My First Rock Concert

A current meme in the social nets has people reporting the first rock concert they attended. 

I honestly don't recall mine. Dad worked at the University Union in Bowling Green, which had shows in the ballroom*.  Dad would frequently work the sound at the shows.

Groups like Three Dog Night and The Association (yes, I'm that old.) would come through. I remember getting a drum stick after the Three Dog Night show. I also saw Louie Louis (yeesh) Armstrong in BG.

Maybe the first one I got myself into was a Harry Chapin concert, also at BG. Elton John came through around that time, but his current hit was a soundtrack for a chick flick called "Friends". I was too cool for that of course. But Madman Across the Water came out next and I was sorry I had skipped his show.

That's right, I went to see Harry Chapin, but was too cool for Elton John.

I'm pretty sure my brother's first concert was when I took him to see Bruce Springsteen at Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento. That's enough to spoil a person. A site I just found claims there were only 600 of us there. 

I took Lilah to her first concert, Alanis Morisette, at Cal Expo. One of the nicest venues I've been to, but alas, it was an outdoor theater and the neighbors brought it down. Molly thinks her first concert might have been U2, in 7th grade.

* The ballroom is now named after a colleague of my dad's, Dick Lenhart. The Lenharts were in my folks' will as the family that would get the four of us kids. That will was in effect until about the year 2000, or 27 years after we moved from Ohio. I offer that as an explanation for my own lack of enthusiasm in dealing with life's important paperwork.

Audrey Hepburn and the War, featuring her childhood drawings

Audrey Hepburn, who appears in several movies I've enjoyed, lived as a refugee in the Netherlands during WWII.

During the Dutch famine over the winter of 1944, the Germans confiscated the Dutch people’s limited food and fuel supply for themselves. Without heat in their homes or food to eat, people in the Netherlands starved and froze to death in the streets. Hepburn and many other Dutch people had to resort to using flour made from tulip bulbs to bake cakes and cookies.

This post has artwork of hers from that time.

Little Wing - Eric Clapton & Sheryl Crow

Riffing off of Derek and the Dominos 'version' - not surprisingly.
Fun to listen to and watch how Sheryl Crow looks at Clapton early on, when they first start singing. This is why boys learn to play guitar. They want someone to look at them like that.