Meags is back with questions about everyone's first concert, favorite concert, weirdest concert experience, and the concert of their wildest dreams. Sadly, Carey and Drea had to miss this one. We'll be circling back around for their answers eventually. In the meantime, enjoy!
Meags is back with questions about everyone's first concert, favorite concert, weirdest concert experience, and the concert of their wildest dreams. Sadly, Carey and Drea had to miss this one. We'll be circling back around for their answers eventually. In the meantime, enjoy!
Hello ladies.
Kathy:Hello.
Lisa:So today for our dear listeners, you just give three of us. It's Lisa, Kathy
Kathy:Let's, is the top three.
Meags:The A team is in place and ready to go.
Lisa:I'm fine with that. We'll keep that secret to ourselves.
Meags:Um, we just announced it on the podcast, so that might be tricky. Yes.
Lisa:Possibly.
Meags:Uh,
Lisa:So I will just say yes I will. Just cuz our last one was all about Murdo. I'm just gonna say he was found guilty. Hallelujah. And when Carrie and I are both back, we'll discuss more later. I'm sure
Meags:since the rest of us are still busy watching all the various media
Lisa:you got Yes. I just watched the Netflix one. That was interesting. Kathy, I think you watched
Kathy:I just watched it Friday binged.
Lisa:Now I gotta go. I gotta go to HBO Max and catch that
Kathy:seen it know there was an H B one. I don't have to look that.
Meags:feeling like a slacker. I'm gonna have to get the 12 year old into this. We need a new crime. Thanks. Maybe we'll watch that. Maybe that'll do it. Um, well we, we finished Criminal Minds, which is just ridiculous cuz Criminal Minds is like 16 seasons long
Kathy:I was gonna say, it's a lot of seasons, right? It's been on forever.
Meags:it's been on literally forever and they just put a whole bunch more on Paramount. Like we still were like, we got to the end of it the other day and we were like, rut row. We, we need to pick something else. And it's like, can we go back to csi? And it's like, no, we watched that too recently. Like we have to, it has to have some time so that we can forget more of
Kathy:May I interest you in N C I S?
Meags:Yeah. Well, I'm currently watching CS again.
Lisa:The only one NCIS I watch was Miami.
Kathy:Oh, new Orleans is fun.
Lisa:New Orleans annoying me cuz they all have fake accents and shit. Doesn't sound like,
Kathy:you get past that.
Meags:I'll tell you after, after living in Northern Virginia, they're all ridiculous.
Lisa:well it's so funny because they like, they all of a sudden they're coming. This one episode I watched, they're coming out from this hole and I see Loyola like right behind it. I'm like, oh, I know exactly where they are. They're in Ottman Park.
Kathy:Yeah, I know that hole.
Meags:Yeah.
Lisa:I'm speaking.
Meags:No, my favorite thing is all the Northern Virginia one where they're like, we are at Langley. We're going to, you know, just run down to the Capitol and it'll take, well, we're gonna be right there. And it's like, dude, that is a ridiculous distance. And it it with traffic? No, just, no, just hard. No, but that's okay. It just gives us one more thing to make fun of that. And when they refer to the roads, um, Like West Coast roads, when they talk about the, the 95 your, your California is showing
Lisa:Yeah, you're fine.
Meags:Like, it's like that, that's not how we do that on this coast. Like, you need to come on, get with the program people. Um, so yeah. In fact, Kathy, I re started watching N C I S at the. The point where they, where Wilmar, what's his name shows up. Cuz I was like, I've already watched all the other stuff. Like if I start here, like this is where I think I gave up last time.
Kathy:Yeah, I. I was several seasons in, I feel like, and then, well, like, as I started watching OG N C I S
Meags:yeah.
Kathy:I was home on maternity leave. And so I just kinda watched whatever went, you know, whatever was on. But they would play, you know, they would play it kind of, you know, in, in sequential, you know, sequentially. But then at some point, like, you know, I stopped watching cuz I stopped being at home anymore. And
Meags:yeah,
Kathy:And then it's just been like, well now, I mean, I feel like, and, and now there's too many seasons. Like, it's like it's too daunting of a
Meags:yeah. It's a
Kathy:go back and start from the beginning and like it. No,
Meags:I
Kathy:that's why I kinda like, well, new Orleans doesn't have that many seasons, so I started watching that a while back.
Meags:That's very understandable. I could, I can believe that. Absolutely. so with our small intimate crew today, we're, we're gonna play the five questions game again cuz I like this game. It's a good game. And like I was thinking about what we were gonna do. Since last time we did vacations and I was thinking that we were gonna do concerts and then both of you have like exciting concert news. So I feel like it's predestined. We should talk about concerts.
Kathy:Okay.
Meags:so I think what we're gonna start with is we're gonna, I'll talk about the first concert we remember going to. So I'm happy to lead the way on this one because this comes up at work all the time because there's currently a song from this concert on one of the stations we listen to at work called Everybody, Wang Chung Tonight,
Lisa:Ah,
Meags:because when I was in like seventh grade, I want tickets on the local college station to see Wang Chung at the college, and my parents like dropped me. Like, have a great
Lisa:oh.
Kathy:Yes.
Meags:Um, yeah, good work. Getting free tickets, like, Hey, thanks. Um, and I look back on it and I'm like, that's, that's a bold move, mom and dad. Um, but like, it's, it's endlessly delightful to all my younger coworkers who are like, wait, what? Like, this was like a ba like this is like a whole band guys. Like they, yes. Then they have, they haven't, they toured and they did everything. Like they're like a whole thing.
Kathy:They were in that movie too,
Meags:They were, they were in offense mix, but um, they're very, they're very,
Kathy:to school.
Meags:they're very, very eighties. Um,
Kathy:Super eighties
Lisa:What movie were they in?
Kathy:back to school with Rodney Dangerfield,
Lisa:yeah. Oh yes. I love that movie. Movie
Meags:Yeah. I feel like they're in another movie too, like more of an LA movie.
Kathy:That was Wingo Bueno. Nevermind.
Meags:Oh, yeah.
Lisa:okay.
Meags:our, is that really okay? Yeah, that could be.
Kathy:it's gonna go boy again. Um, okay. Can I just say that I'm very impressed that your ability to win stuff off the radio, we would try endlessly to win stuff off the radio and we never would get it.
Lisa:You go. I remember calling in and you'd get like a busy signal and you'd keep trying to call and call and there was no red dial button on our phone. You had to physically dial the number again.
Meags:Oh, the horrors of the eighties. Um, I will, I will say that like this was, um, The local college radio station, which was about as big as my pinky nail, and only had like coverage, like not o even over the two towns we were in.
Kathy:Yeah.
Meags:So like it was, um, it was not that tough. It was not, it was not nearly as tough as it should have been. Like when I was a DJ on that station, like you could go for quite a while with nobody calling. Even if you were like, Hey, Come on in and like, gimme a request and it'd be like crickets. Um, so I'm sure when they gave away tickets it was still just like, oh good, the phone's ringing.
Kathy:Be the collar.
Meags:they sound like they sound like they're 12. They sound like they're 12. No worries. Just give'em the tickets.
Kathy:We, we live pretty close to Rice University and we could pick up that station, but, uh, it, it now has a broader range, but at the time it, it was pretty, pretty small. Well, that is a very impressive first concert.
Meags:Yeah, I don't, I'm not sure it's really impressive, but it is memorable. Um,
Kathy:I mean, it's pretty cool.
Meags:it is, it's, it's entertaining. Um,
Kathy:Lisa, what was yours?
Meags:yeah. What was your sister?
Lisa:Mine was freshman year. My brother actually asked me to go to a concert because one of their friends bailed at the last minute, so I was a freshman going with some bunches. I guess it was like three senior guys to Def Lepper pour sugar on me, baby.
Meags:Oh my goodness.
Lisa:It was, it was a lot of fun. And it was the old St. Louis they used of the arena, which was a super old venue, like the hockey team played there and it just was like you, you were, we were up kind of high, so you could almost feel the roof vibrating. But the music, it was,
Meags:I was gonna say like that is a seriously loud concert.
Lisa:yeah, it was, and
Meags:That's like a stack of amps kind of band.
Lisa:And my, the funniest memory I have we're looking like just, there was just this odd smell and I'm looking at my brother, I'm like, what is that? He's like, oh, that's pot. I'm like, oh, okay. No, I know what that smells like. Thank you.
Meags:Oh my goodness.
Lisa:Um, yes. The memories I remember, I think somewhere I still have it. I like bought the, what do you call it? You know, the fancy program?
Meags:Oh, like
Kathy:Oh yeah, the program.
Lisa:the program? Yeah. I was excited to have it. I used to look at it all the time. I sure it's in a box somewhere in this house.
Meags:A little bit of merch.
Lisa:My mom, my mom gave me all that shit. Like you get your stuff.
Kathy:Oh
Meags:yeah. Yeah. What about you, Kathy?
Kathy:Well, I'm, so as we were talking before that started, um, here in Houston, there's the Houston Livestock on Rodeo. There's always, when you go, there's, there's concerts every night. So I'm sure that I was taken to the rodeo and to concerts
Meags:Yeah.
Kathy:before this particular concert, but this concert that I first bought tickets went with my friends. Like first concert that, you know, was like I'm going to concert, um, is what I consider my first concert. And that was Cindy Lauper. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Tour.
Meags:that's awesome.
Kathy:Um, and we had. Exactly back road tickets. We, she, she played, I was seventh grade, I remember this. Uh, she played at, uh, a, a like a concert hall. So not like a, an arena type of venue. It was like a concert hall, um, you know, uh, downtown that doesn't actually exist anymore. Um, it was called the Music Hall. And anyway, it was, you know, so it. Kind of like SY or or something, right? There's like tears and balcony and we were in the balcony very back row. Like we literally, like our backs were against the wall back, back row seats. And the odd thing was nobody was sitting in the two rows in front of us. like we were. We had the best time though, but she was teeny tiny way, way down there in the stage.
Meags:Oh my goodness. Did you get all dressed up?
Kathy:I mean, I'm sure we did. I'm sure there was some side pony.
Meags:to be jelly bracelets
Kathy:sure there were side
Meags:pins and,
Kathy:definitely jelly bracelets. I'm sure we like cut a t-shirt or something and like cut it off to the side.
Meags:I was gonna say the, like the girls just wanna have fun movie where she takes everything off and it's got Velcro on it, she flips it all around.
Kathy:there probably wasn't, but
Meags:no, it wasn't probably quite that traumatic. That was Helen Hunt. Um, but
Kathy:that was my first,
Meags:that's a pretty awesome first.
Kathy:I agree.
Meags:Look at, look at how cool we are. We're super cool. I knew it. I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised at all.
Lisa:I, myself Cool. In high school, but Okay.
Meags:it's all right. It's all, it's all about those rose colored glasses, kid. It's all about how you look back on it. so speaking of which we can that we'll, we'll expand our scope a little bit and we'll look back on. Like the whole, and just, we're gonna get, just go get it outta the way. We're gonna talk about what our favorite concert was. And so it could be your favorite for the band, it could be your favorite for what happened. It could be, it could be your favorite for lots of different things.
Kathy:okay.
Meags:like you, you might even have more than one answered for this. And I would definitely accept more than one answer, especially since there's just the three of us
Kathy:Mm-hmm. Okay.
Lisa:Well, I wish Carrie was here because one I'm thinking of, she was there.
Meags:Which one?
Lisa:and we went to, it was our senior year. Kathy, unfortunately was not there, and Megan there either. We went to a jazz fest and the Indigo girls were playing. And maybe because I'm seeing them next week, but it's in my head. Cause I was thinking about that concert, but it was just like the perfect spring day in New Orleans. No rain, sunny. It probably was kind of humid but it wasn't grossly humid. And God, who was there was me and Carrie and Jeanine and Jenna, I off, Andrea was there Not or night, it was all kind of a blur, but it was a good time. We had the best time. It was just wonderful music just sitting. Blanket in the lawn and just listening to them. And it's just definitely in the springtime baby. It's great.
Meags:Yeah, that does sound. I'm jealous that you're going to see them again. There's somebody I'd like to see that I have not seen.
Lisa:it's a different vibe since they're playing with the symphony, but um, it should still be fun.
Meags:They still, I mean, they still sound like them,
Lisa:Right, right,
Meags:right? I mean, you would think, well, I guess we'll find out next week when we, we'll find out in two weeks when we see
Lisa:In two weeks I'll report back and let you know.
Meags:I think that's a good plan. Uh, did you think of one, Kathy?
Kathy:I, I do, I do have one. I mean, and then I was like, Ooh, do I have multiple? Which, I mean, I've been to some pretty awesome concerts. But the one, I think that when, you know, when you say that, the one that pops into my mind the most and both Nick and I are big Stevie Wonder fans. we listen, you know, especially, you know, before we had a kid and other things, you know, we listen music more with Stevie Wonder a lot. And then, um, Probably like five years ago, which means it could have been longer. Um, but around that amount of time ago, uh, found out that he was doing a small, I think it was maybe only 20 cities tour. Um, and, and so it was really limited. And so I, I, I, like everyone had gone to bed. I was at like late at night. I saw that he was doing this tour. and I looked and I was like, oh my gosh, you know? and I looked at the dates and none of them were like, like the closest, like maybe like to Houston was like Dallas. I'm like, I'm not going to Dallas. so I was like looking, I'm like, well, where would be cool place to go? And I saw that the last city was New York, Madison Square Garden. And the concert was the Tuesday before Thanksgiving and Nick's birthday is a couple weeks before. And I was like, perfect. Boom. Bought tickets, I think I went and woke Nick up and I was like, Hey, we're going to New York for Thanksgiving. And then he was like, okay. we made it, of course we made a whole trip of it. We'd love to go to New York. but, and we was just like, it was a lot of fun and we. And I mean, they weren't like horrible tickets. They weren't like, we weren't on the floor, but we were kind of like to the side of the stage and we were kind of towards the bottom of the balcony, maybe second row off the balcony. So it was really cool and um, because it was the last, and it was like right around the holidays and it was kind of like his home stop. He had all of the family members for all the bands and the backup singers were there. His family was sitting on the stage at the side, and so the whole thing was like he was playing. uh, it was like going through this entire album, but then he just kept playing. And so certain songs, he would bring someone from the band, like Forward or the and um, you know, and highlight them. And, um, one of the singers is, um, Janelle Monet, who's now. Famous at the time, like this was kinda like right when she was discovered. And, um, so I mean, she was amazing and so he would like, have like a special song that he'd do with each of them. And he just kept saying, he's like, you guys have no idea what this is costing me. He ran easily an hour over concert time without stopping. There was. Encore, anything. He just kept playing and he's like, you guys don't know how much I love you. You have no idea how much this is costing me Cause like, you know, they have to pay like, I'm sure exorbitant fees. That's why every concert was like, John, it's over. Get out.
Meags:Well, and the other thing is like, there's always some kind of, uh, noise ordinances and con like gathering ordinance. There's like an endless number of like law type things about that.
Kathy:Yeah. I mean, it was. It was, it was really amazing. And it was just like so fun and just, you know, awesome and just got to hear so such great music and just, you know, truly an icon. And I've seen other icons, you know, but this was, you know, this was really, really cool.
Meags:it's always special to see them do something that's not like their regular standard show.
Kathy:Yeah,
Meags:what I mean? Like I feel like a lot of times you see somebody and you feel like, oh, this is exactly what they did on the last stop. Like they're still awesome, but like
Kathy:Yeah. You're like, dude, this guy's like in his seventies, and he just kept playing and playing and playing and singing and playing, and you're like, wow.
Meags:he's pretty amazing.
Kathy:Yeah.
Meags:For sure. For sure. So like I do have two answers to this one because I was thinking about it and I have two very different answers. Um, but the first one, Like, I'm kind of hoping that one of you is gonna be able to tell me why exactly I was at this concert, because I cannot remember to, for the life of me why I was. Um, but at some point when we were in New Orleans, I ended up at Tipitina's to see Concrete Blonde. I have no recollection of who I was with, what I was doing. It was like a random we night kind of thing sing
Kathy:Was I there with you?
Meags:I dunno, but it was like, Hey, let's go see Concrete Blonde. And it was like, yeah, sure. and it was unbelievable because like I am not from somewhere where there are all kinds of concerts where there are big stadiums, there's not any of that. Um, but, so I didn't have a lot of con concert experience at all. But to be somewhere like that small with somebody who really sang exceptionally well, like Jeanette Naval, Aldo was like, oh my God. It was just crazy. Um,
Kathy:You know, I don't think I was, I mean, I, I know I saw some pretty good concerts at with Bettina's. I remember, I feel like there was one that Lisa had us go to, and it was like some one hit wonder band that I found really annoying. Like they had like one song and it was like everyone, they played that song and everyone was like, eh. And I was like, then nobody knew any of the other songs
Lisa:You know, I remember doing that. And, but it was with, uh, but it wasn't Tipitina's, it was at the, the, that Blues that Dan Akk place. Um,
Meags:House of Blues.
Kathy:of Blues. This was definitely a Tippo because I never went to House of Blues.
Lisa:I don't really, honestly, I don't, I could have gone Totino's, but I don't honestly remember going
Meags:Yeah. Like I, it's one of those things where it's like I have, I just have no, I have very distinct recollections of the show. And the music, and I still really love that band. But, um, usually I, like, I remember who I was there with or like why I was there or how it came about, but that one is like a total It's kind of a total blank, which is weird because the other story I have for you is like, got a whole story. And the story is really what makes this one good, is that. After I left Loyola, I spent a little time out of college and I spent a little time in college. But while I was doing that, I spent a lot of time going to see the Grateful Dead, um, as one does. Um, and at one point I was at college, um, in, OR domain, which is like pretty much on the edge of the earth. So another two and a half, three hours north of where I live now. Um, so it's about, it's probably about. Five hours north of Boston. So we decided like on a weekday, like, oh, this is gonna be like the Dead's last shows at Boston Garden. We're, we're just gonna go, we're just gonna get in the car and go. So we went down and met friends, um, who lived south of there and we went to a couple shows and then we went to hang out with them at their college and it was like, oh, we wanna go to more shows cuz like, we're already. Screwed. Like, we've already missed a lot of schools, so like, we might as well just go see as many shows as we can while we're here. Um, and so we were at Brown University, which is home to lots of fabulous people. Um, and my friend who went there was like, I, like I know somebody who knows somebody who's selling tickets, so we're gonna go buy tickets. Like, okay. And like the night before we had been like, like your seats for Cindy Locker, like, we could touch the back wall. Not only could we touch the back wall of the garden, we could touch the ceiling.
Kathy:Yes, yes,
Meags:right up there, um, all the way up there. Um, and it was like, okay, like we're, we'll go do this. And so, you know, we pull up behind a fancy car and I. Get out and I buy tickets from this lovely young lady who, um, has them in an envelope and she hands them to me and I get back in the car and my friend says, look at the tickets. I said, what do you mean? And he said, just look at the tickets. And I was like, I don't understand what these mean. And he, because instead of like for the section, they said, Lok, L O G e. And I was like, what does that even mean? And he was like, you're gonna die. And I was like, what do you mean I'm gonna die? And he was like, do you know whose tickets you just bought? I said, I have no idea whose tickets I just bought. Will you just tell me what's happening, And he was like, those are Senator Carey's tickets. Because John Carey at that point was the sitting senator in Massachusetts and was a Big dead fan. That was his daughter. He had given them to his daughter and she was selling them. The LO seats are the seats at a hockey arena where the press box is, that's out over the ice. So it's like a single row seats completely unobstructed. And so my friend who was with me is like a super huge lifelong hockey person. Super huge Bruins fan. Like broke down in tears was like the only place I've never sat in the garden. This is amazing. I can't believe we're doing this. It was like, this is just like really crazy. Like this is like beyond good seats. These are. A little bit unreal, especially in comparison to being like in the top back row touching all the walls. Um, so like, I don't necessarily remember a lot about that concert, but I remember a lot about those seats. And those seats were really fun. It was really fun to have really good seats. I've had a few other concerts that we've gone to that we've had. We've lucked into crazy seats, but none quite as crazy, um, as Those were pretty,
Kathy:That's pretty, sweet
Meags:they were pretty crazy. Um, but, you know, um, my parents were not, you know, they did not find that story to be entertaining when they realized how much school I had skipped out on. Um, or the fact that like, I was in Rhode Island when I was supposed to be in Northern Maine. Uh, they were, I was like, but golly, listen to my story. And they were like, yeah, no, Megan, no, you guys are no fun.
Lisa:Ah, parents such down.
Meags:I know, right? Like really and truly well, like my mother is a person who, it's like, mom, did you see anybody cool in high school? I don't know. I mean, we went to see The Beatles once, come on, like, you're burying the lead. She's like, oh. There was another time that I went to see Ella Fitzgerald downtown in Chicago. Like, that's amazing. Like, she's like, oh, I don't, okay, mom. And I must have been like, I'm not a big concert person either, but like, mom, come on, please. All right, so I think now that we've talked about those, we should talk about what is the weirdest concert experience. We've had every time I say weirdest, anything, Kathy's like, oh yeah,
Kathy:I sometimes forget like that I've re I I have had a, a somewhat interesting life.
Meags:you got one on the top of your head. Or you wanna think for a.
Kathy:No, I have one. I have one on the top of my head.
Meags:All.
Kathy:Um, I, I mean I would consider this a concert cuz there was a stage and people were playing music. So there used to be a very well known, uh, very, but like well known, you know, in, in music, like in music circles and whatever. Uh, jazz, uh, I guess we could call it a club, um, in Houston called the Gallant Night. It was an old wood sided single story. House, um, kind of near the medical center and it just had like a little neon sign on the outside. It was kind of somewhat dilapidated looking. Um, it's like if Snake and Jake's was a little bit bigger and famous jazz musicians would come through and play music there. Um, so, you know, you can just kind of go and whatever. So I. It wasn't planned. I don't remember exactly how we ended up there, but a bunch of us, this was after college, I was hanging out with some people, you know, here in Houston and a bunch of us were hanging out and someone said, Hey, let's go to the gala night. So we went to the gal night. I don't know the name of the band that was playing. I'm pretty sure that one of the people that was walking in right in front of us, because my, uh, my very close friend growing up, um, was a jazz piano player for, you know, a long time. And so I was very, um, exposed to a lot of, uh, of people. That weren't necessarily like, you know, people here on the radio and whatever. So I'm pretty sure the guy walking in front of us was this, um, was named this guy named Chick Coya, who's a a Yeah. But anyway, so going in and like, this is a, this is like a house. This is like a, I mean, not a big like, you know, maybe 1200 square foot at the most house. And so like the ceiling is like, you know,
Meags:Yeah.
Kathy:maybe eight feet tall. There it is just like,
Meags:Yeah.
Kathy:sweaty. There's like a bar off to the side. There's very dimly lit. There's a teeny stage on the corner. There's a whole bunch of guys on there playing music and they're playing and we're just hanging out. We're kind of at the end of the bar cause that's where we could kind of see. We're just kinda hanging out and you know, listening and whatever. And then the guy on stage calls out his very, very close friend. Please bring him, you know, please allow us to bring him up. Special guest visitor, Ike Turner.
Lisa:What
Meags:Oh my God,
Kathy:I was like, what?
Meags:that's awesome.
Kathy:And it was like, it was like, do you clap for him? Do you not clap for him? How did we do in this situation? You know, was like, cause it was like, you know, after all that stuff kind of became much more public knowledge and there was a movie or whatever about it, and you're like, yes. Oh no.
Lisa:You're good personal, you're just a scumbag. You.
Kathy:It was so weird and he, like child, I, I don't even think he could fit on the stage. I think he just kind of stood, I mean the stage was only like maybe 8, 8, 10 inches off the ground and he kinda like, cuz there wasn't enough ceiling height, you know, anyway, but he, um, yeah, so I, you know, I sang a song with them and then, And then like went back down to the crowd and you're like, well that was weird. So that's the weird, I would say that's the weirdest concert I've ever been to.
Meags:That sounds pretty weird that I think that definitely qualifies.
Kathy:Memorable though.
Meags:I feel like place, places like that are always right for weird experiences.
Kathy:Yeah. It's, it's like, it's, you know, kinda like, I mean, feel like Tippets was kind of like that a little bit, but that was like a true venue. There was a, a great venue that was kind of similar to Tipitina's. um, that I saw a lot of great kind of just, you know, you know, some people made it bigger than other kind of people, but a lot I was exposed to a lot of great music, you know, in high school and early in my early twenties because of some of the people I hung out with. And there was kind of a two story, you know, you, I always would, I always felt like I was gonna fall through the floor. And so when we were, if we went to see someone and they were on the second floor, I'd always stand. Near the exterior wall near something that I, like, a member or a window. I was like, you know, people jump down and I'm like, this doesn't seem structurally sound. And this was before I took any classes about structures.
Meags:I feel like it's just innate, like it's just bending
Kathy:Yeah, like this just doesn't seem like it's gonna withstand anything. Now it's a parking lot. So,
Meags:Aw, bummer. What about you, Lisa? You got a weird one for us.
Lisa:I can't think of like, I mean, I remem at the time I went to a fish concert in San Diego
Meags:Boy.
Lisa:and it was fun. I had a great time.
Meags:Yeah.
Lisa:But the music was weird. Like I'm singing along like their songs. They were just playing like anything, which I
Meags:Yeah. They're, they're a jam band, so,
Lisa:Yeah, they just started playing in, oh, I'm trying to think of the name of the song. There was some song that's like, um, not that West Virginia song, something with Tennessee maybe in it. I dunno, it's some like old. Like seven song and my, and I just knew all the words and I'm singing along and all my friends's, like, how do you know this song? I'm like, how do you know? I know this song and then here I'm, I'm talking about this and I can't remember what song. It's, I just remember that being a weird experience because it totally
Kathy:you're old now.
Meags:Yeah.
Kathy:why you can't remember.
Lisa:right. I'm old and can't remember. Then we were all in our mid twenties, so I, you know, it wasn't that old of a song.
Meags:Yeah.
Kathy:It just took, it just took me all this whole time to remember. Cause I was like, yeah, Stevie Wonder was playing this whole album. It just took me until now to remember there was songs in the Key of life, cuz I couldn't remember the name of the album for like this whole time.
Meags:Sometimes it takes a minute for it all to come together, but I think that we're still at the age where it generally all comes together. That's what counts.
Lisa:right. Because I was thinking too, I'm like, I haven't been to that many concerts and then I'm, so I'm like, what? This, I have been to some, there was a time in my life where I did go to concerts and yeah.
Kathy:Yes, the younger times.
Lisa:The younger times. Yes. Four
Meags:I was gonna say, the times after you had no money and the times before you had children,
Lisa:right?
Meags:like, depending on how large that window was. Um,
Lisa:there wasn't, yeah, wasn't much.
Kathy:I mean, there were, there were times when I went like, I mean, like in high school we went all the time. We had a, a good friend that my friend and I met. We, we checked groceries at Randall's and he was in the soccers, but he was, he was in like three different bands. And we would go, you know, we'd go all over these places, these dive bars to hear the different bands that he was in. Or he'd be like, Hey, I know, I know a guy who's in this. Like, he would just go take us to see somebody else play. And you know, we went all the time.
Meags:Yeah, that's not the kind of town I grew up in.
Kathy:Yeah.
Meags:Not even close. Um, not unless you wanna see somebody play like an accordion and sing, you know, French Canadian folk music. Um,
Lisa:I know people in St. Louis who, who had lived like that, but that wasn't me.
Meags:speaking of living like that, I, um, now that I'm old, thank you for pointing that out, Kathy, that we're old. Um,
Kathy:I can say it because I'm the oldest one here.
Meags:that's accurate. true. Very true. Um, you'd never guess it's look better skin folks, but it's, Kathy is a little older than we are. there was a, When I was up here, and this is like a two concert story, so it's like a two for one. Um, we got tickets from my husband's boss, um, again, for which, what is now TV Garden, which used to be the Boston Garden, which we're now like two hours from. Um, but we got tickets to see Jay-Z like at the last minute. Um, and he, cuz his son had them and he couldn't use them. And he was like, do you guys want. And like the weather was kind of bad, but I, my husband was like, do we want these? And I was like, Kelly, yeah, we want those, take those tickets. Um, and so all my little ones at work were very concerned about me cause they were like, are you sure you're gonna be okay at a Jay-Z concert? And I started getting really annoyed and I finally had to bust out like one of my favorite fun facts, which is when I was in New Orleans, we bought, uh, my suitemates and I bought pit tickets. To see the Beastie Boys with the Rollins Band and Cypress Hill. Like, I feel like if I live through that concert, I'm gonna
Kathy:Hmm.
Meags:at a Jay-Z concert.
Kathy:Yes.
Meags:And they were all like, you did not, seriously, you were not in a pit. And I was like, I was totally in a pit. I used to be in the pit. And lots of shows, it's like, it's great to be up front. And it's like, it's really fun. Like it's dangerous, but but's fun. And they were all just like, no, no way. And I was like, fly. Totally away. Um, but that was one too where it was like, I don't remember, like, it was like that was one of those shows that was supposedly sold out and then we went into some random store in the quarter and it was like, oh yeah, we have tickets. Like what do you got? Like, oh, we got pit tickets. Like I'll take those. Snap me, snap, snap. Let's hand hand those right over to us. Um, So that was like, that was a lot, that was like probably the first time I was in a pit, like somewhere like New Orleans that where it was like, especially with a band like the Raws band, where it was like, holy cow. Like these, some of these people are genuinely trying to kill each other. Um, these are, these are not like the super high people who are here to see Cypress cell. These are like the straight edge people. Um, so yeah, that was a, that was a lot. That was a weird one. Not as weird as like, By any stretch of the imagination, but definitely a little bit weird. all right, we got two more of these and then
Lisa:Can I, so I use Google cuz I had, it was driving me nuts. The song that I was talking about was Rocky Top,
Meags:okay.
Lisa:Rocky. You
Meags:that makes sense.
Lisa:it's a good song.
Meags:It it's a very classic song. Yeah. No, like I, I. I have a lot of people like, because I know a lot of people who like the debt. I know a lot of people who like Phish and Phish actually like started out partially in my hometown and like Phish has a whole, like Phish is very big up here. Um, and I resisted them for a long time and I had a boyfriend in college who just loved them. And he had, there was one album that I liked cuz I had horns and I was like, okay, I, and he was like, you have to go see them, you have to go see them. And I was like, all. I will go because you have told me that there are going to be horns and there are going to be trampolines. And I'm really looking forward to these two things and neither are those things materialized. And I was like, I have been lied to and I'm not happy and I'm not going to see fish again. And in fact, the next time somebody offered me fish chicken, so I was like, thanks, I'm good. I'm just gonna sit outside and people watch, drink my beer, be happy. Um, but yes, Phish. Phish is definitely one. Like The Dead is one of those bands where it's like they start playing one thing and then all of a sudden you're. What are, what are we doing? What is happening?
Lisa:where are you taking us to? It's
Meags:You know, like, I mean, the Dead had like a whole part of the show like that where it was like drums and space and it was just like, I do remember falling asleep to it at one show, cuz I was just so tired. And it was like, they're not even singing, they're just like, noodling away. I'm just gonna take a little rest. which, you know, what's, what happens when you go see a lot of shows tomorrow? We're gonna, we got, I got two more questions for us and the last one is, is super easy. So we'll, we'll wrap up with this one and then we'll hit that one. Um, so your dream concert, it could be somebody who's still alive, it could be somebody who's dead. It could be, it could be any number of things, but what show, if you could just, like, if money was not an object to travel was not an issue, who would you like to see? And, Because I now, what inspires this question is that one of my little ones at work is an enormous Beyonce fan. Um, cuz that seems to be the only flavor they come in. But, um, and they just bought tickets for the Houston show because like she was not coming anywhere near here. And the decision was like the clutch decision that I helped make with for them was like, well go to her hometown then.
Kathy:Yeah. I mean, if you're gonna Yeah. Go towel for a show, to her hotel.
Meags:Exactly. So I was like, man, and like that's like totally their dream concert and they're very young so like I'm sure they'll come with a new dream concert, but I was like, gosh, I gotta think about this one. Cuz like, I don't know, I mean there's a lot of people I'd like to see, but there's a lot of people I'd like to see who I've already seen who I'm like, I'm pretty good with that. I don't even necessarily need to see them again.
Lisa:You know who I'd really love to see in concert, who, you know, they broke up whatever before you were born, or the Beatles. But the only thing is whenever you see. Videos of their concert. Everybody's screaming so much. Can anyone really even hear them play?
Meags:That, that was my mother's complaint about seeing the Beatles. Exactly. That everyone was so busy screaming, you couldn't hear them anyway. It didn't matter.
Lisa:Yeah. So I don't, but like my dream concert would be to hear them play and not have everybody screaming like crazy so I could actually hear them. Yes. So maybe my afterlife, I can hear that.
Kathy:I saw Palm McCartney once.
Meags:How was Paul McCartney?
Kathy:It was good.
Meags:I bet.
Kathy:It was really.
Meags:he was great.
Lisa:Yeah, I remember I got tickets once, free tickets to see Ringo start. I couldn't get anyone to go with me, so.
Meags:Aw,
Kathy:It's Ringo.
Meags:it's, come on.
Kathy:That's a lot of trouble to see
Meags:See, like you, you needed to get them a few years later cuz then you could have hit the bomb crowd with, it's like, it's the conductor from Thomas, the train engine. And that would've been like, oh,
Lisa:Ah
Meags:we're there, we're going.
Lisa:hmm.
Meags:We were very into that at my house. I only, nobody else was, but, okay.
Lisa:We, we were into Thomas the train, but I don't remember him being,
Meags:Yes, we, if you mm-hmm. I went through phase where I was only showing them the original British ones up right up until the point where my child looked at me and said, uh, what did he say, mama, do you see the Lori? And I said, oh boy. I probably need to stop at the British shows. I probably need to
Lisa:No, when they changed them over to, um, they updated it where the Thomas, the train mouth started moving,
Meags:Oh yeah.
Lisa:that freaked out. My oldest, he, he was probably like, Four baby.
Meags:Yeah,
Lisa:what's going on? I had so sorry.
Meags:That's awesome.
Lisa:Anyway, I still, he remembers that. I think about that all the time in a very loving way.
Meags:Of course. Naturally, naturally. We just had that conversation at my house yesterday, like, your, your father only teases you because he loves you. Really? I know it doesn't feel like that, but it's true.
Lisa:Your life is okay. So what was your main, what was your question? Oh, dream, Dream
Meags:So Lisa's voting for the Beatles. Have You got, Kathy? You got any? You got any votes? Any
Kathy:I mean, I don't know. It was funny cuz I was sitting here like, as, as we're talking about this, I'm remembering all kinds of things that I've been to. So I actually like had to like start writing'em down. I've seen some pretty amazing people
Meags:Yeah.
Kathy:and I'm like, yeah, I'm pretty lucky. But there is, and it's happening. Like either just happened or it's about to happen in the next, like week or two I think. Um, so Willie Nelson's birthday is coming up and he is doing a two night. Willie Nelson's birthday bash thing, that's a Hollywood bowl,
Meags:Oh.
Kathy:the list of people
Meags:I'm sure it's crazy
Kathy:that is coming to play with him is insane. Plus the people that would be in that audience, right?
Meags:Bowl. That's
Kathy:Hollywood Bowl for Wills, Nelson's birthday. Uh, so I would say, That was the first thing that kind of came to my mind. And I've seen, I've seen Willie Nelson, I've seen several of the people that are on that, that lineup. But that would be, I think, a pretty amazing event to go to.
Meags:Yeah, for sure. For.
Kathy:And I think it's right around spring break cuz I was like, if we didn't already have plans and tickets to go somewhere else, I could have, could have been looking into that.
Meags:I say that sounds intense. Yeah. So like for me it's so hard cuz it's like I don't, after all this talking, I have to admit yeah. I'm not a huge concert person anymore. Like it's too loud and it's too crowded and it's just generally more than I wanna deal with.
Lisa:yeah. There was like Boys to Men. It's like, I like going to see the old school stuff. Like tickets were like for sale, boys to men. Joe didn't wanna go. And then I just didn't make any effort to find anyone else to go with though a friend of mine, I, I don't know, like five years ago we went to see the Gogos and that was just so fun, you know, just total eighties and just stupid fun and yeah, that was,
Kathy:There is, there is. It's not like a, a bucket list kind of thing. It's just kind of one of those things where it's like every, like I've, every time I've had the opportunity, I've missed the opportunity for good reason. But like since the early two thousands when Nick and I lived in New Orleans and, and, uh, Atlanta, I mean, I've wanted to see the killers. I love the killers. I've always wanted to see the killers, and it was like they're coming. To Atlanta, but it was like right after we were moving back to Houston
Meags:Yeah.
Kathy:and so we missed them and then the next time they came around, it was when I was pregnant, but very late in the pregnancy kind of deal. And to the, to, to the point where I was like, I was literally standing there like the day of Maybe we should go You know, like one of those things I was like, I just don't, and I did go, I did go to a concert, when I was pregnant, like right bef like maybe like a month before that, my best friend and I went to see Billy Joel and Elton John. They, it was like their second go round of tours and the first time they went, we were like, kind of like right outta college or whatever, and we were on our computers like the morning that the tickets opened up and we're both like on the phone, on our computers trying to get, and we, we just couldn't get tickets. And so later her husband bought us tickets for like Christmas and. You know, but I, I went pregnant. Um, I mean, we had nice, we had like floor seats and I was like, I'm asking my doctor. I'm like, is this okay? And she's like, as long as you're not, not right by the speaker, you know, she's like, you'll be fine. But, um, so I just kept missing. It was like, you know, now I'm even sure like the type of venues and stuff that the killers play at, I, I, it's like my least, like my least favorite. Pay to see, you know, I'm like, I'm not standing room somewhere. I mean, you know, whatever. So I'm like, I don't, you know, I don't know actually that with the opportunity to present, but, you know, 17 years ago,
Meags:Yeah, exactly. Well, that's like
Lisa:Yeah.
Kathy:it.
Meags:I, when, when I was. And the many, many years I was in college at one point, we went a couple of times to Vermont to see, um, Ben and Jerry's puts on a music festival. As you can imagine, the happiest place on Earth puts on a pretty good show. It's very chill. There's a lot of ice cream. Um, and they used to do it at Sugarbush, which is in, in like on like the ski resort. So like they literally just had a stage set up at the bottom of one of the ski hills. So it was great cause there was like an unlimited amount of.
Kathy:Right.
Meags:could like, get down in front or you could just go up and sit on the hill and you were outside. Um, and we saw some fun people there. But if, like, if I could go to more shows like that, I think I would be more into going to shows. But like the, the crush and the like, Let's go be super sweaty and gross and then like walk out in the cold and like, ugh, I gotta really, I gotta really be psyched for somebody to do that. And like, there's just not that many people. I'm not psyched for. Although when the boys were little, I bought tickets for my husband to see, um, his favorite band from high school. The Pixies did a tour where they just played through like their biggest album, which was like his. Most favorite album in high school, so I bought him tickets to go to that. And I feel like if there were some bands that did that, that I really loved, like maybe I would, maybe I could do that, but
Kathy:Yeah, that like whatever, like those albums that you would just play over and over and
Meags:Yeah, yeah. yeah. And that was one of those like crazy coincidence things where like, I hadn't gotten him tickets. So then I went on to like, well this was like the Craigslist era. So I went on to Craigslist to get tickets and I talked to somebody and they were like, yeah, I have tickets. And like I'm, you know, 20 minutes away, do you wanna come up and get them? And then I was like, wait a minute. Like, your name looks familiar. Like, are you my neighbor's coworker who used to live on the same street I used to live on? He's like, oh yeah, I'm totally, yeah, I've met you in the street. Like playing with our kids like here. Like I'll just send the tickets home with your neighbor and you can just send a check back with. I was like, okay, great. That sounds perfect. Um, uh, and he came home and I was just like, here go, like, there's no time to say no, there's no time to argue with me. Just go see them and be excited. Go enjoy them. And it's like, if somebody would do that for me, I think, I think it's the prep part that I'm really like, I don't wanna, I don't wanna fight for tickets. I don't wanna.
Lisa:Yeah, I have know a mom who, like, she got on and she got her and her daughter Taylor Swift tickets, and not here, but in Cincinnati, and I'm like, well, aren't you the mom of the year like you are. We're able to have this tickets. And you're willing to go with her to
Meags:Yeah. Well that's the other thing, like I know a lot of people now who travel to sea concerts, which I, I mean, I get it, like if you're really into somebody, but like that just seems like a lot for me. That's just more than I want to get involved in. I'm just really lazy. I think it's what this all comes down to.
Kathy:Yeah,
Meags:honest, but,
Kathy:I, I'm, I'm lazy about, but I will have to say I am a, a guilty pleasure Taylor Swift man, and I would totally go.
Meags:the, like, there's a difference between I would go and I would fight Ticketmaster to my last dying breath, which it
Kathy:Yeah,
Meags:like what people had to do.
Kathy:not fighting Ticketmaster,
Lisa:No. I don't wanna go to a concert with a bunch of screaming little preteen, teenagers. I dunno.
Meags:I don't know. Taylor's got a pretty wide audience at this point,
Kathy:I don't, know that that's the,
Meags:but it is, it was like a super huge like Christmas present kind of ticket. So
Kathy:it's not like a Hannah Montana concert, you know what I mean? I think it's.
Lisa:Well, yeah, I guess you're right. She's, her audience has probably more di gotten more diverse and I do enjoy her songs. It's just paying all that money for the tickets than traveling.
Meags:Well you, you should have seen their faces, the little ones faces at work. When I was explaining to'em that when we used to go see the dead, we had like, you had to do this whole thing where you would fill out index cards and you would mail them. Then you would, you would have to wait to see if you got tickets back in the mail. Like you would've thought that I was explaining like, I don't even know what, like, how, like how the first electricity was transmitted. They were all just like, what?
Lisa:You
Kathy:You had to,
Meags:You did what?
Kathy:you had to go to
Meags:Oh, and you had to, you had to send, um, a postal, like a postal money order. So yeah, it was like a whole,
Kathy:Yeah. Uh, we used to go, like, we used to go buy them at like the venue. Like they used to do a lot of concerts. You know, back when I was, you know, growing up, it was at the summit, which was where the rockets, I was the arena where the, you know, the rockets played. It was right, right next to our neighborhood. Um, you, you usually just drive to this part of the na like the neighborhood, then park back there by some house, cut through some bushes, and then walk over like a, a, a bridge that went over the freeway and you were right there. Um, but yeah, you had to go. I remember going there and buying tickets. I remember going there and buying tickets to in excess.
Meags:Oh, love them.
Kathy:yeah, I remember like Astra. Had like a venue in the back and we were seat ticket holders and you could go, if you were seat ticket holder, they just had like a lawn and it was just like general mission lawn. But then there were seats and so sometimes we were like, we want the seats and you'd have to go to the ticket window at Astroworld and buy buy tickets in advance. But I remember doing a lot of like buying. In advance or giving somebody money and they're, they'd convince their mom or somebody to go and take, you know, take them down to buy tickets, you know? Yeah. Was just like, yeah.
Lisa:So hard. Just old. You sound like grandparents. I used to have to walk 10. Walk to school.
Meags:In the snow up to my knees all year round.
Kathy:Yes.
Meags:Yeah,
Kathy:case, it probably was true
Meags:yeah,
Kathy:the year round part.
Meags:yeah. Red, like, it's not wrong. Like we got like, we like a foot and a half the other day. Um, alright, so we're gonna wrap this up even though I think we've already mentioned both of them, um, with our next planned concert. So I'm gonna let Lisa lead off cuz I'm very excited. I'm like even more excited about Lisa's concert than she is.
Lisa:I am going to the in. I kind of can't believe it's actually finally gonna happen. So I'm going to see the Indigo girls. They're playing with the St. Louis Symphony next. Sunday. But the weird thing is, is we got these tickets like a year ago. We were supposed to see a Memorial Day weekend, but someone in the band got covid, so they had to cancel and reschedule. And I'm impressed that they res, I mean, it's 10 months later, but they rescheduled, you know, they didn't just cancel it and they screwed, you know, too bad. So I, I am excited and I'm sure all week during, while I'm working, I'm gonna be listening to their songs and getting. Myself mentally prepared for it all.
Meags:I love that. That sounds awesome.
Lisa:Um, that's all I did. But I wish it wasn't on Sunday night, cuz then I have to get up and work the next day.
Meags:what coffee's for.
Kathy:Right. Sometimes it's worth it.
Meags:Exactly.
Lisa:Yeah. And actually, actually, and I'm starting a new detail thing, which I'll tell you guys. Actually at the end of this recording, it's actually kind of exciting, but I'm doing this new thing for work and the training starts that day, so I'll be like half asleep. But anyway, I'll still be working from home, so that's the important thing.
Meags:There you go. Perfect.
Lisa:Mm-hmm.
Meags:What about you, Kathy? You got one on the books?
Kathy:I don't have one on the books, but I did find out yesterday that I might. Have the opportunity, add a ticket to go ski on Tuesday night if I wanna go to see new kids on the block who's playing at the Houston Live section on Rodeo. Um, so haven't, um, you know, and it's again, like I'm sitting there, I'm like, and then, and you know, there's, we've got a couple parking passes. I'm like, okay, parking pass traffic. Still a crowd. It's like, still, is it worth it? Well, I
Meags:Yeah.
Kathy:animals, so that's fun. You know,
Meags:you have to balance it all out.
Kathy:and, and, and it is very, like, the whole thing's very orchestrated. Um, so it's not like a super late night, you know? I mean it's, you know, I mean, yes, it's, you know, I think the concert's in like 10 maybe.
Meags:Yeah, yeah,
Kathy:They're over at 10, so,
Meags:yeah. But yeah, we, we went through a phase. I went through a phase when I had a friend living in town who loves to see live music and. Her husband, um, also likes live music, but does not like to stay out late and really likes jam bands, which she and I are not crazy about. Um, but we used to go see people all the time, in part because, um, there's a parking lot, like literally right around the corner that belongs to one of the TV news stations that my husband does business with. So I had a business card to leave on my dash that was like, we're allowed to park here. Because it, like, it just, it was like, oh, we can, we, we are gonna be able to park right there and just walk around the corner. Okay. Like, we don't have to like, go downtown and search for parking. Like, okay, we'll, we'll will I get, Matt makes this concert like a hundred times more appealing
Kathy:Yes.
Meags:like, I, I can do this, I can manage this now I can make it happen.
Kathy:Yeah. If they could take the hassle of going and leaving out of it,
Meags:Yeah.
Kathy:I'd maybe be more inclined to go to places.
Meags:I hear that a hundred percent. I, I think I, I think I've really fully gone around the bed bend and I'm now at the point in my life where I'm like thinking, well, maybe I could go see a touring Broadway show. Like that's a lot of singing, but that's like seats and organized and dinner and that just seems like a little more my speed at this point. Like I'm just not, especially my standing room only concert days are,
Kathy:Oh.
Lisa:Yeah,
Kathy:are definitely gone.
Lisa:Mm.
Meags:Like they've, they're, they've passed. They've passed me by. They, they have. Uh, and I'm afraid to say that out loud cause I'm afraid Dre's gonna listen to this and she's gonna be like, no, this great thing.
Kathy:Nope. Nope. I'm standing. If I don't have a place to sit, I'm not going.
Lisa:Right. I can stand for parts of the concert, but I need a seat, place to sit when I'm ready to sit. Cause that's just me.
Meags:I I think that's very fair. I think that's very fair. All right, kids, that, that was all the concert questions I had for us. I appreciate you both being so willing to share your weird and wonderful concert stories with us because they're very entertaining and I feel like everybody has great concert stories, especially you two. You guys got great, like super fun ones. So what did you, are you ready to wrap us up? Lisa,
Lisa:I think we're, I think we're good. I think we need to. Say goodbye to our lovely listeners.
Meags:Goodbye. Lovely listeners. Until next time,
Lisa:Lovely listener. listener. all.