georgian terrace hotel for about $30 a day.

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Good morning. Looks like it's going to be hot and humid here.

Good day,
the sun is hiding and it is dark outside... guess another storm is heading here.

Found my stash that I've been looking for since the day before yesterday while looking for the card reader for my video camera this morning. Still can't find the card reader... |potleaf|

Good Sunday Peoples |waves|

Well, I have to admit that while The Police concert was really good last night, it doesn't even come close to Spooky & Simon's 30 year old stories :D I'll also say that I was surprised to learn that I actually know 3 Elvis Costello songs (and every song he played made it seem like you were watching the end credits of some cheesy 80's movie)

Hockey for me today & then The Bitch is going to Bingo! so I'll be watching some Netflix movies that I don't remember putting into my queue |pokefun||greenguy|

Mornin All
Spooky is making me feel old, the first concert I went to was Big Brother And The Holding Company at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. The lead singer was a hippy chick named Janis Joplin.
Coffee's On

I love finding the lost stash :)

Have a good day everyone

Good Morning,

Just another Sunday, just another day. No plans for today as my in laws are coming over to celebrate my mom's birthday that is actually tomorrow.

Have a happy day all! :)

Good Morning All :)

I'm in trouble.. just curious if anyone can help..
http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...ad.php?t=46882

Good morning all!

Holy Shit Balls !! I was at that one!

Loved the Agora too, especially to see more local products like; The Dixie Dregs, Sea Level, Mothers Finest, The Producers, R.E.M, Riggs (etc.)

AAhhh . . . Those were the days! Rolling into Atlanta in a Chevelle SS with a bag weed to burn and hanging out at "Peaches Records & Tapes" or "High Ol Times" head shop before the show |thumb

And the women in Atlanta are still HOT!

I wish I could reminis about concerts like you guys went to. I saw REO Speedwagon in high school, but moved to Hawaii shortly afterwards and most concerts there were really expensive.

I did see a lot of local concerts that were great C&K, The brothers Cazimero several times, Brother Noland and the Pacific Bad Boys, IZ, Peter Moon Band with lots of great singing, hula dancing, and |potleaf|

MadHatter is the lucky one who saw all the concerts when he was younger, will have to see if he can jump in this thread.

No concerts today just work on porn and maybe some repotting of plants. Didn't sleep well last night so I'm really groggy.

Found my stash, found the card reader, now I can't find my car keys. I usually park in my garage so I just leave them in the ignition but took then out in case someone broke into our house while we were away since we were driving Christine's new car.

This is what happens when you wake and bake. |potleaf|

Good Sunday AM all...sunny and bright after rain all night

Heres to finding all thats lost!

morning ... Feeling like i'm actually coming down with something. So I am not going to be drinking that much booze today on the golf course. :( Need to take some pain relievers for this. The course our group is playing is pretty new. So excited about seeing what it's like.

Was awesome yesterday to see bowyer come away with the win at richmond. He kinda just hung back let people battle it out while he just cruised to a victory. :)


Have a relaxing one.

Cheers,
B

Good Morning or Afternoon :)

Morning..
Anyone here know that you are only "gay" if you are receiving but not if you are giving?? I had a huge discussion with one of my minions yesterday who only will date Asians. One of them he met recently is a tranny.. AND HOT!! Anyway at Chinese Karaoke yesterday (at 1 in the afternoon) she showed up (which how I know she's hot) and said minion went on to explain to me that as long he is the 'giving' one it's not gay. |huh I tried to tell him that in 2008.. or 1998 or 1988 or 1978 or even 1968 (when i was 13) I really didn't care if it was gay/straight etc. |pokefun| But he found it very necessary to make it clear to me that he isn't gay since he is the "giver"

Then we left to hit a small Derby party at the Palms.. very sad ending. I had a trifecta ticket with Big Brown (cuz that's how i like my men) Eight Belles (cuz my dog's name is Belle) and Pryo (cuz I am an X-men freak) .. Was so sad, I left without checking my ticket.. .and the lines were crazy.

As to concerts.. my 1st was Chuck Berry in 1970 at Six Flags in the ATL and only because I was working there. I do remember they had to pay him in cash which he kept in a briefcase on stage. I also remember seeing the Allman Brothers at some venue in downtown Atlanta but either I was living in a hazy world or just too old to remember where.
...i need a frigging memory chip for the brain..

|waves| have a RICHLY Ble$$ed $unday -- I think we are going to watch DVDs today. I'm stuck on a level of GTA4 and can't get off it.

Not to worry...you'll be old one day too. :)

Yep, I saw all of those bands there. Joe Strummer fronting the Clash before he got new teeth and made all the vocals sound strange. Even wound up with one of the yellow Devo jumpsuits made out of Tyvek. A friend used to rent the old round apartment on the top of the Georgian (before remodeling), and we saw Bow Wow Wow at the ballroom inside the Georgian way back when.

The first concert/show I attended was in 1962 or '63 ... I went with my parents to a 'nightclub' in Wildwood, NJ to see Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. I was about 7 or 8, and was wearing a suit and tie and drinking ginger ale in highball glasses with swizzle sticks. -- Feeling any younger?

For me it was the Agora and also "688" (at 688 Spring Street) and The Bistro--a house where Baby and The Pacifiers used to live and perform. Then there was Club Rio, Metroplex, Moonshadow Saloon, Numbers. Local bands we followed were the one you mentioned plus The Brains, Pylon, Heathen Girls with Rose Whipper & Marc Stowe, The Swimming Pool Q's, The Basics, The Fans, The Method Actors, The Throbs, Chris Wood and The Restraints, and of course B-52s...and more I can't remember right now.

Those were the days, my friend ... we thought they'd never end.

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Tired to day. After spending all day working I found I couldn't go to sleep last night so I popped in my netflix video Shoot 'Em Up. I enjoyed it. I'll be working on adding sponsors and other bland stuff today.

Feel like I'm getting the cold all the girls have had - damn, I haven't been sick in a long time and I can't afford to be sick right now :-(

Pylon was one of my wife's favorites! I'll never forget seeing them at the I&I Club in Athens on Halloween night 1982!

I'm on a roll so here are some more bands; Phil & The Blanks, The Little Tigers, Oh Okay, Rum Jungle, The Michael Guthrie Band, Normal Town Flyers . . . More great bands (along with many you listed) that played the Athens Clubs like The 40 Watt, Tyrones and the I&I |thumb

Here's A Classic

I used to love 688, great place, one of my favorite shows was a New York Punk band named DNA (not to be confused with a crappy band by the same name)

Simon, did you go to the Ultravox concert at the agora ballroom (early eighties?) if you did and remember the fight on the main floor that was me beating the crap out of some jock who threw a drink on my then gf :P instead of stopping the fight, the stage crew just pointed a big spotlight on us.

good times

Concert nostalgia! You know you are old when you can remember your first concert in 1959, seeing Chuck Berry and then later seeing the Ventures. That same year I saw my first fight live, when Gene Fullmer knocked out Carmen Basilio. I saw the Rolling Stones when they made their first tour to the US. The place for concerts was always the Whisky-A-Go-Go in Los Angeles. Saw the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, the Doors when they first started there, Jimi Hendrix, who showed at a Sam and Dave gig. Led Zeppelin was awesome there. I was always sneaking in the club with friends through the wave of cops that were always hassling everybody near the club. Ditched a large number of junior high and senior high classes to make the trip to Los Angeles from San Diego.
The most violent and the most intense concerts in L.A. were in the punk era. Suicidal Tendencies, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys and Fear were bands that always attracted the most violent crowds but also were the most exciting and intense bands to watch and listen to. I can still see, in my mind, Lee Ving of Fear fighting, spitting and still singing great without missing a beat. That band was insane.
The loudest band I ever heard and my ears are still suffering from that concert was Blue Cheer. My God, they had mountains of Marshall amps piled on top of each other and cranking the sound up to levels louder then a jet smashing "Summertime Blues" through your brain.

The Greatest Rock Promoter Who Ever "Fucking" Lived |thumb

Back then no one was sure whether it was a fight or just some punks moshing, slamming and thrash dancing. My friends Jumpin Jack, The Weave, and Rex Havoc were infamous for starting fights with each other that then turned into a big dance circle. Though that was more often at 688, we often started trouble at the Agora too. Consensual of course, the management thought we were the kind of nuts they wanted there.

I forget if it was the Agora, 688 or somewhere else that I watched Iggy Pop cover himself in peanut butter, dive through a sheet of glass, roll around in the shards and then stage dive into the crowd. Good times. :D

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Just for grins, to see who remembers these guys (or Spencer the video producer)... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-R0bXSobec

I think that was iggy at 688. so strange that we were prolly at a lot of the same concerts (strange since a lot of the concerts only had 200-300 people)

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Jim always told me that you're not gay if you don't push back. He told me this while breathing heavy on my neck |crazy|

BTW - nostalgia enthusiasts should check out http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/ |thumb

Thanks Greenie. I did not know about this site. Great site!! The posters bring back a lot of memories.