Chico Harris
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30 years ago this week was the first time I can remember going to see the opener over the headliner: U2 opened for the J. Geils Band in Auditorium North Hall in Memphis.
U2 were thunderous and melodically great. J. Geils, while I did like hearing "Must Have Got Lost," were in their Centerfold period.
I'm glad I got semi-early U2 in a small setting, but hate I missed what happened later:
All of the band told a Memphis cabbie to take them to a "cowboy" bar. The guy took them north to hardscrabble Frayser, to the legendary blue collar roughhouse called Miller's Cave. A place a lot of people would call a redneck bar.
It was Adam Clayton's 22nd birthday, and the band arrived after midnight. The Miller Brothers were playing and by all accounts, U2 had a great time there, probably most likely when they got on stage and drunkenly performed "Southern Man" and "Out Of Control."
U2
"Southern Man" live in Belfast, 1987:
U2 - Southern Man (live 1987) - YouTube
"Out Of Control" (live in 1982)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOaC-KNeXXs
U2 were thunderous and melodically great. J. Geils, while I did like hearing "Must Have Got Lost," were in their Centerfold period.
I'm glad I got semi-early U2 in a small setting, but hate I missed what happened later:
All of the band told a Memphis cabbie to take them to a "cowboy" bar. The guy took them north to hardscrabble Frayser, to the legendary blue collar roughhouse called Miller's Cave. A place a lot of people would call a redneck bar.
It was Adam Clayton's 22nd birthday, and the band arrived after midnight. The Miller Brothers were playing and by all accounts, U2 had a great time there, probably most likely when they got on stage and drunkenly performed "Southern Man" and "Out Of Control."
U2
"Southern Man" live in Belfast, 1987:
U2 - Southern Man (live 1987) - YouTube
"Out Of Control" (live in 1982)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOaC-KNeXXs