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October 4, 2005
INXS
Today INXS released "Live At Barker Hangar" (available at the Apple Music Store). If you were a fan you remember the tours the band did in '93, in which they played unusual venues: airplane hangars, convention halls. I saw them twice that year, once in a convention hall at the Amon Carter in Ft. Worth, once at the Bomb Factory in Dallas.
I paid $100 a ticket to get into the Bomb Factory show. It was worth every penny. And the Amon Carter show was even better.
How I miss that band.
I'm afraid I'll miss them even more, now that "Rock Star: INXS" is over. Instead of picking a singer who could carry the band into a new era, they played it safe by picking J. D. Fortune as their new frontman. (Even after that epileptic fit he had in the middle of "What You Need." What was that?) J.D.'s not bad, but check out the video for "Time" included in the Barker Hangar CD: He's not bad, but he can't do that. I'd have been happy to buy a ticket to see them with Marty Casey, or Suzie McNeil, but J.D.? I'm still not convinced enough to plop down the money.
At least I have my new live CD. And it has a video. Mmmmmmm.
Update: What was I thinking? Of course I'll go see them. The Lovehammers will be opening.
Posted by lynx at October 4, 2005 9:12 PM
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I really wish that JD would at least enunciate. I'd go to see INXS just to see Marty Casey.
Posted by: susie at October 5, 2005 9:00 AM
I saw them in (I think) '88 at Texas Stadium with Guns N' Roses, Ziggy Marley, and a whole slew of other people. :) They put on a hell of a show.
And now I've got "Mr. Brownstone" stuck in my head. :D
Posted by: KathyJo at October 6, 2005 9:40 PM
Oh, wow. I wasn't able to go to that show, but I had the huge poster for it on my dorm room wall.
Posted by: Stephanie at October 8, 2005 11:36 PM