The best, very best, concerts you have attended

[jim goulding]

3 box- There are no good seats near the porta potties in my experience. Besides, I didn't look that bad. I'm encouraged. So, here's another from me. Fort Worth, again. I know I should expand. Maybe next time. The Blue Bird nite spot. Robert Ealey and His Five Careless Lovers were the house band but, tonite, July 4th, it was The Fabulous Thunderbirds with a horn section! This was a one room shack with a beer box and a single water cooler unit for an A/C. It was packed. It musta been 110 degrees in there when people hit the dance floor. When you think about it, all bands probably played tiny places like this comin up. I caught SRV like this, too, Albert King, and Howlin Wolf in a legendary BYOB venue. Wouldn't trade it for nuthin. Don't mind me . . I'm just feelin it. What's your best shot?.


(much later) Actually, that was Freddie King but Albert would have been good.

[bobsticks]

So the bottom line is that Jar and Hell see cooler shows than I do,and jonnyhambone would if he could stay in the venue. Damn Bone, that's rough and I've been there. That didn't happen to lead to that 5-style head spinning a la Linda Blair projectile vomitting, eh?
The stereo-panned laugh track on Dominion/Mother Russia got me pretty good like that. Ugh...
We serve an old man in a dry season
A lighthouse keeper in the desert sun
Dreamers and sleepers and white treason
We dream of rain and the history of the gun
There's a lighthouse in the middle of Russia
A Kino Runner for the DDR
And the fifty-two daughters of the revolution
Turn the gold to chrome
Gift...nothing to lose
Stuck inside of Memphis with the mobile home.Sing...



jim, you're the man, the king of the small venue show. Albert King simply rawks.