At work right now…It’s kinda quiet today though.
AFI’s album Sing the Sorrow turns 16 today. That album got me through a lot of shit. It’s one of my favorite albums of all time. I love AFI so much, one of my top 5 bands. I saw them in concert in August 2017. It was amazing, even got my daughter to fall in love with their music. My husband hated it…but I think even worse than the music was the atmosphere for him…but he doesn’t like that style of music either, and the two opening bands were terrible.
So I mentioned yesterday also, that I saw Lucero in November, they are definitely now one of my top 5 bands as well. Like they kinda already were before I saw them live, and then that cemented it. Even though I saw them at Dante’s which is a terrible venue with lousy acoustics…the show was still FUCKING AMAZING!!! I missed buying my ticket when they were on sale, but luckily I found someone who had an extra ticket they needed to sell. I didn’t take a bunch of pics, I just took one, and enjoyed the music.
I really would love to see them again. I hope they are back in PDX soon. Shortly after this concert they got some National recognition when they performed and interviewed on GMA, I think was the show. And I think that is pretty badass, but at the same time, I was thinking oh damn, now they’re gonna get super famous and they’ll play bigger venues and ticket prices will go up and tons of other people will want to go see them so it will be harder to get tickets…haha I might have been thinking a little selfishly…but I just love them so much! ❤
I first discovered Lucero because I was listening to a station on iheartradio based off of Christian Kane, and a song called “Last Pale Light in the West” came on, it is by Ben Nichols, the front man for Lucero, on his solo album. I fell in love with that song, and found the album to listen to, then late found he front Lucero and I fell in love with that as well. My favorite of their albums is Tennessee, but they are ALL amazing! And that song, plus one other by Ben have been featured on one of my favorite TV shows, The Walking Dead!!! ❤
This past weekend there was a PJ tribute band show in PDX, also included Nirvana and Mother Love Bone tributes, I wanted to go so bad, but didn’t get to. It was called Flannel Fest, hopefully they’ll come back here again…maybe next year.
I am getting a new Pearl Jam tattoo soon, in the next couple of weeks. “Given to fly…” in Eddie’s handwriting from his lyrics journal. It’s going to go along my right collar bone opposite my humming bird. I really can’t wait til I can start the Eddie Vedder portrait tattoo. That one will be gorgeous! ❤
Ok, But First Coffee! 