6 July 2009: 1980

[mshray]

OMFG2 and BOS2 too: "Twist And Crawl" -- proxy of shray while we're at it.

Thanks!  got in late, only heard the second half of Devo.

[ggould]

I tried to kill a gopher yesterday, but he was too fast for me!

[Tinka Cat]

this set is up there, Althea's absence notwithstanding.

I was lucky enough to see the Pretenders before half the orig lineup died off.  One of my fave concerts.

[urth]

BOSWhatever (6 I think) to the Pretenders, Up the Neck. Also not a bustout, but only played twice in new sets (and twice in classics). 1980 was a pretty great year for rock music, as this set is demonstrating.

[RGMike]

Wow! BOS6 OMD, "Enola Gay". I am MOST impressed this morning.

[Davefish]

this set is up there, Althea's absence notwithstanding.

I was lucky enough to see the Pretenders before half the orig lineup died off.  One of my fave concerts.

I decided on an impulse to see them this summer at the Mountain Winery.  I've never been a big fan, but they are legendary at this point.  Hope it's good...

[ggould]

this set is up there, Althea's absence notwithstanding.

I was lucky enough to see the Pretenders before half the orig lineup died off.  One of my fave concerts.

I saw them open for U2 at Oakland Stadium; I don't remember which members were still alive then.  I think that was the Joshua Tree tour

[mshray]

OMG for OMD!

BOS "Enola Gay"

[urth]

this set is up there, Althea's absence notwithstanding.

I was lucky enough to see the Pretenders before half the orig lineup died off.  One of my fave concerts.

I saw 'em a couple of times in 81 and early 82 as well. Great, great band--they're still darn good but now it's all about Chrissie--back then they were a band.

[ggould]

Wow! BOS6 OMD, "Enola Gay". I am MOST impressed this morning.

I wonder how many fans of OMD know what the Enola Gay was!
 

[ggould]

VVHM for Solid Rock!

[urth]

this set is up there, Althea's absence notwithstanding.

I was lucky enough to see the Pretenders before half the orig lineup died off.  One of my fave concerts.

I saw them open for U2 at Oakland Stadium; I don't remember which members were still alive then.  I think that was the Joshua Tree tour

The two guys who died, Pete Farndon and James Honeyman-Scott, died within a couple of months of each other in 1982. Drugs and/or drink, iirc.

ETA: I stand corrected on the dates. Honeyman-Scott died in June '82 of a cocaine OD. Farndon died in April of '83, OD'ing on heroin. In my mind they were closer together.

[ggould]

this set is up there, Althea's absence notwithstanding.

I was lucky enough to see the Pretenders before half the orig lineup died off.  One of my fave concerts.

I saw them open for U2 at Oakland Stadium; I don't remember which members were still alive then.  I think that was the Joshua Tree tour

The two guys who died, Pete Farndon and James Honeyman-Scott, died within a couple of months of each other in 1982. Drugs and/or drink, iirc.

iirc there were personnel changes before the deaths too.

[RGMike]

Wow! BOS6 OMD, "Enola Gay". I am MOST impressed this morning.

I wonder how many fans of OMD know what the Enola Gay was!
 

indeed, i worked with a guy who had no idea and thought "Enola" was an anagram for "Alone" -- "alone gay", so he thought the song was fraught with meaning that it didn't actually have.

VHM "Solid Rock".

And I also saw the Pretenders a couple times in '80 and '81; including a Central Park concert that gave rise to the great mondegreen "Mystery G-Man", yelled out repeatedly by the idiot sitting behind me.

[Tinka Cat]

this set is up there, Althea's absence notwithstanding.

I was lucky enough to see the Pretenders before half the orig lineup died off.  One of my fave concerts.

I saw them open for U2 at Oakland Stadium; I don't remember which members were still alive then.  I think that was the Joshua Tree tour

The two guys who died, Pete Farndon and James Honeyman-Scott, died within a couple of months of each other in 1982. Drugs and/or drink, iirc.

that sounds correct.  Farndon chewed gum the whole time onstage.  At one point he had to remove it (for some extended backup vox) so he stuck it on the mic stand.  Song was finished and the gum went back in.  I also recell him spitting the gum high overhead and then catching it w his mouth.  he also crawled inside the speaker cabinet on the side of the stage, playing the whole time.  What a bad boy.  James H-S was freaking incredible that night, too.  We were about 10 yards directly in front of the stage and one of his extended solos used the stereo effect to great ... effect.    good times.