Another great acquisition by my wife.
Category: music
Front 242
We went to see Front 242 last night here in Dallas, at the Granada Theater.
First a little bragging. My amazing wife got us front row balcony seats. We could sit for the whole show and no one could stand in front of us. The balcony at the Granada is a fantastic place to see a show.
This was to be the band’s last live tour. The guys are getting up there. They are a little older than me, and they’ve been doing this since about 1983. They’ve earned a rest.
We’ve seen them once before, same venue, 2017.
The show as great. I love the imagery Front 242 uses on the screen. Just amazing. The crowd was generally older and cool. Not the kind of crowd you encounter so often these days where people are standing in groups talking while the band plays.
Johnny Marr
Last night we went to see Johnny Marr and his band perform at the Majestic Theater, in Dallas.
The Majestic is a great venue. There’s not a bad seat in the house, and it’s a classic-looking oldschool performance hall.

The sound was great. Johnny and his bad were great as well. My wife was lucky enough to see the Smiths play Dallas at the Bronco Bowl back in the late 1980s. This is the closest I will come. Yes, we have seen Morrissey a couple of times, but frankly I don’t like his solo material, and he’s annoying. Johnny Marr played three or four Smiths songs, and his versions of the songs are all really good. Obviously the guitar sounds similar, but the rest of the band is very different.
A fantastic show.
The opening band, James, is not really my thing. Kinda hippy stuff. A lot of the crowd really liked them though, so it’s fine.
So at risk of repeating myself, probably my favorite things to do is listen to music with my wife and going to see shows with her. The Smiths are certainly one of her top 5 bands, and are high on my list as well. She saw them many years ago, before we started dating. Being there with her to hear Johnny Marr play some of those songs meant a lot to me. It’s times like that when we feel like we are in our early 20s again. I wish I could have shared that Smiths show with her, so this was a big deal.

Yesterday’s listening
Had some time free for listening to music and sitting in my chair yesterday. So that’s what I did. Let me once again emphasize the pleasure of having a nice stereo. And a good music collection.
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Echo and the Bunnymen
We went to see Echo and the Bunnymen last night in Dallas.
It was awesome.
Going to shows with my wife is one of my great joys in life. That she and I share so many musical preferences is one of the others. While we stood there “on the floor” of this show next to our friend John and Tina, with all the other middle-aged fans, my feet did hurt, but other than that I felt like we were in our early 20s again. I always feel like that with her at shows.