4 Oct
2002
4 Oct
'02
1:29 p.m.
My first arena rock concert was ELP on the Brain Salad Surgery Tour. Four enormous banks of speakers creating mind-numbing quadrophenia as the bombast ping-ponged around the space from corner to corner and then whirled around the perimeter with blinding speed. While it might put me to sleep from this vantage point some 30 years hence, at the time it was a gooseflesh inducing spectatcle I am pleased to have in the memory vault.