DO YOU REMEMBER?
A Concert History of Minneapolis's First Avenue / 7th Street Entry 1979-2004
Happy Birthday, 1st Ave! Come see the the venue gigography book project I completed during the lock-up. What started as just me wanting to organize all my old memorabilia ballooned after getting in a battle over whether the Dead Kennedys ever played there (they didn't). Pretty shocked to discover that the history was never recorded, or is hopelessly distorted (no, the Huskers didn't always headline). I couldn't find ANY information on openers and festival line-ups on-line, so in true punk rock fashion, I did it myself. It goes from the post-disco years to the infamous 2004 closing.
A book about the live music that put Minneapolis on the map...no, not that guy, the actual bands that we loved. The ones that hit big and then fractured, like Hüsker Dü and The Replacements. The ones that were big but no one else knew it, like The Suburbs, and Babes In Toyland. The ones that should have hit big, like Gear Daddies and Arcwelder. The ones we liked and now pretend that we didn't, like Soul Asylum and Information Society. The ones we almost got into drunken fistfights with, like Dillinger Four and Lifter Puller. Everyone. It's a concise concert guide to the bands that played the Minneapolis First Avenue venue from 1979 to 2004.
Includes mainroom & 7th Street Entry shows, openers / tour support, canceled / moved /unplayed nights, poster artists, and local record stores played. 710 pages, 33 pages of never-before seen flyers and handbills.
