oliveu2cm
Rock n' Roll Doggie FOB
I was reading Zooropamanda's post in 6 degrees of Separation .. s/he can tell the story BUT it brought up this point to me:
Who do you know, who had an encounter with the band, and didn't even know who they were?
I have a whopper of a story. I'm friends w/ a big fan who is a few years younger than the band. Her friend (Christy, let's say, I dont really know her name) lived in New England, and this was around the time the band was young and just getting started. Bill Flanagan talked about it, how they spent so much time in New England you would have thought they lived in Seekonk. This is also around the time Flanagan mentioned going to a cookout and Adam called it "a burnout".. so anyway this Christy woman was at one of these cookouts, and this young fresh band was there, and everyone was having a good time, partying, etc. Then as the night got on, they all wanted to go out on the town somewhere, and these four guys asked Christy if they could go back to her place and shower to get ready and go out. And she said no.
Another, less coma-inducing story, is my aunt who worked at the providence performing art center, and her friend challenged her she couldn't get to the worcester centrum (i think in 87 JT tour) to see U2, and she took that challenge, got a seat 4 rows from the stage, and only stayed for half the show to win the bet, and then went back to work.
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"We get our skis on and Bono
falls over immediately..." (Adam '82)
*!* U2 TAKE ME HIGHER *!*
Who do you know, who had an encounter with the band, and didn't even know who they were?
I have a whopper of a story. I'm friends w/ a big fan who is a few years younger than the band. Her friend (Christy, let's say, I dont really know her name) lived in New England, and this was around the time the band was young and just getting started. Bill Flanagan talked about it, how they spent so much time in New England you would have thought they lived in Seekonk. This is also around the time Flanagan mentioned going to a cookout and Adam called it "a burnout".. so anyway this Christy woman was at one of these cookouts, and this young fresh band was there, and everyone was having a good time, partying, etc. Then as the night got on, they all wanted to go out on the town somewhere, and these four guys asked Christy if they could go back to her place and shower to get ready and go out. And she said no.
Another, less coma-inducing story, is my aunt who worked at the providence performing art center, and her friend challenged her she couldn't get to the worcester centrum (i think in 87 JT tour) to see U2, and she took that challenge, got a seat 4 rows from the stage, and only stayed for half the show to win the bet, and then went back to work.
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"We get our skis on and Bono
falls over immediately..." (Adam '82)
*!* U2 TAKE ME HIGHER *!*