Celebrating 13 years of podcasting with part 1 of my conversation with guest Gary Barth as we discuss the concertgoing experience...while we drive to a concert.

Show notes:

• Recorded in Gary's car on the way to the show

• Driving to an Iron Maiden concert at the Xfinity Center in Mansfield, MA

• Gary's first concert: Huey Lewis and the News in 1985

• Huey's got rock cred

• All the big shows back in the '80s were at hockey rinks

• Many bands now play smaller theaters and clubs

• Jay: Used to go see arena shows only back then

• Arenas in Worcester, Portland, Providence

• Shows were cheaper back then, but we had less money

• People would get really wasted before concerts

• The guy who sat behind us and still missed the entire Maiden show

• Getting rides to concerts from parents

• Gary plays in a Grateful Dead cover band, Deadbeat

• Listening to some "nice hahd rawk"

• Jay's (very) short-lived high school band

• Jay: Liked a lot of metal and hard rock in high school, turned away from it in the '90s

• We both started listening to Maiden again in 2006

• Bands don't make money from selling albums anymore

• Saw Drive-By Truckers at the local theater in Beverly

• Go see Deadbeat at the Bull Run in Shirley, MA on 8/9

• Cover bands are doing pretty well these days

• Heavy Metal Cul de Sac

• Bands keep touring into their old age

• The Iron Maiden guys are all in their 60s but put on a high-energy show

• To be continued

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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.