So after 30 years, I finally got to hear the song I was obsessed with in the late 1980s and early 1990s, “RED HILL MINING TOWN” played live in concert in Chicago – and I cried all the way through it. Oh I wish I could go back and tell my 14 year old self this, so I would not have been SO [continue reading]
I have been an avid U2 fan since 1987 when I was 14. Some say obsessed, but I like to say passionate. I discovered U2 in March 1987 with the release of The Joshua Tree. I heard With or Without You and liked it. I realized U2 was the same group that sang that song Pride I had heard a few years [continue reading]
Who doesn’t like Frank Sinatra? He was the original teen idol. Although I wasn’t around then, Frank has ties to my two favorites Elvis Presley and U2. Frank said this about Elvis in the 1950s, “His kind of music is deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac…It fosters almost [continue reading]
A favorite of mine that begins with U is U2, my favorite band. More than my favorite band, U2 is one of my greatest passions. And as such, U2 has two shelves of memorabilia in my place as well as walls of posters and a display of hundreds of cds and dvds. My passion for U2 began 25 years ago. I [continue reading]
My musical journey on the road with U2 started 20 years ago today in Hampton, Virginia. It was Saturday March 7, 1992, and I was 19. My first U2 show was the fifth of the ZooTv Tour. On the morning of March 7th, my best friend, Cindy, and I drove four hours south from Ellicott City, MD to Hampton, [continue reading]
One of the things I said I would do in 2012 is to ‘read more and watch less.’ I just finished my first book of 2012, Tim Tebow’s memoir Through My Eyes. It was a good book, very inspirational. Tim chronicled in great detail his football career as a boy while he was home schooled, [continue reading]
When I look back, I will see 2011 as a watershed year for me. It was a year when my entire life changed – for the better. I started the year in Memphis and ended it back home in Maryland – and in between drove 18,000 miles through 31 states in search of a drummer. I saw all 16 U2 360 [continue reading]
