There’s a new book out that I’m dying to read called "The Long Tail" (I won’t bore you with the details here) and it is written by a guy named Chris Anderson who has a blog by the same name. It ends up that in the early 80s he was in a punk band in DC and he has a great story about how his band ended up in a kind of "battle of the bands" against REM at the 9:30 Club in 1982. The 9:30 Club was easily the best place to see live music in DC for years (I have no idea what’s going on in DC these days) and REM has always been one of my favorite bands so this story hit home with me.
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Tell me you are aware that REM practically lived in GSO for a time.
I didn’t know that…but of course until 2004 Greensboro was nothing more to me than a rest stop before getting to Winston-Salem. Actually it was more like the home of the only traffic jam I would run into between DC and Winston-Salem until the 40 expansion and 85 bypass were completed, but that’s another story.
Did you get to see them play back in the day?
Nah, I was too old when they were here.