Turn it up! Yeah!
Nothing like being up at 6 a.m. Sunday morning with Batman Returns blaring in the background from a surround-sound TV.
But that's where I found myself this past weekend.
The cost of volunteering the overnight (11 p.m. to 7 a.m.) at a hospice with an elderly woman hard of hearing:
Priceless. "I'm only an hour or less away from being the same way," I thought.
Reminded me of the last concert to which I went as a teenager.
Metallica? No.
Guns-N-Roses? No.
Not even Autograph.
No, it was a Christian rock band named Petra at the Landmark Theatre in Syracuse, N.Y.
Even though we -- my parents, who were chaperones for almost every Christian rock concert I attended as a teenager, my sister and a friend -- sat in the rear of the balcony, we could hear and feel fine the sounds and vibrations coming off the Marshall stacks on stage.
Years later, The Wife and I went to a Christian rock concert with a band named Polarboy at a small park in southern New Jersey., which rivaled the Petra concert.
Although perhaps about 30 to 40 people were there, the sound guys wanted to see if they could test the sound barrier on the small audience.
When I tried to tell them that they really didn't need it, they basically told me I could go to hell, which didn't seem quite right for a band that was trying to get its followers to go to heaven.
Luckily, I was, and am, Catholic, so had, and have, the option to go in between. Ha ha.
Cue the music.
Tune 1:
Or Tune 2:
"Purgatory" by Pat Benatar
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** Um, yeah, this pretty much was an excuse to post Autograph's "Turn Up The Radio." Sorry, love the song and the video in all its cheesy 80ness. :)
But that's where I found myself this past weekend.
The cost of volunteering the overnight (11 p.m. to 7 a.m.) at a hospice with an elderly woman hard of hearing:
Priceless. "I'm only an hour or less away from being the same way," I thought.
Reminded me of the last concert to which I went as a teenager.
Metallica? No.
Guns-N-Roses? No.
Not even Autograph.
No, it was a Christian rock band named Petra at the Landmark Theatre in Syracuse, N.Y.
Even though we -- my parents, who were chaperones for almost every Christian rock concert I attended as a teenager, my sister and a friend -- sat in the rear of the balcony, we could hear and feel fine the sounds and vibrations coming off the Marshall stacks on stage.
Years later, The Wife and I went to a Christian rock concert with a band named Polarboy at a small park in southern New Jersey., which rivaled the Petra concert.
Although perhaps about 30 to 40 people were there, the sound guys wanted to see if they could test the sound barrier on the small audience.
When I tried to tell them that they really didn't need it, they basically told me I could go to hell, which didn't seem quite right for a band that was trying to get its followers to go to heaven.
Luckily, I was, and am, Catholic, so had, and have, the option to go in between. Ha ha.
Cue the music.
Tune 1:
Or Tune 2:
"Purgatory" by Pat Benatar
Humor-Blogs.com
Humor Bloggers
BlogStorm
** Um, yeah, this pretty much was an excuse to post Autograph's "Turn Up The Radio." Sorry, love the song and the video in all its cheesy 80ness. :)
9 comments:
I can testify to the Petra 'wall of sound'...Trenton War Memorial, sometime in 1987....I never saw Marshall stacks that high before or since. I can't imagine they didn't do structural damage to the theater. My ears rang for two days.
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I can't believe I've never even heard of Autograph, much less that song. I thought I was pretty well-versed in cheesy 80s music.
I'll take Batman Returns any day.
I think the last concert I went to was Dave Matthews Band at the Tacoma Dome. They didn't allow concert goers to drink beer in their seats so we didn't stay long. Had we stayed we would have been stoned out of our gourds since that was what everyone was doing in their seats. The last concert before that was probably Prince and The Revolution with The Time during the Prince heyday in the 80's. It was an awesome concert.
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I don't know why I'm surprised that "Christian" doesn't always mean Christ-like.
I remember Petra....barely.
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Would have loved to see Prince.
Dave Matthews. Eh. But Prince, definitely. :)
Loser! :) Oh, sorry...maybe I'm the loser for having heard of them.
Autograph: One-hit wonder.
It was awesome, wasn't it? ;)
Wait..you're from Syracuse? I'm asking to distract myself from the earworm of Turn Up the Radio you just lodged in my brain. I don't dare play the Petra tune for fear of a tasty lick getting stuck in my head for all time.
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No, not from Syracuse, about four hours to the South in Pa. when I was growing up.
Turn Up The Radio rocks and that song by Petra rolls. I mean, come on. ;)
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