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22 December 2023
In the winter of 1990 I had just turned 14 years old. I was dating a girl named Amy Gill at the time. I had just stolen her away from her other boyfriend, the quarterback for my high school’s football team. She was the first girl that ever let my little young hands wander down her pants. Needless to say, she was dope. Equally as dope was INXS. Yes, that INXS. What the fuck do you want? The '80s had just ended, for Christ’s sake!
So anyway, they toured around the country in support of their newest album at the time, X, and I took Amy Gill with me. At the concert, some pedophilic twenty-something kid started hitting on her.
“Want a beer?” he asked her.
“Sure,” she said.
He went and bought her and I a beer to share, and it was the first time beer ever passed through my lips. This time of my life was filled with firsts: my first concert without parents; my first taste of beer; and the first girl to ever let me touch her south of the border. Life was good.
INXS took the stage and pumped out radio-friendly hit after radio-friendly hit hit: “New Sensation”; “By My Side”; “Devil Inside”; “Mystify”. The Farris brothers and the late Michael Hutchence rocked out with their totally rad hair and striped pants. Yeah, we were just on the brink of war with Iraq (back when they actually were "evil"), but who gave a fuck when you could dance around to “Meditate”? All was well.
So, call me “nostalgic” or “old” or “gay”,.. whatever. I don’t care. I was happy when I got the new DVD Live Baby Live (Sanctuary Records) to review, because, although the concert documented in its entirety wasn’t the show I was at (but rather a show at Wembley Stadium in July of 1991), it was close enough to what I experienced live nearly 14 years ago.
This DVD features the entire concert-- all 21 songs of it. In addition to that, you get 40 minutes of behind-the-scenes footage, and commentary during the concert. It’s a cool little thing to have if you were into these Australian cats.
Looking back on it, the times were a bit scary. But hey, at least we survived the fucking '80s. Ah,.. Amy Gill. I wonder what she’s up to now. She’s probably a fat mess with five kids and two ex-husbands, living in a trailer park somewhere on welfare. But, man, she used to be a little cutie. Amy, if you happen across this article and aren’t any of the above things (or a man), you know what to do: wayne@tlchicken.com.
VISIT INXS.COM FOR MORE INFO, BABY, INFO.
PURCHASE THIS OR SIMILAR ITEMS
So anyway, they toured around the country in support of their newest album at the time, X, and I took Amy Gill with me. At the concert, some pedophilic twenty-something kid started hitting on her.
“Want a beer?” he asked her.
“Sure,” she said.
He went and bought her and I a beer to share, and it was the first time beer ever passed through my lips. This time of my life was filled with firsts: my first concert without parents; my first taste of beer; and the first girl to ever let me touch her south of the border. Life was good.
INXS took the stage and pumped out radio-friendly hit after radio-friendly hit hit: “New Sensation”; “By My Side”; “Devil Inside”; “Mystify”. The Farris brothers and the late Michael Hutchence rocked out with their totally rad hair and striped pants. Yeah, we were just on the brink of war with Iraq (back when they actually were "evil"), but who gave a fuck when you could dance around to “Meditate”? All was well.
So, call me “nostalgic” or “old” or “gay”,.. whatever. I don’t care. I was happy when I got the new DVD Live Baby Live (Sanctuary Records) to review, because, although the concert documented in its entirety wasn’t the show I was at (but rather a show at Wembley Stadium in July of 1991), it was close enough to what I experienced live nearly 14 years ago.
This DVD features the entire concert-- all 21 songs of it. In addition to that, you get 40 minutes of behind-the-scenes footage, and commentary during the concert. It’s a cool little thing to have if you were into these Australian cats.
Looking back on it, the times were a bit scary. But hey, at least we survived the fucking '80s. Ah,.. Amy Gill. I wonder what she’s up to now. She’s probably a fat mess with five kids and two ex-husbands, living in a trailer park somewhere on welfare. But, man, she used to be a little cutie. Amy, if you happen across this article and aren’t any of the above things (or a man), you know what to do: wayne@tlchicken.com.
VISIT INXS.COM FOR MORE INFO, BABY, INFO.
PURCHASE THIS OR SIMILAR ITEMS
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issue
vol 6 - issue 04 (dec 2003)
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entertainmental