Digable Planets - Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat)
Digable Planets was the first paid concert I saw in school. We were probably a few weeks into the year when I saw fliers with their faces posted up on bulletin boards. I grabbed some tickets in no time. Probably because ever since I saw the above video I'd been infatuated with Ladybug. And, of course, in the small campus pub environment of the show, I soon found myself up front and Ladybug threw down some sweet verse while gripping my hand for an entire song and looking into my eyes like some intense poetic vixen. I was 18. I was a dork. And she had me completely transfixed.
But then they moved on to the next song and she let go of my hand and turned her attention back to the audience at large and I came back to reality with a thud. In any case, Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat) is classic. I wish Digable stuck around longer than they did - but record companies were more interested in numbnuts like Ja Rule instead. Such is life.
Sunscreem - Love U More
Our campus also had these free shows on Friday nights called TG's (short for TGIF's which is lame but it worked in the early 90's), and I think Sunscreem was the first band to perform right when we started class. They were known for their one song, Love U More (seen above), and pretty much nothing else. I remember going with a bunch of folks from the dorms to see them play, but I don't really remember the concert itself. Could be that I'm old and senile or that they really were forgettable.
But then, there's the first BIG show I saw back in school:
U2 - Until The End Of The World (Live)
So the Zoo TV tour pretty much kicked ass. Sure, Bono's ego had increased to megalomaniacal proportions by 1992, but experiencing those tracks from Achtung Baby come to life for the first time was priceless. Except for the fact that to balance my budget for buying that ticket I ate nothing but cafeteria food and Top Ramen for the next month. But worth it, bar none.
Have a great weekend folks (or you, lone folk person, who is probably the only one reading this).
3 comments:
Great memories here. My first college concert: The then-unknown Violent Femmes touring in the fall of 1983 to support their debut album. I was walking near my college campus with a friend when we saw a poster for the show. She said, "With a name like Violent Femmes, how can we resist?" A few days later, we were part of a small crowd of the curious cheering the Femmes on in an art school cafeteria.
Catching the Violent Femmes before they hit it big in some art school cafeteria? Nice work!
ah yes, digable planets first had that sound/style which made me like arrested development the minute i heard them.
them there was some good music.
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