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[KeithHernandez]

I'm pretty sure James brown did that for a coke break, not to change shirts.

[pmcd9]

This was the view from my car at last years Summerfest. Having an artcar has definite advantages. No parking miles away in some remote parking lot and having to tote a limited amount of goodies inside.  Hell no, I bring a full cooler of food and drink and whatever else I want to bring inside with me and park right in clear view of the stage. I watch the show from the hood of my car while nubile 20 somethings take turns dancing on the cars built in stripper pole.  It's a fuck*ng awesome deal.

Last year was cool. Weezer and Ween headlined.  Cut Copy rocked.  This year is going to be even better.  Flaming Lips, Avett Bros. Snoop Dogg, and Willie Nelson are on the bill.  I am so looking forward to this. 

[miles]

Has anyone see Social D lately? Is it worth dropping $35-40 a ticket?

[Nabubrush]

Oof! Ash is a fan.

[Nabubrush]

I'd have paid to see them back when, but I'm not sure about $40. I'm pretty sure Bad Brains was like $20.

[Nabubrush]

Oh, yeah, but that was a recent Bad Brains show. On the other hand, shows are usually pretty cheap in Portland so I don't know what they get for a Social D show, and also the dude from Bad Brains isn't doing his best work anymore.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Thing I wish I had more of in my life: local friends who like music and like to go to shows.  I post things like "The Avett Brothers are playing at the Patriot Center next Friday, anyone wanna go?" to Facebook and I hear jack shit back. Then I think about who I would actually expect to answer that affirmatively, and I'm coming up blank. My friends who like the same music I do all live elsewhere. That bites my ass.

[Carlos del Vaca]

That is VERY lucky, on multiple levels. I seem to be having a hard time getting my girls interested in music. They like Taylor Swift and top 40 schlock. They're still young, and there's plenty of time to develop good taste, but if they go off to college still liking (what is in my opinion) shitty music, I'll feel like a failure.

[theinevitable]

Based on most of my friends, I think if you like good music and aren't too pushy about it, they will come around in one way or another. All of my friends seem to have parents who are really into good music. I am the outlier with parents who only like boring music. I wonder how that works out. My roommate's dad worked at our old radio station in the 70s, and interviewed cool bands on-air back in the day.

Lately I have been seeing my roommates' band a lot. They are getting better and better. I really need to be in a band. I told one of the guys in their band that we need to start a side-thing where we play unschooled folk/country-rock.

[KeithHernandez]

That is VERY lucky, on multiple levels. I seem to be having a hard time getting my girls interested in music. They like Taylor Swift and top 40 schlock. They're still young, and there's plenty of time to develop good taste, but if they go off to college still liking (what is in my opinion) shitty music, I'll feel like a failure.

Until I was 14 I only liked Hootie and the Blowgiraffe and Alanis Morrisette.  I actually kind of hated music.  Then my dad played me a Bob Dylan record and I am over a decade in of being completely obsessed with almost all music.  I also started smoking weed and cigarettes like mad within a month of hearing Bob Dylan only because of Bob Dylan, so, that ain't too good, but, yeah...  I listened to (1962-1967) Bob Dylan almost constantly from ages 14-17, read Tarantula, etc., then Radiohead, The Flaming Lips, Modest penis and Blur got me into current/rock.  Now I can discuss everything from Herb Albert to The Tornadoes to Black Sabbath to Bad Religion and such, so, yeah, if it is meant to be it is meant to be, but before puberty isn't necessarily a deciding factor I would say.

[pmcd9]

"The Avett Brothers are playing at the Patriot Center next Friday, anyone wanna go?"

I'm gonna watch the Avett Brothers next month from the comfort of my car.  It'll be a drive in concert.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Will you fire off the flames at opportune moments?

[Nabubrush]

Keith, that is as shocking an admission as I think I have ever seen here. I would not have seen that coming in a million years.

I have a friend who will go to any show I invite her to, as I will in reverse for her. Every experience has been eminently satisfying.

[miles]

Until I was 14 I only liked Hootie and the Blowgiraffe and Alanis Morrisette.  I actually kind of hated music.  Then my dad played me a Bob Dylan record and I am over a decade in of being completely obsessed with almost all music.  I also started smoking weed and cigarettes like mad within a month of hearing Bob Dylan only because of Bob Dylan, so, that ain't too good, but, yeah...  I listened to (1962-1967) Bob Dylan almost constantly from ages 14-17, read Tarantula, etc., then Radiohead, The Flaming Lips, Modest c*ck and Blur got me into current/rock.  Now I can discuss everything from Herb Albert to The Tornadoes to Black Sabbath to Bad Religion and such, so, yeah, if it is meant to be it is meant to be, but before puberty isn't necessarily a deciding factor I would say.

This is almost exactly my experience down to the age I discovered Dylan, except it took me two years after that to starting smoking anything and I have always hated Hootie and Alanis (though I can't remember and don't care to look into how old I was when those guys were popular so maybe it's not fair to point that out). Before Dylan I was pretty obsessed with music. I loved Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens as far back as I can remember, and was really into "Oldies" growing up. To me this meant CCR, the Beatles, Motown, early Stones, and other similar stuff from the 60s. I also liked rap. And right before Dylan I was really into Hendrix and Led Zeppelin, and of course Nirvana, Mudhoney, Pearl Jam and all that. But after Dylan, it was over. For several years I had no room for anything but music. Not even sports, and barely any room for movies or reading.

Oh yeah, I introduced my dad to Dylan. That's kind of weird.

[pmcd9]

Will you fire off the flames at opportune moments?

Yes, of course