Posted on 8/1/2011
Written by Mike Arnold
My wife Sandra and I were married in 1979 and lived in Madison, TN, a suburb of Nashville. In those days cable television weren’t available in our area, although if it were, we couldn’t afford it anyway. Heck, we didn’t even have a telephone during most of the first year of our marriage and we definitely didn’t go out to eat. There were times we would save up $15 or $20 to go to a concert (yes that was the price for two tickets in those days). Our entertainment mainly consisted of walking to the little league baseball field behind our apartment to watch the kids play (and the parents scream!) or visit friends to play board games and play music. TV really wasn’t our main source of entertainment and you could tell it by the 13 inch black and white television we owned.
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Posted 2/18/2011
Written by Mike Arnold
While the concert-touring season has slowed down for the winter, I thought it would be nice to show our listening audiences what we went through in 2010. I created multiple videos of our experiences with a month by month journey of our adventures.
Here’s Part 6, the final chapter of our 2010 Concert Blast Posts. This video takes you through our experiences of October through December.
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Jason and the Scorchers In Concert
It was Friday, October 8th 2010 when Jason and the Scorchers made their long awaited return to Nashville, TN to play The Mercy Lounge. Before the band’s sound check, Mike, Brian, and James met with Jason Ringenberg and Warner Hodges for a short interview as they traveled down memory lane.
The show started about 9:40pm with Brian on one side of the stage, James on the other side of the stage and Mike in the middle. Brian and James had their cameras ready while Mike was ready with his mic to record any special live audio clips for the podcast (and there were several).
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Jason and the Scorchers - The Mercy Lounge - Nashville, TN
On Friday, October 8th 2010, Mike Arnold, Brian Hasbrook, and James Downing met with Jason Ringenberg and Warner Hodges of Jason and the Scorchers for a quick interview and reviewed their concert at the Mercy Lounge in Nashville, TN.
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