{"id":2459,"date":"2012-10-15T08:15:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T12:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2012-10-15T08:15:11","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T12:15:11","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-303-roach-days-revisited-the-joshua-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/10\/15\/my-musical-evolution-part-303-roach-days-revisited-the-joshua-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 303 Roach Days Revisited The Joshua Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"U2<\/a>U2 was coming to Indiana. They were scheduled to play at\u00a0The Hoosier\u00a0Dome in November of 1987.\u00a0 Tickets went on sale months in advance.\u00a0 Their new album The Joshua Tree\u00a0 <\/em>was amazing and vaulted U2 into phenomenon status. Keith and I decided to camp out at Karma<\/em> records were the tickets were going to to be sold.\u00a0 Karma records used to be on North Anthony near Zollner\u00a0Stadium.<\/p>\n

There were already quite few people there by the time we arrived. The way that Karma managed it was really client friendly I thought.\u00a0We wer each assigned a number which was written on the backs of our hands. We didn’t have to stand in a line, we could do what ever we wanted but when they called a check in, we had to line\u00a0up in order and verify that we were indeed there. If you missed check-in, you were out and had to go to the back and get reassigned.<\/p>\n

Normally, North Anthony is a high traffic area but at 3 in the morning, we played a game of kickball in the street. It was fun, maybe not\u00a0as fun as holding Lisa while wrapped in a blanket like I did for Van Halen three years prior. It seemed like such a long time ago and so much had happened since then.<\/p>\n

After 12 or 14 hours in line, the tickets went on sale and I bought 6. I figured that the demand for U2 tickets would make this a good investment.\u00a0 Keith asked me what I was going to do with my 6 tickets. I told him that I would sell 4 of them and keep to for myself. Then he asked me who I was going to bring to the show. I was kind of thinking that I might bring this girl I knew that worked at Pier One Imports but I wasn’t sure so\u00a0I said “The woman that will change my life.” That is an exact quote.\u00a0 It seems story bookish and maybe it is.<\/p>\n

Where The Streets Have No Name<\/em>
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