The Pretenders: My City Was Gone, Live

[appalachiablue]

Released 1982. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_City_Was_Gone

[brewens]

1. The first time I heard that, I thought I was hearing the start of a new Stones song. A couple months

later, I was at the Learning to Crawl tour show. I love Crissy!

[appalachiablue]

2. Outstanding song, wish I had seen them in concert.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Same Here

My wife & I are both huge fans.
We came so close, too. We were in the running for the local opening act when they played Chicago in the 90s. (Don't recall the exact year.)
We didn't get it though.
Personally, I think our style was a better lead into both tour opening act & The Pretenders than the band that got chosen. They were VERY much like the opening act.
Water under the bridge, but we were "this close" to seeing them from backstage!

[appalachiablue]

4. Good on you, that's exciting. What your band's music style?

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Retired Band

We were soup to nuts, because it was a musicians band.
So, it was rock (covers & self-penned) but there was a unique "feel". We seldom played more than 5 of our own stuff in a night.
The drummer's playing swung a bit, and my training is in jazz piano. So, there was that jazziness to it. We covered songs but altered most of them to be us.
Never thought of it until you asked but, I would almost call it a neo progressive thing. But, no 15 minute songs. After all we were a club band.
Three & 4 part harmonies on 80-90% of the songs, almost none without at least one harmony.
Drums, bass, guitar, and me, 75% keyboards 25% guitar.
Big(!) PA, around 90 lights, spotlight, smoke machine, pyro, but we wore suits!
We played together from the end of 1986 to the fall of 2009. 80-90 gigs a year. And, we all had full time jobs!

[appalachiablue]

8. Tx great, if you have any videos or pix post them sometime.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Everything Is DVD

I don't have a way to digitize to MPEG.
I am working on recording a couple cover tunes on my own. I think I can run an audio cord to my tablet and make an MP3. When I do that, I'll post a link.

[appalachiablue]

10. Sounds good.

[regnaD kciN]

6. Meh. Chrissie Hynde is now full MAGA.

[Montauk6]

7. REALLY????!!!

So, the song as Rush’s theme ISN’T vintage irony???

[appalachiablue]

11. Chrissie Hynde 'exposed' and eh

https://www.laweekly.com/chrissie-hyndes-praise-for-limbaugh-puts-her-in-morrisseys-shitty-league/