![]() ![]() I remember Justin telling the crowd how they usually play the 9:30 Club. I could never remember the name of that club. Seeing those shows in the 4th appendix of the book were about as close to those shows I have been in over 20 years. Unfortunately, I can't do that for those Del Amitri shows from 19. I can watch that footage anytime of a band on the cusp to becoming one of the biggest bands in the world. I can also go back to the very first time I saw Mumford and Son, in a tiny club for 10$ with only about 200 people. I can go to Youtube and listen to Lord Huron crush my favorite part of "The Stranger" from that show at the Van Buren. ![]() I have been to many concerts in my 46 years, but one of the biggest changes is how easy it is to document and relive these concerts thanks to social media: either my own or others. Seeing those dates and the names of the clubs flooded my memories of bits and pieces and fragments of those three nights. Three nights that are of mythic proportions in my canon, the three nights I got to see Del Amitri. The April show at the 9:30 Club, the August 12 show at the Bayou, and that last time Jat the Supper Club in New York City. When I try to remember these concerts, it is like the Toad the Wet Sprocket lyric "don't even have pictures, just memories to hold, that grow greater each season, as we slowly get old." These Are Such Perfect Days provides in the 4th appendix a "Dell Amitri: Gig List." As weird as this may sound, this was one of the most powerful parts of this detailed history for me personally. I always thought that show was during the winter, but according to the new biography/history of Del Amitri These Are Such Perfect Days: The del Amitri Story by Charles Rawlings-Way it was during the Spring: April 1995.ฤก995 was before cellphone cameras. But there is a lot about that show I don't remember. #Lord huron lyric video ghost on the shore full#I remember it was the first time I was in a room full of people who loved Del Amitri as much as I did. I remember paying a guy to "watch" our car when we parked, I remember the t-shirt I bought, and I clearly remember Justin doing an extended version of "Last to Know" where he climbed on top of some table or a different part of the stage where he got very close to the crowd. I thought I remembered more about that first show. The first Del Amitri show year in DC was at the 9:30 Club. Summer 1995, that cusp year between trying to stay in Virginia and hang onto to college and college friends and going back to New York to put on my big boy pants and start the career I am still in 23 years later. It was the second time I saw them in DC that year. It was the second time I saw them on the tour promoting Twisted. It was the second time I saw Del Amitri live. But I could never remember the name of the club. "The Bayou," I could never remember its name. ![]()
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