REO Speedwagon with Point Blank at The Hearnes Center in Columbia, MO, April 19, 1980 This was the first rock concert I ever attended. We were wrapping up our junior year of high school and the world was our oyster. REO Speedwagon was touring in promotion of the […]
Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton at Kemper Military School and College in Boonville, Missouri, April 21, 1973 (estimated). Growing up in small town Missouri did not afford many opportunities for well-known, national artists. Boonville was a town located smack-dab in the middle of Missouri just off I-70. The […]
Important dates in music! JANUARY 3 – George Martin was born in London, England on this day in 1926. 4 – Bernard Sumner (Joy Division, New Order) was born on this day in 1956 in Broughton, Lancashire, England. 4 – Michael Stipe of R.E.M. born on this day […]