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March 9, 2004

You Can’t Have Me

So Big Star is coming to South by Southwest. I’m sure none of the locals who actually give a shit about seeing them will be able to get in either, just like always. The place’ll be packed with badge-toting, cell phone-yakking industry types who couldn’t care less (A few years back some friends and I were lucky enough to get let into Emo’s for the Locust’s show, which was packed. As I wandered around the floor, trying to get nearer the front and the onslaught of grinding noise, I actually jostled a few of the aforementioned motherfuckers, talking into their damn phones in the middle of the floor. At a Locust show!)

I can at least take comfort that I got to see Big Star in Columbia at Springpeace, where my friend Amy endeared herself to my heart forever when, looking around at the (I thought) legendary band loading in, she screwed up her little Chicagoan’s face and asked, “Who’s the damn hippie band?”

For the record (ahem) they called it Missouri University, but it’s the University of Missouri at Columbia, not that these things matter to me.

Posted by pogo at March 9, 2004 7:28 AM

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I think we’ll be right at home during SXSW. Listen to what Phil Graham, a senior VP at BMI, had to say about it: “It’s an opportunity to see a lot of people in what can be described as a very social atmosphere but still a very business-like atmosphere.” (http://www.sxsw.com/music/)

And with music passes ranging from $525 to $775, options are available for even the smallest of budgets: https://secure.sxsw.com/forms/registration/start.php?

What are we waiting for?

Posted by: jacob on March 9, 2004 11:01 AM

you saw big star in columbia?

::sentry bows worshipfully::

Posted by: sentry on March 9, 2004 12:19 PM

i didn’t know you liked big star, mike!

Posted by: chris on March 9, 2004 8:54 PM

I am once again a local after over 3 years of hibernation in the hinterlands of the northeast. With the help of some old friends (I didn’t even have a wristband) I managed to get past the SXSW bar code scanners and into Big Star for free. It was all worth it just to hear Alex Chilton say he was our “humble servant”. There is still some justice left in the world.

Posted by: Gladys on March 31, 2004 12:52 AM