Ramone, as I mentioned previously, you never forget your first. If you don’t count Sharon, Lois and Bram, my first real concert was on August 18th, 1993. It was a Neil Young and Pearl Jam double bill at the now defunct Toronto’s CNE Stadium. Blues Traveler and Soundgarden were the opening acts. I went with my soon to be brother-in-law / ex-brother-in-law, Roland.

At the time, I was going primarily because I was a huge Pearl Jam fan. Their debut album Ten was one of the defining albums of my youth.  I also thought Soundgarden’s Badmotorfinger was a solid album. “Rusty Cage” and “Outshined” in particular rocked hard. As far as Neil Young was concerned, I thought of him as some 70s hippie folksinger who I k...

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