A federal judge, appointed by President Donald Trump, issued a temporary restraining order in response to a lawsuit filed by unions representing USAID workers. (Scripps News)
When I was in high school, listening to rock music like many of my peers, I looked for new music wherever I might find it. Late at night I would try to take advantage of atmospheric changes and tune in to a public radio station operated by Florida State University and run by people who played anything that was out of the mainstream. There was a lot of good stuff to be discovered there. And I’d pore over music magazines like Rolling Stone, Circus, Crawdaddy, and Creem.
I saw a lot of concerts in my youth, and mostly here at home or within a short driving distance. Tickets were relatively cheap — $8 to $20, depending on the act and the venue. And you got tickets by standing in line outside a box office, or mailing a money order to an out-of-town venue. Or you might go to a ticket outlet, usually a record store like Music Scene in Northside Mall, where I sold many concert tickets while working there a few years in the late 1970s.
Those were the good ol’ days. Concert-going today is a lot different. For starters, tickets are usually far more expensive than they once were; if you can get into a show for under $100, you’ve gotten a bargain. Scalping is now legal under the concept of “dynamic pricing,” but from a consumer’s perspective, it’s still a raw deal.
Today, as I write this, I’m listening to a group of fellows who go by the name Sunny and the Black Pack. I’d seen a short video of a heavy-set Asian man singing Jimi Hendrix’s “Little Wing” while strumming a ukelele. When he got to the “guitar solo” portion of the tune, he went to town on that little toy-like instrument, wringing out a wailing sonic soliloquy that left my jaw agape.
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