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I miss live music, so recently I’ve been rediscovering a few of my favourite live recordings and imagining myself going to concerts from the comfort of my couch. If I must find the proverbial glass-half-full then I suppose it would be the convenience and solace of watching a concert in my living room without plodding through slushy February streets, along with the simplicity of grabbing a beverage from my fridge and the lack of lineups at the washrooms.
That said, there is a magic to live performance that more than makes up for the inconveniences. After nearly a year without live shows, I would be delighted to hear the Skydiggers or Rheostatics at the Horseshoe, my feet sticking to the spilled-beer floors and the stink of decades of smoke saturating the walls. I miss the feeling of a kick-drum pounding through speakers like a punch to the gut, the energy of like-minded music lovers gathered together and the spontaneous joy of a band following their muse.
Top 10 Famous People that Nobody Can Identify
When one changes the world, they can at least expect to be remembered. History is littered with people who stumbled into achievements. Only a select elite get their name jotted down in the textbooks. For a distinct few, their achievement gets recorded, while their name fades into obscurity. Everyone knows the following 10 iconic cultural and historical moments, but nobody knows who is responsible for them.
10 The Youngest Olympian It must stink when a total stranger can do your job better than you can, especially when you are supposed be the best in the world. As standard bearers for the peak of human physique, it was surely a blow when Dr. Hermanus Brockmann was deemed too fat to participate in the Olympics. Along with rowers Francois Brandt and Roelof Klein, Brockmann was the Dutch rowing team’s coxswain. His team members decided that Brockmann’s excessive weight would slow down the crew. To shave precious seconds off their time