Verdict: Nashville Show 4/9 – What was that shit?

[Slope1988]

Also people who are like predators like to target someone who is drinking sometimes too esp. if that person appears to be drunk or the slightest bit slow. Not to preach or anything, but that is the reality of it. Some people hold their liquor better than others.

[BetteDavisLies]

I am still shocked that this happened at the Nashville show. It just didn’t seem like that type of environment. The most hostility I encountered was from the ticket lady who made me get in the other line just so she would not have to reach over 6 inches to get to the ticket list..

Maybe if Dinosaur were to do a show in Cuba we might have to watch our backs, but Nashville is a normally very dull, very passive, very country and western tip-your-hat sort of town.

[Annastefka]

"BetteDavisLies " wrote:

Yeah.. Almost like a freakin immaculate conception or something..

Wow, I missed this topic, but thought I should chime in and let it be stated for the record, as much of a Catholic as I am and as much of a J mascis fan am I, I’m sorry to say this baby was no immaculate conception, he was brought about in the ordinary fashion, but was helped along by J Mascis. My husband picked the other children up and dropped them off at a friends house where they were to spend the night. He took me out for a wonderful dinner at East/West Bistro. Then took me out for a few drinks. We saw J play, and met many friends downtown. Then he drove me home and made a wonderful late,late night snack/breakfast. When we finally settled down into bed, I was so tired that I said "I love you, goodnight"
and turned my back towards him. Well…………….He started with the ummmmm thing, while playing with my butt
and rather than saying "honey, it’s four in the morning,lets wait until tomorrow"…..I gave in…..simple.
While the conception wasn’t immaculate, they baby at birth was!

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Maybe if Dinosaur were to do a show in Cuba we might have to watch our backs, but Nashville is a normally very dull, very passive, very country and western tip-your-hat sort of town.

Funny, but Cuba actually has a higher literacy rate and a much lower crime rate than any city in the US.
Also, strange but I have had two very scary episodes while going out on the town in Nashville, in different years, I think it’s the "very dull, very passive" mixed in with alcohol, loud music and pretty woman, it makes some men crazy…………..only a guess.

Thought I would modify and say, Tennesee is one of our favorite states all the same, the people, the country side seem almost unpolluted by what passes as mainstream America, I’m sure some of that is changing, but just like almost everybody up North has a friend in Vermont, who’s living well "off the grid"
in the South many of us have a friend in Tennesee doing just the same……………some days I want to join ummmm.

[BetteDavisLies]

Nashville is definetly not without its faults. However, it is nowhere near as dangerous as Memphis where we were voted by Self magazine as the "Most dangerous city for women" because of the violent crime rate. Memphis is also on many top ten lists of most dangerous cities, along with Atlanta, L.A., Detroit, etc. It is unfortunate, but I love this city!

(I actually live in a much smaller town outside of Memphis where there is little crime to speak of, but Memphis is my home away from home)

In comparison, Nashville is relatively mild.

I have lived in the South my entire life and it has its merits. My dream place to live would be MA or upstate NY because we visited there last summer and I fell in love. (It was nice not being a liberal lost in a sea of red conservative values for once!)

I would not know about Cuba’s literacy rate. I can’t go there. If only I were Canadian!

[tonas]

I have In laws in upstae New York (Oneida, Buffalo) and I agree its totally rad. I would move to one of those small towns in a heartbeat.

[BetteDavisLies]

I am sure Seattle is not too shabby..

I almost got eaten by a Bear in the Adirondacks and I still want to move there.

[tonas]

The adirondacks aren’t in Seattle; you mean New York?

Yeah Seattle is sweet. Whenever I travel I usually get homesick, I love it here. The mountains, Puget Sound, and the greenery is great. Its true though if you decide to visit only come between July and early September, thats when its sunny and beautiful. Its either grey or raining the rest of the time.

[BetteDavisLies]

Sorry for the mixed thoughts – I was first referring to your town and then talking about the upstate NY that I love so much, mtns. etc

I’m not sure I could take the rain. It really gets me down.

[tonas]

Its not as bad as you might think. You get used to it. Its probably why there are so many musicians around here. When it rains people just stay inside and rock out.

Its the days of rainy weather really. I believe other cities like Boston get more measurable rainfall. Its just really drizzley here. Oh well it keeps the scenery green, which is much better than brown and dead, or concrete for that matter.

[Annastefka]

"BetteDavisLies " wrote:

However, it is nowhere near as dangerous as Memphis where we were voted by Self magazine as the "Most dangerous city for women" because of the violent crime rate.

I was speaking w/my sis today and telling her about this post. I asked her about that crazy time in Nashville for my Cousins wedding. It was insane! After his rehersal dinner (at which we all drank more beer than should have been allowed) We (the cousins) took my little cousin out on the town drinking whiskey galore.
We ended up dodging fights and bullets and policemen and pursesnatchers etc….we also all ended up so drunk that none of us could speak. I was the only one who made it back to the hotel. My sister said to me today "YOU IDIOT, that wasn’t in Nashville, Justin married a girl from Memphis, WE were in Memphis" Wow, you are right about Memphis, I had a crazy night in Nashville once but an even crazier one in Memphis.

"BetteDavisLies " wrote:

I’m not sure I could take the rain. It really gets me down

I went to college in upstate NY, think rain, frozen rain, real frozen, to the point of snow. I liked it the first year. After several years I was glad to never see another bag of rock salt again. All of those states are very nice in the summer however, perhaps you need a summer house and a winter house.

[BetteDavisLies]

Hehe.. The idea of me having a summer and winter home is so hilarious! I can’t even take care of the house I have now. I’m so not domesticated!

Southerners have a whole different concept of snowy weather. Just a few flakes and school is out for the week! We panic.

That is really hilarious about the whole Memphis/Nashville thing. You see what I mean? Memphis is like an apocalyptic world.

After the dinosaur show on the 10th of this month, my husband and I went to an IHOP down the road from the venue to try to sober up before we made the drive home to Jackson, TN. As we walked in, a guy outside asked us for some change, which is not uncommon. We were then sitting inside rehashing the night and all of a sudden this guy who had been sitting by the emergency exit busted through the door after consuming two rooty tooty fresh and fruities. The manager shouted and ran after him since the bill was left behind unpaid. When we walked out the doorto leave, we were stopped by another bum who asked us for money like the first guy. When the first guy saw this, he got mad at the second bum and they started fighting over who had the rights to our hand-out. A brawl broke-out and we left just in time. Ahhh.. this is the Memphis of my heart!

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