First Aid Kit on Letterman again tonight...

[countryjake]

Doing this song:

Oops, it's just popped up over at YouTube already. Here's tonight's performance:

[pinboy3niner]

1. One of the rare times I was impressed by a performance on a late night show

[countryjake]

2. I saw them on there a couple of years ago...

doing "The Lion's Roar", I think, and, like you, was duly impressed.

It cracks me up when David gets all gooshy with the performers like that.

[pinboy3niner]

3. I'm far from a music expert

But I come from a day when I saw a lot of acts at the Ice House in Glendale when I was in HS, and most of them were nothing to write home about.

But I also got to see The Association when they had just come out with 'Along Comes Mary' and We Five (a one-hit wonder) when they came out with 'You Were On My Mind.' (At one performance, I sat down on someone's feet on my chair--and turned around to find the offender was Ryan O'Neal, just after he had done 'Love Story,' I think.)

One good description of that time was done by The Mamas & The Papas:

[countryjake]

4. We've got a fridge magnet...

I may be old but I got to see all the cool bands.

Thanks for that video, nice to hear the commentary with it.

And the We Five...oh my but I loved their song.

You were lucky. Being stuck out on a farm in the Midwest, as a kid I didn't get to hear much til the Beatles came around and that was only cause they happened to be in Cincy on my brother's birthday. Got to see them both times they were down there and was sorely disappointed both times, cause all the other girls were having conniption fits, screaming, couldn't hear a thing. I just wanted to hear them play, cause I already knew their songs on guitar.

But once I left home, my kid's daddy and I went all over the place just to hear a band we liked. My thumb concert phase, I call it.

[pinboy3niner]

6. Love your magnet!

We never know who, among the bands we hear, will turn out to be "hot."

I was fortunate in a couple of cases, and I actually got The Association to play at my high school.

I also got to see the Beatles, also with a lot of screaming. We also had Bobby Hebb and others opening--and the tickets were under five bucks!

I think your concert experience is far broader than mine, as I often went for the Oldies concerts. One concert in MD in the '80s had the Righteous Brothers, BOTH the Temps and the Four Tops, Peter Noone (who is always a hoot), Gary Puckett, and a lot more. For that one I bought helium balloons and invited a lot of friends to come and find me. And they did, by following the balloons.

I still love Roger McGuinn's jingle-jangle twelve-string from The Byrds and John Fogerty doing his old CCR hits. I guess I'm just stuck in the past.

[countryjake]

7. Nah, we're not stuck...

it was good music.

We saw such a variety of bands and people, my former husband was more into the yippie stuff, the Dead, Cream, Airplane, while I was nuts on older stuff, doo-wop, folk, R&B, so we managed to broaden the experience for each other that way. I had to twist his arm to go see the Turner Revue, but he became a changed man after that. And I was freaked out by all the drugs the night we waited for hours to see the Stones, wanted to go home, but Aretha Franklin was opening for them, so I stuck it out and finally realized why everyone liked Jagger so much. That place was rockin'. (but I was still scared, didn't leave my seat when the whole audience was down on the floor, ha)


Remember this?

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8. The Shirelles played in my neighborhood a while back, right around the corner from me

Not a huge crowd, but we oldsters lapped it up. It was sad, though, to see them personally hawking their photos.

P.S. on my favoritism for Fogerty

In the mid '80s HBO sponsored, in the D.C. area, a Concert for Vietnam Veterans co-hosted by John Ritter and Jon Voight. Local Vet Centers handed out tickets, and I was there.

Fogerty was the highlight of the concert. He noted that he hadn't played his CCR tunes in years because he'd have to pay royalties to play his own songs. But for this occasion, he said, he'd play them for the vets. And he did.

Fogerty rocks!

[countryjake]

9. That's too cool!

I was just singing "Centerfield" tonight, as the Yankees kicked the Mariners' ass. I always do, especially when we're losing.

Yes indeedy. Fogerty rocks!

I know what ya mean about seeing the oldies nowadays. It makes me sad sometimes, too. But we still do it.

I had gotten Eric Andersen's signature on that album from the vid in my other reply. He came back to the US and did a small tour during the late eighties, came up here to play in a little coffee house, so I dug out my old tattered record and took it...he was tickled pink to see it and signed it again for me. Hardly anyone there had ever even heard of him, so it was a poignant moment for him when I walked up with my old album.

[Ilsa]

5. Wow. New music that I really like.

Talented team. Great voices, clear lyrics, new sound. This might be an album I'll buy. First time in a long time.