MinneChristo

Hypstrz playing at Barely Brothers records.

Between the Hypstrz, the Mofos and King Kustom & the Cruisers, I've seen the Batson brothers more in my life than any other performers. Including today's show.

I've been meaning to do that as a personal project sometime. When I get that going you'll be among the first to know!

I started there in spring '83, initially so I could get into the Dead Kennedys show at the Great Hall that spring. I did a lot of the publicity work in 83-84, and ran the club in 84-85. I have a bunch of flyers from my time there and a "manager" folder with memos and some history.

That checks out. I found this in the Whole's "annual report" for the '83-84 school year. I can't recall if I worked that LFR show, but I have strong memories of some of the shows on this list.

Thank you note from Sweet Taste of Afrika to the Whole, for the shows they played there Feb 19-20 1981.

I have a folder full of Whole archives from that time. I just checked and learned that Sweet Taste of Afrika was playing in the Whole the night the Replacements were over at Willey.

One would think this show would have been at the Whole over in Coffman Union, but the Whole was in transition at that time from its "coffeehouse" folk/jazz orientation to its "progressive" iteration. I started volunteering at the Whole a year later when new wave/punk shows took over.

I was a senior in high school when I went to this show, and started at UMN the following fall. I don't recall any other shows happening at the Willey auditorium, but I did eventually return there for Psych 1001.

Wow, this is really great.

Album cover for the Golden Record alongside the cover of Avengers #4 (which was included with the record).

When I was a small child my parents bought me the Golden Records audio version of Avengers #4. In the recording Namor refers to himself as the Sub-ma-REEN-er. I think that settles it.

Yep. Steve had a band in Chicago called Strike Under in the early 80s - a significant part of the scene there alongside Big Black, Naked Raygun, the Effigies etc.

I got to know him a bit when he moved to Mpls and started dating a friend of mine.

Five concerts you’ve seen with women lead singers
Blondie
The Pretenders
X
Shonen Knife
Stereolab

Tacos al pastor at LomaBonita market in Richfield. Quite good.

47.5 at the southern end of Field

My mother in law was a classmate of hers at West High.

Along with @lollardfish.bsky.social, of course.

Taylor Schlitz: On this MLK Day, a letter from Minnesota In 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” His words are especially relevant today given what is happening in Minnesota, Haley Taylor Schlitz writes.

This is very good. Haley Taylor Schlitz is a great addition to the Strib's stable of contributing columnists. Gift link.
www.startribune.com/mn-ice-surge...

Went to that show with a high school crush and a couple of her friends. I could write a pretty cringe short story about that night.

The concert itself? Fantastic. Two of my favorite bands at the time, both in their prime.

We're already boycotting Target. How do we do a double boycott

Cat and African grey parrot sitting together on my dining room table

I don't know, this is a typical scene at my house

Yep, '82 - Under the Big Black Sun tour. I was there too. I remember Exene trying to get the ushers/security to lighten up and let people dance but to no avail. Still a great show, but yeah, awkward.

And I low-key bugged Lou Barlow a couple years ago at the MN State Fair. I saw him walking toward me, looked him in the eye and gave him a guy nod, just to be a stinker. He ignored me and kept walking.

I strolled through a Fluxus exhibit at the Walker Art Center at the same time as Lee, Thurston and Kim (I don't think Steve was there). I did not bug them but yeah, I tailed'em for awhile.

I was doing the same, left Chicago at 8am. 94 turned into a nightmare around Osseo. I gave up and am now at a hotel in Eau Claire for the night.

I saw it 7 times at the Southtown that summer. Rode my bike there to catch the matinee showing again and again.

Honestly first time I've tuned in ever

Okay, just tuned in, it's still going. It's gotta mean something.

Right?

And then I discovered that Curt was a musician with a record of his own! I was in awe.

My first exposure to the Commandos (and the existence of a local music scene) was when I was 15, shopping at Comic City in the summer of '79. Curtiss A was working there and was spinning that live Commandos record in the store. One of those primary formative experiences.

For 20+ years, whenever any public figure died, someone in my household would say "and yet Cheney lives." Guess we'll have to come up with a new one.