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So, live music is super important to us here at TuneUp. As such, we created a built-in concert alert system based on your favorite artists. Click on the concert tab and check out who’s coming to town. Cool, right? Now click the links, buy tickets and go see live music. It will make you a better person.
Here’s a bit on my first show without my mother:
The Year: 1988
The Artist: RUN DMC
The Venue: Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
I had seen posters advertising the show around town and had literally worn out my “Raising Hell” cassette. After quite a bit of coaxing, moms took me and my buddy (L Dubs) to the box office at Sears which is where you had to go to buy tickets. Weird. I couldn’t sleep the night before. Butterflies the whole day at school.
Needless to say, they absolutely killed it. They opened with “King of Rock”, smoke machines, Kangols, huge gold chains, trademark laceless shell toe Adidas. Throwing high fives to each other as they swaggered across the stage. Crowd on their feet. The energy was like nothing I had ever seen or felt. I left that show floating and when I saw the hand-printed lithograph on the telephone pole outside the venue I grabbed it. It sits above my desk today. Check it out.
Really? My first show was Run-DMC in 1986 at the Welsh in Grand Rapids. Did we ever make this connection?rnrnThis is Gabe, right?rnrnRun-DMC. Too Short. LL Cool J. Whodini. A young unknown trio from NYC called the Beastie Boys. And The Timex Social Club (”Stop spreadin them rumors”) Ha Ha damn. They used to load those bills.