Soundgarden recorded a song called Sub Pop Rock City for release on the record label Sub Pop's compilation Sub Pop 200. Jonathon and Bruce were the owners of the label. One verse of the song goes:

[Phone ringing]
Hello?
Actual phone call recording: "This is Jonathan."
Hey Jon
"I just want to know what the heck is going on."
Well, you know, I have this problem
"What the heck is going on?"
Yeah, ok, do you think you would have too much trouble if we got rid of our sideburns?
"At your earliest convenience."
Well, I know, you said that before, but do you think Bruce would mind?
"This is Bruce Pavitt."
Hey Bruce, I mean, ok, can we have our drummer back please?
"Bye!"

I turned down an opportunity to see Depeche Mode with my work friends in order to go to Austin and help my sister celebrate her 35th birthday. Am I good brother or what?

Paul McCartney is here and CK and I have tickets to the show tonight. The hard part: getting to the show. There is a Rangers game going on at almost the same time not too far from the stadium and practically all of DFW will be converging on the area. I'm taking a train to CK's office's part of town and then we're driving to the stadium together. Hopefully, we'll make it on time.

The Paul concert was pretty amazing. He played a lot of songs from his solo and wings years I didn't know, but there all good. I was just anxious to hear all the Beatles I'd been waiting years to hear, and he did not leave us hanging. The set list is below, with some comments from me.

01. Drive My Car
02. Jet
03. Only Mama Knows
04. Flaming Pie
05. Got To Get You Into My Life
06. Let Me Roll It / Foxy Lady ending (Story about Jimi Hendrix asking Eric Clapton to come on stage and help him tune his guitar at a show after Jimi went crazy with the whammy bar, sending his guitar out of tune.)
07. Highway
08. All My Loving
09. The Long And Winding Road
10. My Love
11. Blackbird (story about civil rights movement, and how this song was about the events in Birmingham)
12. Here Today (John Lennon tribute. Paul said he wrote this for John after he died, and mentioned that sometimes you never tell your friends the things you want to tell them when they are around. This song is what Paul wanted to say to John).
13. Dance Tonight
14. Calico Skies
15. Mrs Vanderbilt
16 It's so Easy (Buddy Holly cover. Paul said that one of their favorite musicians while growing up was from Lubbock - Buddy Holly. So just for this show, the only time he’d played this song live, they did the song for us).
17. Eleanor Rigby
18. Sing The Changes
19. Band On The Run
20. Back In The USSR

21. I'm Down
22. Something (George Harrison tribute, first half was Paul playing solo with a ukulele George gave him. Second half was played with full band.)
23. I've Got A Feeling
24. Paperback Writer
25. A Day In The Life / Give Peace A Chance
26. Let It Be
27. Live And Let Die
28. Hey Jude

First Encore
29. Day Tripper
30. Lady Madonna
31. I Saw Her Standing There

Second Encore
32. Yesterday
33. Helter Skelter
34. Get Back
35. Sgt. Pepper Reprise/The End

I've been keeping track of every concert and show I've seen in my entire life for a long time. I previously kept the list in a .doc file linked on the right side of this page. I decided to finally make it a webpage instead.

I also added individual archive pages for the various authors that have authored on this blog.

See "Syllabus" for the new links.