{"id":1618,"date":"2017-05-01T13:11:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T17:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2017-05-01T15:20:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T19:20:15","slug":"concert-stories-an-aprilconcertchallenge-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/2017\/05\/01\/concert-stories-an-aprilconcertchallenge-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"concert stories: an #aprilconcertchallenge collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, a Facebook meme made the rounds asking users to list \u201c10 Concerts I\u2019ve Been To, One is a Lie.\u201d While I\u2019m game for almost any music list meme, I didn\u2019t participate because I got sucked into into a smaller one on Instagram created by an old punk rocker @bookishlife<\/a>: the #aprilconcertchallenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I think you were supposed to take pictures of your old ticket stubs, a level of collecting obsessiveness I never succumbed to. But I do collect memories about concerts I\u2019ve gone to, which of course are never just about concerts. As I wrote in one of these posts,<\/p>\n

Concerts are where I re-imagine who I am, where I came from, and what I aspire toward. Concerts are how I connect with strangers, engage with places, and create a common history with friends. At even the most dull events, concerts are where I create the stories to share with friends, family, and strangers, and in that way help me narrate the arc of my biographical narrative. Even when those stories seem to be just about the music.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since I\u2019ve written here previously about concerts<\/a> and even concert flyers<\/a> that in some way changed my life, I\u2019m compiling my #aprilconcertchallenge responses here for possible future development and inspiration. Long-time readers might recognize a couple of these photos from previous blogs. I invite you to click on this blog\u2019s \u201cperformance\u201d<\/a> tag for more I\u2019ve written about on this subject. Thanks again to Andrea Thorson for a very stimulating set of questions and a wonderful occasion to hear some memorable, often funny, and occasionally moving stories from strangers.<\/p>\n

[Click below on Part one, Part two, or Part three to begin.]<\/p>\n

Part one<\/a><\/strong><\/span>
\n1. First show
\n2. Most recent
\n3. Festival
\n4. Favorite venue
\n5. Band you\u2019ve seen the most
\n6. Road-tripped to the show
\n7. Met the band
\n8. Hard to score tickets
\n9. Went solo
\n10. Went with someone special<\/p>\n

Part two<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\n11. Awesome opening band
\n12. Mellow show\/crowd
\n13. Wild show\/crowd
\n14. Bought tickets but didn\u2019t go
\n15. Friend\u2019s band
\n16. Best band to sing along with
\n17. Auditorium\/big show
\n18. Story from the pit
\n19. Basement show
\n20. Show you traveled farthest for<\/p>\n

Part three<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\n21. Not what you expected
\n22. Exactly what you expected
\n23. Saw them before they were big
\n24. Got an autograph
\n25. Once was enough
\n26. Reunion
\n27. Saw them before they broke up
\n28. Memorable for a reason unrelated to the music
\n29. Solo artist
\n30. One show you would go back to see again if you could time travel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, a Facebook meme made the rounds asking users to list \u201c10 Concerts I\u2019ve Been To, One is a Lie.\u201d While I\u2019m game for almost any music list meme, I didn\u2019t participate because I got sucked into into a smaller one on Instagram created by an old punk rocker @bookishlife: the #aprilconcertchallenge. I think you were supposed to take pictures of your old ticket stubs, a level of collecting obsessiveness I never succumbed to. But I do collect memories about concerts I\u2019ve gone to, which of course are never just about concerts. As I wrote in one of these posts, Concerts are where I re-imagine who I am, where I came from, and what I aspire toward. Concerts are how I connect with strangers, engage with places, and create a common history with friends. At even the most dull events, concerts are where I create the stories to share with friends, family, and strangers, and in that way help me narrate the arc of my biographical narrative. Even when those stories seem to be just about the music. Since I\u2019ve written here previously about concerts and even concert flyers that in some way changed my life, I\u2019m compiling my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":1619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43773,43762,43644,43776,43777,241,43675,43661],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-collective-memory","tag-communion","tag-festival","tag-heavy-metal","tag-nostalgia","tag-performance","tag-punk-rock","tag-touring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1634,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions\/1634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}