when I do a meme. Ganked from happinesstogo. I’m actually feeling a tad ill, so it’s therapeutic to get such things out of my system, i guess.

Copy this list; leave in the bands you’ve seen perform live; delete the ones you haven’t, and add new ones that you have seen until you reach 25. An asterisk means the previous person had it on their list. Two asterisks means the last two people who did this before you had that band on their list.

So many concerts over the years it feels like a list of 25 is a real cheat. But hey, those are the rules.

1. The Who
2. Deep Purple
3. Bruce Springsteen
4. The Grateful Dead*
5. U2
6. Buddy Guy and Junion Wells
7. Pharoah Sanders
8. Eric B. and Rakim
9. Public Enemy*
10. KISS
11. Greg Brown*
12. Richie Havens*
13. The Clash
14. The Ramones
15. Bob Dylan
16. The Cure*
17. The Violent Femmes*
18. Elvis Costello
19. Patti Smith
20. B.B.King
21. James Brown
22. The Replacements
23. Metallica
24. Motley Crue
25. Black Sabbath

Christ. I’m not even scratching the surface with 25. Keep in mind that I used to do concert security, so some of these bands I saw while on the job and not by choice.

I’m adding ten more.

26. Frank Sinatra
27. Santana
28. REM
29. Fugazi
30. Boiled In Lead
31. Peter Gabriel
32. Sting
33. Boston (9 hellfucking nights in a shitfucking row…I’ve never been the same, I swear)
34. Devo
35. ZZ Top

Still have barely touched the club years and all the little bands I’ve seen that later got big, the old blues guys, the local bands…

Never fails.

There’s a documentary/dramatization of Flight 11 on. I’m watching it, despite my best intentions.

I know there will be nothing about my friends in the show, but I am watching it anyway.

Why do I do this?

till the anniversary.

it’s not bothering me as much this year, for some reason…maybe the fifth anniversary was the last step from immediate pain to the lessening of sorrow and the turning of grief into remembrance.

i still think it led me to where I am now…that it was the catalyst for so many life changes I’ve been through since then.

strangely, I will be at the company next week…got a contract for a couple of days of training there. I will visit the memorial garden, see what’s been left for them, and think of all of them…Tara, Susan, Robin, Christine, Neilie, Lisa, and Linda…

and that will be that, again, till the next reminder…