Four For Friday - The Secret Guests - A Dancing Boy Blind Item
Unlike this other person, I can't say that I "stole his lips and his halo." But he did smile at me, and snap my picture backstage at this show on April 20, 1990 - I was sixteen. He and his band mate were (could you even make this up?) the secret guests at a concert.
It was held at a venue in a prefab Maryland city built by my friend Lou's grandfather. (One of his other grandsons is this actor who at the time I first met him had shaved his head for an upcoming movie role about a certain kind of radicals. Who was he dating at the time? The widow of the generational icon. More about him/them later...)
My parents, it turns out, promoted this show (spoiler alert: it rained). So I had a backstage pass, which gave me the opportunity to observe fascinating goings on, such as the blond half of the female folk duo tying her shoes, and the singer of a certain band referenced above drinking a diet coke.
He was mostly taking pictures of his musician friends, so it surprised and embarrassed me when he turned the camera on me. I was too shy to ask for an autograph.
How do you know he/they were there? There is a tape, of course - and it's online. It was one of the very few times the singer performed his vocal parts live with these two other acts.
Update: I guess you don't need to find the audio (unless you're so inclined - the quality isn't great) because the band (the big one, I mean) mention this show on their Facebook page. (And they're right: none of it is on youtube. It wasn't, however, a lovely day - as they suggest. The people on the lawn behind the seats got soaked. A certain British electric folk singer, who played guitar in this case on the band's fourth lp eco-themed song, dedicated his set to them. True to his m/o as a songwriter, I guess he could see outside the bubble.)
It was held at a venue in a prefab Maryland city built by my friend Lou's grandfather. (One of his other grandsons is this actor who at the time I first met him had shaved his head for an upcoming movie role about a certain kind of radicals. Who was he dating at the time? The widow of the generational icon. More about him/them later...)
My parents, it turns out, promoted this show (spoiler alert: it rained). So I had a backstage pass, which gave me the opportunity to observe fascinating goings on, such as the blond half of the female folk duo tying her shoes, and the singer of a certain band referenced above drinking a diet coke.
He was mostly taking pictures of his musician friends, so it surprised and embarrassed me when he turned the camera on me. I was too shy to ask for an autograph.
How do you know he/they were there? There is a tape, of course - and it's online. It was one of the very few times the singer performed his vocal parts live with these two other acts.
Update: I guess you don't need to find the audio (unless you're so inclined - the quality isn't great) because the band (the big one, I mean) mention this show on their Facebook page. (And they're right: none of it is on youtube. It wasn't, however, a lovely day - as they suggest. The people on the lawn behind the seats got soaked. A certain British electric folk singer, who played guitar in this case on the band's fourth lp eco-themed song, dedicated his set to them. True to his m/o as a songwriter, I guess he could see outside the bubble.)
