The idea that they’ve sired something magically, musically alt-original sends Brian Venable’s eyes rolling.
The idea that they’ve sired something magically, musically alt-original sends Brian Venable’s eyes rolling.
Auburn’s almost-famous rock’n’roll luminary stared straight ahead, smiled, then nodded. “Yes, the stories are true.”
Per the ‘77 Glom, only 1,500 students bought one of the 4,700 tickets put on sale for what turned out to be a non-stop 2 and a half hour Young Springsteen rockgasm at Beard-Eaves.
People talk of the orange’n’blue haze, the claustrophobic Tiger Walk, the never-before-or-since ‘lectricity.
But when trying to gauge just how big Alabama’s first trip to Jordan-Hare was, consider the 3 minutes and 33 seconds of “Our House,” track 13 from 1989’s all-but-extinct “Auburn Blue” album: the first time Auburn Spirit was ever set to rap.*
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