All in Bangalore. The Rolling Stones - April 2003. I was 13. My first ever concert, attended with my dad. I wore the most ridiculous shoes (some sort of platforms) and we got into a terrible argument because he wanted me to wear ‘comfortable sneakers’ but I stubbornly refused to change because I wanted to be fashionable. Of course, it rained. Of course, it got slushy. Of course, he was right.
Sting - Jan 2005. A school friend got VIP tickets, but the regular area looked like it was a lot more fun. Sounds ungrateful now, but I essentially left the VIP area and joined my dad and *his* friends in the regular ticket area. I eventually stood next to a family friend’s younger brother - the guy who would become my husband 10 years later. I was 15 and he was 18 but we didn’t get together until.. Aerosmith - June 2007. My dad is out of the country, but surprises me with a call while I’m in a movie theatre. He’d got me a ticket to the show, and I was going to see Aerosmith live (accompanied by a trustworthy group of older friends, of course). The show was great (but I don’t think they played Pink). Anyway, after the show a bunch of us go out for dinner and there’s that guy again! Part of the same group. By now, I have a cell phone so I got hold of his number.. Norah Jones - March 2013. My dad is weak from chemo, but he’s adamant he wants to go. Norah Jones is special to us both. We love her music. She and I share the same birthday, and her ‘Indian’ name is Geetali - so similar to mine. So, we go. Just the two of us. Our friends are the organisers (or knew them, can’t remember now) so they make sure he has a chair to sit on in the sound console tent. I hang around his side nervously, but I leave him for just a few moments so that I can go and buy a concert t-shirt. That was one of our last times out together - three months later, he’s gone. Strangely enough, I took out that t-shirt to wear just today. Thank you for this prompt. I didn’t even realise how many great memories I have.. Geetanjali Chitnis On 11 December 2020 at 10:34:37 PM, Thaths ([email protected]) wrote: > Excellent thread. For me.... > > > 1994: Pink Floyd Division Bell tour (San Antonio) > > 1999: L Shankar, Zakir Husain and Vikku Vinayakaram in concert (i.e., > Shakthi minus John McLaughlin) in San Francisco, I suspect Shankar was in > deep financial trouble at this point in time and did this tour to make > some > quick money. I suspect they will not perform together again. > > 2000: Santana > > 2003/4: Remember Shakthi in Palace Grounds, Bangalore > > 2015/17: Buena Vista Social Club, Toumani Diabaté (Womadelaide, Adelaide, > Australia) > > 2019/20: Tinariwen, Mulatu Astatke (Berkeley) > > There are also several carnatic music concerts, but I cannot quite place > them in time. > > Thaths > > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 8:17 AM Radhika, Y. <[email protected]> wrote: > > 1994 Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young > 2005 Arturo Sandoval > 2006 Unknown blues singer at Terra Blues, NYC > 1986 Zakir Hussain and Birju Maharaj > > El jue., 10 dic. 2020 10:10 p. m., Venkatesh H R <[email protected]> > escribió: > > Thinking on and off about Udhay's 'what do you splurge on' thread, I > realised I've spent good money to get to concerts. What have been your > memorable ones? > > 2009 - Paul McCartney "Good Evening London" - by far the best concert > > ever. > > Me and the missus borrowed money from her parents to pay for the tix, we > were living in Oxford). > 2019 - U2, Mumbai (travelled from Delhi) > 2018 - Judas Priest, Mountain View > 2008 - Ian Anderson, Anoushka Sharma, New Delhi > 2002 - Deep Purple, Mumbai > 2002 - Pandit Shiv Shankar Sharma & Ustad Zakir Hussain > > Regrets - haven't been to any good Carnatic concerts, missed Mark > > Knopfler > > and Iron Maiden when they came to Bangalore, gave away tickets I'd won to > No Doubt in Bangalore 1998 in exchange for a t-shirt. Also came just > > short > > of going to a Paul Simon at Queen's concert in 2018 (apparently his last > one). > > > > > > -- > *Get your 'vaccine' from 'fake news', lies, half-truths, manipulated > truths, propaganda and general B.S. at my media buddhi newsletter > <https://mediabuddhi.substack.com/>.* > > H R Venkatesh > Director, Training and Research, BOOM <https://www.boomlive.in/> > John S. Knight Journalism Fellow 2019 > <https://jsk.stanford.edu/fellows/class-of-2019/h-r-venkatesh/>, > > Stanford > > University > Twitter: @hrvenkatesh > > > > > -- > Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? > Carl: Nuthin'. > Homer: D'oh! > Carl: Unless you're crooked. > Homer: Woo-hoo! >
