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bench coach for the Red Sox. the selection could have been worse...believe me.
Milestone strike out victim of Nolan Ryan, which moved Ryan past Walter Johnson.
General Mills. Heh. Well, as noted above, he was Ryan's Special K, if you will.
Now, if the Sox could give Varitek Mills' old job, they'd get all the benefit of the things he does well (preparing for games, understanding pitchers and hitters) without the drawbacks of what he doesn't (playing baseball).
Or was a reliever for the Orioles about 10 years ago.
I couldn't agree more. Mills should be a pretty good manager, but he's obviously going to have a lot of on the job training to do. Mills is a much more inspiring choice for the Astros than say, Garner or :shudders: Acta would have been.
Yeah, he has no Major League experience, but he's been working under Francona for a while and he's been a big part of their success.
This was my first thought when I saw the headline. Didn't the Dodgers do something similar with Bill Mueller in the final year of his contract? I remember that he had been injured and was going to retire, but instead the Dodgers had offered him the opportunity to work in the front office for what he would have been paid his final year.
I assume he did NOT get 3 years.
He is a Hall of Famer...
The DC5 was the first rock show I ever attended.
>The DC5 was the first rock show I ever attended.
Stop laughing, it was unintentional. They opened for Rush. And they were awful.
How were Mr Big?
kill me later
Creed headlined the show, but I left right after Tea Party, who played before them. So I use that justification to say that the first show I saw was a Tea Party one.
Though technically I guess the first band that day was Goldfinger.
Well played.
Creed headlined the show, but I left right after Tea Party, who played before them. So I use that justification to say that the first show I saw was a Tea Party one.
I had a similar experience with the MTV Alternative Nation tour in...'92? '93? The Screaming Trees were the first band, Soul Asylum was the second band, and the Spin Doctors were the headliners. I left about two songs into the Spin Doctors set. It was even more unlistenable than their studio work.
Soul Asylum, by the way, gets my vote for the most underrated live band in recent history. People remember them as the 'Runaway Train' guys, 90s alt-rock balladeers, but they were fierce as a live band in their prime. Blew the doors off the place with regularity. For example.
I saw the remnants of Soul Asylum at a free public concert in Boston this summer. I was suprised that a band playing the summer show/county fairs circuit that far past its prime with a recently deceased bassist could rock so hard. Would've loved to have seen 'em 15 years ago.
Absolutely. I saw Soul Asylum play a tavern in 1988 and they were great. Come to think of it, I saw Screaming Trees at the same place a year later...
The Dave Clark 5, BTW, were wonderful, although I was only eight at the time and don't remember many of the details. But it was in 1965, in Blackpool, England, with screaming girls galore, and the atmosphere was fantastic...
Bass: so easy, even a dead man can do it.
I saw Cheap Trick play outside the Astrodome at Chilifest (or something like that). June of 1988. The next day Craig Biggio made his MLB debut.
I saw them open up for X once. I had no idea who they were, and was one of about three people who showed up early and saw them.
Anyone who makes fun of me should remember the "Girls on Film" video and the utter urban sexy dystopia such music promised to a boy in a town of 1,500.
I wore a thin tie.
the Monkees. For all I know with Jimi Hendrix opening. I was 5 or 6 and it was my sister's birthday present of some such. I fell asleep.
then Linda Ronstadt as a teenager. I think the Bellamy Brothers opened. I had a mad crush on the girl I went with -- I was going with her, her boyfriend and some other friend of hers so that will tell you how pathetic I was.
The first rock band probably would have been something at ChicagoFest or one of the Midwest territory bands (Sawyer Brown maybe) in college.
That's OK -- that Rock'n'Roll era Mekons show more than made up for all the lame shows I've been to.
the Monkees. For all I know with Jimi Hendrix opening I was 5 or 6 and it was my sister's birthday present of some such.
we got my sister a birthday present to go see Billy Joe Royal ("Down in the Boondocks")
I tried to convince my mother to let me go with my friend and his parents to see one of what must have been these two KISS shows:
04.13.76 Utica,NY,USA,Memorial Auditorium
12.16.76 Syracuse,NY,USA,Onondaga County War Memorial
Sadly, my mother was against it. Me being in first grade might have had something to do with it.
(I had similar problems getting her permission to go see Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life" six years later.)
The DC5 could rock fine, they just couldn't roll.
...and in the pawn shop there's this great, big bloody bengal tiger.
Went with my parents
First concert of my own volition was Tom Petty on the Damn the Torpedoes tour
Magnuson Park, September 20, 1992.
i should have known there couldn't POSSIBLY be 53 posts about the houston astros or brad mills
sigh
Well...what was your first concert?
I gotta say that I'd rather have heard Cheap Trick.
Chicago for the same reason. They Might Be Giants for my first real one.
Blink 182?
Best: Springsteen 1975 Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, first show of Born to Run tour.
I'm not much of a concert-goer/music-maven, but Violent Femmes at Berkeley Greek Theatre was one of the finest performances I've ever seen. The Horns of Discontent were the icing on the cake.
In the 60's, at Purdue, there was a concert/performance at the Music Hall in the evening after each home football game. I think 1 of the above was the 1st one I went to. They were great. I remember Bob Hope (1968?) and a Beach Boys concert around then too.
I really like Chris Mars' solo album. I actually like it as much as The Replacements. I never would have figured that when I bought it.
That's just a cry for a Pavement highjack around here.
I'd say Radiohead has also forged a place in that hallowed corner of the RRHoF (actually there are no hallowed corners in that sorry excuse for a Hall).
Oh yeah, that was at Fitzgerald's in Houston.
Disagree. Shawn Fanning.
Back on topic, Iron Butterfly, All-University Weekend at Penn State, 1969. I came down from the Erie campus for the weekend -- football game & concert & coffee-houses and the like for the satellite campuses. It was a zoo, although not as zooish as the following year with Jefferson Airplane and a very pregnant Grace Slick. About 4000 extra students crashed the gates of the 9000 seat Rec Hall. No more big-name concerts until Springsteen in spring of '75 and he wasn't really big name yet. 2 months later he was on the covers of Time and Newsweek as his career exploded.
IB was ... as expected. 35 minute In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida (sp?) with a 20 minute drum solo in the acoustically challenged Rec(tum) Hall.
I had passed up an earlier concert at the Erie campus -- The Lemon Pipers (Listen while I play-yaaaay-yaaay, my "Greeeeeeen Tamboriiine") about 2 years after their only hit.
No. No. Noooooooooooooooooo. No.
BTW, do you mean 'pop' or 'rock'? (Surely, you're not ruling out subsequent developments in R&B;, rap, etc...)
First show I ever bought tickets for and was excited about may have been this guy.
Was he the boyfriend of That Girl?
Anyway, it'd be unlikely...
Radiohead
The Beastie Boys
Mariah Carey
Inner circle (jeez, that lady sells a lot of records.)
Pearl Jam
Green Day
Dr. Dre
have done enough to get in the Hall of Fame.
Coldplay
The White Stripes
Jay-Z
Outkast
are a couple of albums away from ensuring their place (if The Doors can make it ...)
Blur
Oasis
Sonic Youth
Beck
The Foo Fighters
are probably borderline cases (and Sonic Youth will still be building on it well after they're eligible.)
And lots of bands are building underground cases that might get them in 50 years a la The Ventures (Wilco, Yo La Tengo, Spoon, Modest Mouse, The Flaming Lips)
Plus, you've got some people who might make longevity cases (Usher, R. Kelly, Mary J. Blige, No Doubt, Sheryl Crow, Dave Matthews Band) when all is said and done.
But really, Nirvana just killed grunge, and hip-hop more than picked up the slack.
Sonic Youth has been eligible for a couple years. Considering their peak (Daydream Nation), prime and career length (a few dogs, but no real REM-like decline phase), their continued non-consideration is absurd.
I saw Rush on that tour. And I concur, Mr. Big was awful.
Best: Iggy and the Stooges, 2008.
in thibodeaux, louisiana.
this was back when their hit was 'i just wanna make love to you' and their lead guy had some kind of mirror guitar.
Not for those of us who detest hip-hop with every bone in our body.
Kim Gordon's recent Gossip Girl cameo should get SY some more mainstream exposure.
I've never quite understood this. Unless the opening act never appears in my area and they are a group I really want to see, I generally avoid going to a show just to see the opening act(s)*. Their set is usually truncated and it just isn't as good as seeing them do their own show.
* festivals are exempted from this because all the bands sets are usually shorter
As for Soul Asylum, I saw them back in my "metalhead" days and they were really freaking heavy. Can you believe that Radiohead opened up for them? How times have changed.
Opening act was a rockabilly band named Velcro - Phoenix crowds were notorious back then, and the M-80 that blew up a monitor didn't help our reputation any.
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