zany wrote:
-i totally relate to having trouble finding friends to go to concerts with you (try finding somebody my age to go see arlo guthrie) so i thought this past month when soul asylum was playing near me that it would be a breeze to find somebody to go with me. but it wasn't! (ok it was on a monday night which made my husband not want to go) but i'm not sure what's wrong w/ my newer friends that i live near, they are my age but weren't into SA in middleschool??? how could that be? my hometown friends who don't live near me would have totally come to see SA with me just for nostalgia even though they're not listening to them anymore. (actually i mentioned to one that SA was going to be in raleigh near her soon, and she said she saw them last year! i love my old friends!)
i finally asked my sisterinlaw to go - she's always up for going out to anything. she did ask 'who are they again?' ugh. 'runaway train?" 'oh yeah, OK i'll go" luckily she also knew 'gone till november' at the show so 2 songs instead of just one!
I have no idea who Arlo Guthrie is, but I'm guessing he/she/they're a musician/band from before your time seeing as no one your age will go with you to see them.
My sister was five in 1992 and she doesn't remember Runaway Train, and neither can my mom. My sister's boyfriend on the other hand, remembers seeing 'that guy with the grunge-type hair.' He was going to be five that year, too. My brother would have been seven, almost eight, but I haven't asked him about him knowing the song. He also listens to music before his time, like Pink Floyd(that's from the 70s, right?)
zany wrote:anyways i've given up having friends that like the same music as me. mostly: 60's folk music (joan baez/arlo), current lesbian folk music (dar williams/catie curtis), and well SA doesn't fit into a category for me because i don't really love any other bands i can fit in with them. well i do have similar nostalgia/love for first blind melon album that i got into at the same time as gdu... i rediscovered how much i love it when i was stuck in traffic for a couple hours on an icy night and played through all the tapes i had in my car.
I doubt that I can get some of my friends to listen to Soul Asylum. I've made a pact with one of them saying that I will never listen to her music and she will never listen to mine. She listens to stuff like the Jonas Brothers, Josh Groban, and some band called Oxford Comma.
I've actually heard of Blind Melon. They came out with No Rain, with that bee girl dancing about, right?