Sunday Links: AverageJoe format edition

by Poor College Student on Sep 12, 2010 6:00 AM CDT

Looking for links inside the text? No more! I'll be doing the links like Joe from now on until I forget next time.

Blues News:

Brett Sonne deposited the puck into the 4x6 twice to lead the Blues kids over the Lightning(s) kids. [Blues]
Just making sure you all saw Icion's FanShot concerning the finding of a majority investor for the Blues taking a big step forward. [SLGT]

NHL News:

Don Fehr is one step closer to becoming the NHLPA head honcho. His name will now be put to a vote by the members of the NHLPA. [TSN]
Puck Daddy has video footage of Guillaume Latendresse under hypnosis where he's convinced to put his skates on the wrong feet. There's a Brad Boyes "hitting the net" joke to be made somewhere. [Puck Daddy]
Justin Bourne analyzes the typical cliques found in any given locker room. [Puck Daddy]

Other Stuff:

I guess the competitors in women's water polo saw that Harlem Globetrotters de-pantsing gag and decided to take it to the next level. [Reuters]
Until hockey's regular season starts in about a month, we'll find a way to work with football. Chris Gift has the roadmap to which games are playing in your viewing area. [the506]

Video:

Carnie comes through for all of you again. Watermelon, meet face. Face, watermelon.

I've been in a Bob Dylan mood all weekend. Enjoy.

Open Thread:

What was the first concert that you bought your own ticket for?

My first concert I bought my own way to was an REO Speedwagon/Kansas/.38 Special show at ~~Riverport~~ ~~UMB Bank Pavilion~~ Verizon Wireless Ampitheatre. Damned if REO didn't play with everything they have, leaving me to wonder how they would've done in their younger days.

Share your tales of music in the comments.

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First concert I bought my own ticket for...

…was John Denver at Red Rocks Ampitheater, in the foothills above Denver. It’s the absolute best place in the world to see a concert, especially a John demver concert. Google “Red Rocks Park Colorado” to see what I mean.

"If we do not prepare for ourselves the role of the hammer, there will be nothing left but that of the anvil."

-- Otto von Bismarck, 1851

http://futurenotes.blogspot.com

by Tomorrows Blues on Sep 12, 2010 12:04 PM CDT reply actions

i've been

unfortunately not for a show, but good god is that place breathtaking. the city of denver in the distance to the left of the stage. i WILL go back someday for a show.

"If they don't score, we can't lose." - Gene Briggs

by ilikeboyes on Sep 12, 2010 1:58 PM CDT up reply actions

Turded

Red Rocks is the shizzle. The one show I regret missing there was SRV right before he died

Just a chew toy for the hockey gods

by spectr17 on Sep 12, 2010 3:16 PM CDT up reply actions

John Denver

was the first I bought also.
Not at Red Rocks unfortunately. But I agree it is beautiful. I’ve been twice as a child/teen and once about 12 yrs ago

Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records.

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. Laura Ingalls Wilder

by luvhockey on Sep 12, 2010 8:19 PM CDT up reply actions

hmm

i’ll be the only one here (and perhaps in bljues nation, whose first concert ticket purchase was for loudon wainwright III at mississippi nights.

for those who don’t know him, he was in the early season of mash as a troubadore, his hit was dead skunk (which he did NOT perform and as far as i know has refused to perform forever).

i have to say i’ve always had a soft sport for humor in music, the third, the tubes, 10cc, the residents, et al.

and according to loudon rufus is a tit man

A strong anvil fears no hammer

by Childhood Trauma on Sep 12, 2010 12:05 PM CDT reply actions

cdrud

link to the titties

never said he was high class :)

A strong anvil fears no hammer

by Childhood Trauma on Sep 12, 2010 12:05 PM CDT up reply actions

The next hockey game in the St. Louis area is Sept. 24.

The St. Louis Bandits will be facing the Topeka Roadrunners at home in Chesterfield.

by Paperwork Ninja on Sep 12, 2010 12:51 PM CDT reply actions

First concert?..

my first concert was a 98 degrees concert when I was in second grade.

Second concert, the one I actually bought tickets for, was a Maroon Five concert in 11th grade.

My next concert will be a Billy Talent or Static X concert.

"I wanna be an achiever like Bad Horse.... I meant Ghandi" ~ Dr. Horrible

by Carnie on Sep 12, 2010 2:59 PM CDT reply actions

1st concert I bought my ticket for

was Johnny Winter at Kiel Auditorium, 1972 maybe. Before that we snuck in to watch bands at the Airway Drive In in St. Ann. Foghat, ZZ Top. Ted Nugent & the Amboy Dukes all played that drive in back when those bands first started out. I was maybe 12 then.

Just a chew toy for the hockey gods

by spectr17 on Sep 12, 2010 3:23 PM CDT reply actions

Johnny Winter FTW!!!

"If we do not prepare for ourselves the role of the hammer, there will be nothing left but that of the anvil."

-- Otto von Bismarck, 1851

http://futurenotes.blogspot.com

by Tomorrows Blues on Sep 13, 2010 8:18 AM CDT up reply actions

Alice In Chains a couple years ago...

right after they got back together. they played an acoustic show at the pageant. It was great!

by nintendofan24 on Sep 12, 2010 3:29 PM CDT reply actions

If ozzfest doesn’t count then Behemoth/Dragonforce/Killswitch at the pageant.

He raged at the world, at his family, at his life. But mostly he just raged.
Just because Jay McClement is the best defensive forward in the NHL doesn't mean he should win the Selke.

by Icion on Sep 12, 2010 5:03 PM CDT reply actions

Dave Matthews Band, August 2002, Riverport.

I believe I came home with a contact high after 3+ hours of awesome music. Dude can work an acoustic guitar like a fucking wizard.

St. Louis Game Time . . . I need another beer.
And I can also write things in 140 characters or fewer.

by Donut King on Sep 13, 2010 12:55 AM CDT reply actions

Yes, sometime in the mid-70s in the old barn on Oakland

Man I miss that place. I still look at the spot every time I drive past it on Highway 40.

Funny, I was just trying to remember which concert was my first the other day.

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. But that's the way to bet. - Damon Runyon

by baroose on Sep 13, 2010 7:05 AM CDT reply actions

The annex next to the old barn was a popular spot

for concerts back then. I was too young to get in but I remember many of the fountainheadz from Northwest Plaza heading down there to watch bands like Iggy Pop.

Other concert venus like the Fox Theatre, Rainy Days, Mississippi River Festival, Chuck Berry’s farm, Forest Park bring back some memories. I seem to remember seeing The Who at the old barn circa maybe 1972 or 1973 maybe. I’ve got some of my old concert tickets and will have to look to check on that date and where it was.

Just a chew toy for the hockey gods

by spectr17 on Sep 13, 2010 7:48 PM CDT up reply actions

Clash of the Titans Tour, 1991

At the Prairie Capital Convention Center in Springfield. It was loud and awesome. Since then the only other concert I’ve paid to see has been Adrian Belew in 1994, shortly after my 21st birthday. The rest of the time, people just seem to comp me tickets or use of a skybox. I guess I look broke and in need of a concert or something.

by Paperwork Ninja on Sep 13, 2010 9:59 AM CDT reply actions

1st Concert

The Outfield
1987 Westport Playhouse
First time on I-270 in my Mom’s Chevy Celebrity
Fake ID denied for booze at the show and I was pulled over on the way home for erratic driving since I was lost as shit trying to get home to Illinois
Good Times

by jammd12 on Sep 13, 2010 8:45 PM CDT reply actions