Monday, August 10, 2009

My Life According to Squeeze

RULES: Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions. Pass it on to a bunch of people including me. You can't use the band I used. Try not to repeat a song title. It's a lot harder than you think! Re-post as "My Life According to (BAND NAME)"

1. Are you a male or female?
A Man for All Seasons

2. Describe yourself:
I Think I'm Go Go

3. How do you feel:
Slaughtered, Gutted and Heartbroken

4. Describe where you currently live:
King George Street

5. If you could go anywhere, where would you go:
Piccadilly

6. Your favorite form of transportation:
The Elephant Ride

7. Your best friend:
Vicky Verky

8. Your favorite color is:
True Colors

9. What's the weather like:
Wild Sewerage Tickles Brazil

10. Favorite time of day:
In the Morning

11. If your life was a TV show, what would it be called:
Gone to the Dogs

12. What is life to you:
The Truth

13. Your current relationship:
House of Love

14. Looking for:
All the King's Horses

15. Wouldn’t mind:
Everything in the World

16. Your fear:
Going Crazy

17. What is the best advice you have to give:
Walk a Straight Line

18. If you could change your name, you would change it to:
Dr. Jazz

19. Thought for the Day:
All's Well that Ends Well

20. How I would like to die:
Third Rail

21. My motto:
Take Me, I'm Yours

69 Concerts

OK, here are the rules. Test your memory and your love of live music by listing 50 or so artists or bands (or as many as you can remember) you've seen in concert. List the first 50 acts that come into your head. 

1. KISS

2. Judas Priest

3. Cheap Trick

4. Queen

5. The Rolling Stones

6. The Who

7. Rush

8. Crosby, Stills and Nash

9. Joe Walsh

10. Jon Butcher Axis

11. Stevie Nicks

12. Sparks

13. Squeeze

14. Stray Cats

15. Jetboy

16. Crash Test Dummies

17. Crowded House

18. Squirrel Nut Zippers

19. Rod Stewart

20. Robby Krieger

21. Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros

22. Billy Idol

23. The Cult

24. They Might Be Giants

25. NRBQ

26. Flight of the Conchords

27. Jill Sobule

28. Los Bukis

29. Burton Cummings

30. Little Feat

31. Giant

32. Kenny Loggins

33. Meatloaf

34. Right Said Fred (I know!)

35. Great Big Sea

36. Glenn Tilbrook and the Fluffers

37. Paul McCartney

38. The Waifs

39. Jimmy Eat World

40. Weezer

41. Dashboard Confessional'

42. The Old Ceremony

43. The B-52s

44. Beatlemania

45. T-Bone Burnett

46. Rick Springfield (don't you judge me!)

47. American Music Club

48. Nick Harper

49. The Spring Standards

50. Chris Difford

51. Aimee Mann

52. Alice Cooper

53. Stevie Wonder

54. Little Richard

55. Brian Wilson

56. Elvis Costello

57. Nick Lowe

58. Carbon Leaf

59. Southern Culture on the Skids

60. Dwight Yoakam

61. 1964

62. Blur

63. The Specials

64. New Order

65. Imelda May

66. Vintage Trouble

67. Ace Frehley

68. Iron Maiden

69. Ghost

This was my second concert, Cheap Trick. They played at the Charleston Civic Center in W.Va. My friend Ikechi and I waited outside all afternoon and managed to be in the very front. Again, this shot is without any kind of special lens. This was how close I was to the stage. This is Rick Nielson (in case you didn't know already).