What Chicago is talking about this week ...
... maybe some haven't given up on talking about the maddening debt ceiling debate, and there could be a few that are still moaning about the early week midnight thunderstorms that were keeping folks awake, and I'm sure one of two is chatting up the fact that Sir Paul performs at a transformed Wrigley Field tonight ... but I know the cool kids are all talking about the fact that Toad the Wet Sprocket plays the Taste of Lincoln festival tonight!
Talk about a band being responsible for a soundtrack of a few years of your life ... Toad takes me back to college twenty years ago, when ...
* we got our student council to get them to come to LVC for a spring concert ...
* at which, we set them up in the gym with too many "security" volunteers so it was like they were playing for a prison (they politely asked us to disperse after the first song) ...
* before which I was sent to the local Quality Inn to pick up everyone but the lead singer -- in my little Ford Escort ...
* during which I got them to sign my copy of the cassette for their release of Pale (and they got the lead singer to add his autograph from the tour bus for a complete set of signatures)!
I titled one of my audience participation murder mysteries "Indecision" based on one of their songs, and said sad and poignant goodbyes to a college friend-like-a-brother who was returning home from school with "Don't Go Away" in the background. I walked around as an employee of Hills department store singing along to "Walk on the Ocean" as it played over the Muzak. As it is now, I can play any number of songs and end up transported back to my "youth".
Bring on the Toad tuneage!
WHO KNEW THEN THAT I WOULD ONE DAY WORK IN SCHAUMBURG:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lMTGMAhlGM
AGE IS HEAVIER, IT SEEMS, THAN YEARS ALONE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EvSad1XEys
I MISS HILLS DEPARTMENT STORE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcHB060NKYo
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