Backstage Pass
September 27th, 2006Amy and I live in Santa Cruz. Actually, we live right across the street from Catalyst Night Club.
The headliner tonight is Good Charlotte — one of my all time favorite bands… and we are going!!! Santa Cruz is their first stop on the tour and their 1st time to play in over a year! The Catalyst is a medium sized venue about the size of the famed Metro in Chicago (way too many memories) but definitely off the beaten path — heck, you have to take Hwy 17 to get here!
Here’s the best part. It’s 5:55pm PDT and I can hear them doing a dry run of their play set… from my office! The window is wide open, I’m working hard on the eve of end-of-quarter, and the sounds of my favorite songs are carried across the street! Life couldn’t get better.
I want to thank Leon Chism for introducing me to great pre-popularized bands back in 2001/2 such as Less Than Jake, Good Charlotte, Blink, (and… the list goes on) while working at Orbitz. And I want to thank Tim Oakes for keeping the dream alive that, while at 31, I can still hang with the mosh pits, get drenched in sweat, and throw fists in the air to the songs of my favorite bands.
September 27th, 2006 at 8:50 pm
Dave,
26 years after falling into heavy-metal heaven with the hottest band in the world, KISS, I finally got to see them. Ironically enough this was on their Farewell tour. But 6 years later, they’re still at it. One good business model to learn from would be that KISS owned the name and the music from the get go and did not let managers take advantage of them and rip them off. Anyways, Im glad you got to hear and enjoy one of your favorite bands.
May 1st, 2007 at 4:14 am
Two things: 1. if you are going to mention, you, a band, and I in a post, it ought to have been Less Than Jake. About 10x better than GC and they have yet to be “over produced”. 2. Tim Oakes? _That_ Tim Oakes?