Old Mathew
Well-Known Member
What do people think of this? I haven't heard it yet, but a sad story...
I first discovered the Smiths in the late fall of 1985, when I was learning drums and a friend told me how great the beat was in "How Soon is Now?" So we went to the record store and I bought the cassette of Meat is Murder and we listened to it (this was in New Hampshire, so, the American version) over and over. Soon thereafter I bought the debut album, but it wasn't till the summer of 1986 that I finally gave that album a real listen and really got into the band. Posters went up on the walls, and early that fall I finally finagled the $8 or so to buy the cassette of The Queen is Dead and really fell in love. Was it March or so that Louder Than Bombs came out in 1987? I remember waiting for Strangeways, Here We Come to come out that following fall, knowing, with great disappointment, that they were already broken up.
I didn't really start going to concerts until that December (of 1986) when I went for my first show, which was... wait for it... Gene Loves Jezebel with Flesh for Lulu at the Orpheum in Boston. No judgement, please -- they were just British bands and I realized that I could actually go see them 90 miles to the south of me! By the time I truly loved the Smiths and realized they had played close to me, I was devastated that I had missed it.
This was, of course, way before the Internet. And I was 14. Only college kids had the network then to know who was playing where. A young kid in New Hampshire -- I didn't have a chance of even knowing they were playing, or yet realizing I could go see them.
TL; DR: If I had been 6 months more precocious, I could've been at the show!
Postscript: After 5 long years of waiting, I finally saw Morrissey for the first time at Great Woods on July 3, 1991, and got on stage to hug him during "Suedehead."
Those were magical times.
So what do you think of the recording?
I first discovered the Smiths in the late fall of 1985, when I was learning drums and a friend told me how great the beat was in "How Soon is Now?" So we went to the record store and I bought the cassette of Meat is Murder and we listened to it (this was in New Hampshire, so, the American version) over and over. Soon thereafter I bought the debut album, but it wasn't till the summer of 1986 that I finally gave that album a real listen and really got into the band. Posters went up on the walls, and early that fall I finally finagled the $8 or so to buy the cassette of The Queen is Dead and really fell in love. Was it March or so that Louder Than Bombs came out in 1987? I remember waiting for Strangeways, Here We Come to come out that following fall, knowing, with great disappointment, that they were already broken up.
I didn't really start going to concerts until that December (of 1986) when I went for my first show, which was... wait for it... Gene Loves Jezebel with Flesh for Lulu at the Orpheum in Boston. No judgement, please -- they were just British bands and I realized that I could actually go see them 90 miles to the south of me! By the time I truly loved the Smiths and realized they had played close to me, I was devastated that I had missed it.
This was, of course, way before the Internet. And I was 14. Only college kids had the network then to know who was playing where. A young kid in New Hampshire -- I didn't have a chance of even knowing they were playing, or yet realizing I could go see them.
TL; DR: If I had been 6 months more precocious, I could've been at the show!
Postscript: After 5 long years of waiting, I finally saw Morrissey for the first time at Great Woods on July 3, 1991, and got on stage to hug him during "Suedehead."
Those were magical times.
So what do you think of the recording?
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