Comments on: Morrissey at the Paramount! http://shelby.idstrom.com/2007/05/02/morrissey-at-the-paramount/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 28 Jul 2011 05:58:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Chris http://shelby.idstrom.com/2007/05/02/morrissey-at-the-paramount/comment-page-1/#comment-353 Chris Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:42:36 +0000 http://shelby.idstrom.com/2007/05/02/morrissey-at-the-paramount/#comment-353 Hey Matt, I was at the Pauley show too- unbelievable! I tossed the LA Times article on it several years ago, but glad to see a friend of Shelby's was witness to the unlikeliest of riot scenarios! I do have a cassette copy of the live concert KROQ aired from the Hammersmith Odeon in 91 which is a great show. I will try to rip it to hard drive and get Shelby a cd copy. Hey Matt,

I was at the Pauley show too- unbelievable! I tossed the LA Times article on it several years ago, but glad to see a friend of Shelby’s was witness to the unlikeliest of riot scenarios! I do have a cassette copy of the live concert KROQ aired from the Hammersmith Odeon in 91 which is a great show. I will try to rip it to hard drive and get Shelby a cd copy.

]]> By: Matthew http://shelby.idstrom.com/2007/05/02/morrissey-at-the-paramount/comment-page-1/#comment-352 Matthew Sat, 09 Jun 2007 19:46:15 +0000 http://shelby.idstrom.com/2007/05/02/morrissey-at-the-paramount/#comment-352 Here's my 1991 flash-back: Amy, Angela and I waited up all night for Morrissey tix in 1991 and managed to back into a car on our way out of the Wherehouse parking lot on North Lake. I will certainly never forget that experience, or the extra job I had to take that summer to pay for the damage. Somehow it was all worth it just for that night . . . probably the first time in my life when I realized the sincere and unblinking injustice of the cruel universe. We waited up all night and they went ahead and did a lottery anyway so our tickets sucked. Then at the actual show at Pauley Pavillion the crowd rioted and the show lasted all of 20 minutes, and I was one those throwing bricks at the pigs and looting the t-shirts and Morrissey paraphenalia until they came in with tear gas. My first experience with American-style rioting and looting prior to the 1992 Uprising. That night, I didn't even end up with a tshirt tho, and had to buy a badly silkscreened one from an African immigrant in the parking lot for $10. Flash forward to 2007 - I missed SPM this time around - too busy, too many kids, and suprisingly unwilling to part with the $125 for the arena tickets (no decent big venues in the San Jose metroplex, anyway). Thanks for this post, though - it made me feel as though I could have been there . . . brought back the nostalgia and the feelings of not-ever-ever fitting in, and yet without the buzz of cheap champagne and the residual cigarrette smoke stench in my hair and clothes. God, I must sound old and dried up - hopefully my former self in some parallel universe doesn't invent time/interdimensional travel and come kill me now. Here’s my 1991 flash-back:
Amy, Angela and I waited up all night for Morrissey tix in 1991 and managed to back into a car on our way out of the Wherehouse parking lot on North Lake. I will certainly never forget that experience, or the extra job I had to take that summer to pay for the damage. Somehow it was all worth it just for that night . . . probably the first time in my life when I realized the sincere and unblinking injustice of the cruel universe. We waited up all night and they went ahead and did a lottery anyway so our tickets sucked.

Then at the actual show at Pauley Pavillion the crowd rioted and the show lasted all of 20 minutes, and I was one those throwing bricks at the pigs and looting the t-shirts and Morrissey paraphenalia until they came in with tear gas. My first experience with American-style rioting and looting prior to the 1992 Uprising. That night, I didn’t even end up with a tshirt tho, and had to buy a badly silkscreened one from an African immigrant in the parking lot for $10.

Flash forward to 2007 – I missed SPM this time around – too busy, too many kids, and suprisingly unwilling to part with the $125 for the arena tickets (no decent big venues in the San Jose metroplex, anyway). Thanks for this post, though – it made me feel as though I could have been there . . . brought back the nostalgia and the feelings of not-ever-ever fitting in, and yet without the buzz of cheap champagne and the residual cigarrette smoke stench in my hair and clothes.
God, I must sound old and dried up – hopefully my former self in some parallel universe doesn’t invent time/interdimensional travel and come kill me now.

]]> By: Jose http://shelby.idstrom.com/2007/05/02/morrissey-at-the-paramount/comment-page-1/#comment-273 Jose Thu, 10 May 2007 16:26:17 +0000 http://shelby.idstrom.com/2007/05/02/morrissey-at-the-paramount/#comment-273 ack! i meant in june, it'll be the 5th! ack! i meant in june, it’ll be the 5th!

]]> By: Jose http://shelby.idstrom.com/2007/05/02/morrissey-at-the-paramount/comment-page-1/#comment-272 Jose Wed, 09 May 2007 20:37:24 +0000 http://shelby.idstrom.com/2007/05/02/morrissey-at-the-paramount/#comment-272 like the song says, <i>"but don't forget the songs that made you cry/and the songs that saved your life/yes, you're older now/and you're a clever swine/but they were the only ones who ever stood by you..."</i> anyway, aww. this post rocked. i've seen mozzer four times now and in june, it'll be the fourth. it never gets old, and it's kinda ironic how as mopey as the lyrics are, to me, it's still invigorating - bringing back the overall great feelings of younger times when life was not as slow and boring, and everything had some drama to it. anyway, your post also reminded me of this clip of this fan totally sobbing and falling apart on air while talking to morrissey when he was at kroq in 1991. <i>Oh my God! Morrissey! You’re like - you’re like so special and your songs so like, SPEAK TO ME, you know?! And everyone wonders why I like you so much?! I mean, not everybody, but like kids my own age, because I’m like thirteen, everybody’s listening to New Kids On the Block-stuff and wearing THOSE STUPID SHINY BLACK SHOES?! And, um, [pause, sob] and it’s just, I don’t know, it’s just [crying even more] YOU’RE SO SPECIAL! And you’re the best singer ever [full-on crying and falling apart]! And I almost wanted to go do… I mean, I almost got to your concert, and I was so mad when I didn’t get to it when, and it mean [sic], it sold out in twenty minutes and I...I felt like… OH GOD! YOU’RE JUST SO SPECIAL! I’M SO HAPPY THAT LIKE YOU’RE GONNA HEAR THIS [sic]… OH GOD! I’M SO HAPPY I WAS ABLE TO GET THROUGH, AND…. I LO@$%$#%$@%^@$%&VE YOUUU!!!! OH MY GOD! </i> like the song says, “but don’t forget the songs that made you cry/and the songs that saved your life/yes, you’re older now/and you’re a clever swine/but they were the only ones who ever stood by you…”

anyway, aww. this post rocked. i’ve seen mozzer four times now and in june, it’ll be the fourth. it never gets old, and it’s kinda ironic how as mopey as the lyrics are, to me, it’s still invigorating – bringing back the overall great feelings of younger times when life was not as slow and boring, and everything had some drama to it.

anyway, your post also reminded me of this clip of this fan totally sobbing and falling apart on air while talking to morrissey when he was at kroq in 1991.

Oh my God! Morrissey! You’re like – you’re like so special and your songs so like, SPEAK TO ME, you know?! And everyone wonders why I like you so much?! I mean, not everybody, but like kids my own age, because I’m like thirteen, everybody’s listening to New Kids On the Block-stuff and wearing THOSE STUPID SHINY BLACK SHOES?! And, um, [pause, sob] and it’s just, I don’t know, it’s just [crying even more] YOU’RE SO SPECIAL! And you’re the best singer ever [full-on crying and falling apart]! And I almost wanted to go do… I mean, I almost got to your concert, and I was so mad when I didn’t get to it when, and it mean [sic], it sold out in twenty minutes and I…I felt like… OH GOD! YOU’RE JUST SO SPECIAL! I’M SO HAPPY THAT LIKE YOU’RE GONNA HEAR THIS [sic]… OH GOD! I’M SO HAPPY I WAS ABLE TO GET THROUGH, AND…. I LO@$%$#%$@%^@$%&VE YOUUU!!!! OH MY GOD!

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