About

I've been living in the Madison area since 1998. Going to concerts since 1990 and, apparently, documenting them since I figured out I could build a website about it.

When I'm not at a show I'm usually out for a top-down drive, taking the long way somewhere. Road trips, travel photography, vinyl.

The 1990s are the decade I most closely identify with musically — high school and college in La Crosse, a CD collection that topped a thousand, meeting my wife. Somehow that didn't translate into many actual shows. Small town, no real internet, what I'd generously call general laziness. The concerts I missed during peak grunge and alternative still haunt me a little.

Then 2004 to 2014 happened — what I now call the deaf years. Three kids, a decade of work and family. Around 2014 my wife and I made a point of going to more shows and we've been making up for lost time ever since. Her standard joke is that she usually doesn't know who the band is.

This catalog started as a way to keep track before the details faded completely. The oldest ticket stub I have is Lenny Kravitz, 1996. The newer ones live in a Gmail label. Some shows had to be reconstructed from cobwebs.