Category: Concert reviews

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  New Year’s Eve 2010 Baby Boomers Social Club Dinner & Dance Red Lion Convention Center Portland, Oregon I remember in the late ’80s when the Gen Xers first figured out that the Baby Boomers were sucking up all the oxygen on the planet. Back then I had several discussions with…

  January 2, 2011
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  New feature: Bands I saw 30 years apart!

  The B-52s Boston, Mass. 1979 Portland, Ore. 2007 In the summer of 1979, when The B-52s sang “Everybody had matching towels,” I was one of the people in that little club waving matching towels. Mine were white with a red checked pattern and I bought them that morning at Goodwill.…

  December 19, 2010
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  Wake me up before you Gaga

  Lady Gaga in concert The Rose Garden, Portland, Ore. August, 2010 This summer I won two tickets to see Lady Gaga. I was trying to win tickets to Arcade Fire. You take what you can get in this life. Her concert lasted two hours, in which she demonstrated her ability…

  November 4, 2010