Its been awhile since I shared some emails and today I got a couple nice ones.
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The first email is from Jessica talking about the Matt Good/Mother Mother concert last week.
It was a first seeing Matt Good but, he was awesome!! Apparently, people were upset that he was only on for an 1hr and 15. I thought it was a good length though!
Thanks a bundle!
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I was trolling Mike Devlin’s Facebook the other day, and the founder of the The Zone, a gentleman named Al Ford, posted a picture of Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains) on his site. The concert was from 1990 I think, at Harpos (where Upstairs is now). AiC played with the beginnings of Pearl Jam (some band named after a basketball player), and a group from Victoria (name I can’t recall).
What a rad picture. Al has all sorts of great Victoria rock and roll memorabilia. Makes me wish I had done a better job collecting over my years as a broadcaster and indie rock hipster.
I talked about this picture on my radio show the other day and got some of it wrong. More fun facts emerge from Troy.
Jeremy,
I have to help you out a little on your comment on Jerry Cantrell earlier.
Yes the club was Harpo’s in Bastion Square where the club something or other “… Upstairs” is located now.
The band name you tried to recal was Mookie Blaylock. Another pre-Pearl jam played there as well during that same era under the name Green River featuring Mark Arm later of Mudhoney fame plus Jeff Ament and other Pearl Jam members. I didn’t live here at the time but might I suggest that perhaps you confused the two groups?
At any rate you’re the best DJ on the zone and a decent bloke. We met when my old band was band of the month back a few years ago and you were a very genuine guy. So with that in mind please play some Visqueen sometime, like Hand Me Down from Message To Garcia, the kids will dig it.
TN
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awwww. Suzanne jammed out CRC 80.
I listened to your podcast from today! I loved it and felt all nice
and fuzzy afterwards:)
just to let you know:)
Suzanne:)
I feel fuzzy now too.
Go with yourself.
The Morning After 
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I can’t say I was at this show, as I wasn’t old enough, however I do have the gig poster signed by both bands!
Eddie Vedder’s said “…wait ’til you hear the new album”, which clearly was “Ten” 🙂
What’s more depressing than not being able to have seen this show is that I had my poster laminated and over time the ink absorbed into the paper – NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
I had planned on getting it dry mounted, but I had to hand over the poster in order to get this done and I refused to let it out of my site (obviously!)
This is one of the saddest things that has ever happened to me 😦 but I still display the poster proudly in my house and you can see ‘some’ of the ink and imprints in the paper…
*sigh*
rad! thank you so much for this great comment Marisa!