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A wow in a world full of ho-hums • most successful of the worst band names • Lords Of Portland • Community engagement
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Chinook / Cowlitz Land portugaltheman.comBorn June 6Joined May 2008
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swapping soundboards, starting a “street team.” I think of how amazing it is to go ages without talking to some of these people now, but get together in the same room, and it’s like nothing’s changed. I’m lucky enough to say that I’ve seen PTM at my favorite place six times now,
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I think back on this community that was built when this band was opening with 20 kids in the crowd. One of the coolest things I’d felt a part of. What started as a bunch of dweebs on an online forum turned into meeting people all over the world, sharing stories,
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John Legend playing on a grand piano after flooding waters flowed over the stairs. From the top, 10,000 people away, to the tunnel up to the soundboard, there’s truly no words to describe. Over the course of seventeen years, faces change, people come and go, life tolls forward.
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or maybe it’s just the lack of oxygen from the jaunt up the stairs… I think of gigs standing in the snow or rain, and how you’d think instinctively it’d make a show worse. I’d argue it only adds to the charm.
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I think of how many bootlegs & videos I grew up watching of what seemed like an unreal place. Then, you’re there. Nine Inch Nails making it sound too small to handle their rig. Each time walking down into the bowl is emotional –
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the stories of all the acts that have come before, the sense of something much bigger than you. I think of all the legendary acts that have made the Rocks shake. Imagine seeing Jimi Hendrix in 1968 blowing up an amp on stage. Or one of the Beatles’ only tours in the U.S.
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Morrison, Colorado. The legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre. A milestone of the New Deal -- built by young folk in the Civilian Conservation Corps. Approaching the park, you can feel an energy that’s hard to put a finger on. The reverberation of the rocks,
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year old backstage where they truly went above and beyond to bring out ramps and make accommodations for my wheelchair, into rooms where there may not have been a wheelchair on the carpeting in the near-century before, as though it was just another day in the grandest theater in
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the theater, we couldn’t help but be just as dazzled by the space itself. Such attention to detail, down to every screw head and doorknob and fixture. What truly stuck with me were the people in charge of running the room so wonderfully. For my own perspective, being in a 90
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We even got to play there once before, back in January of 2018. We were so incredibly touched to be among the artists picked by MusiCares to honor Fleetwood Mac. As dumbstruck we were by all the incredible star power wandering around the great sweeping corridors around and under
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The Grammy’s, the Tony awards, The Grateful Dead, Liberace’s last show, The Rockettes, and countless other icons and dazzling productions have all been on that big stage, in front of that grand, glowing red and amber proscenium.
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Radio City Music Hall. The Showplace of the nation. Rockefeller build a lot of cool things, but thanks to 15,000 miles of copper wire and 200 miles of brass pipe, we got this gem of an art deco icon in the heart of New York City.
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