Cool, man
: Michael Tchong’s Trendsetters.com newsletter reports:
At a May 29 Toronto concert, Blink 182 asked attendees to pull out their lighters. When few people heeded the call, the lead singer announced,
2 responses to “Cool, man”
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oh lord, this was a Doonesbury cartoon years ago, when aging yuppies had given up smoking…
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History break: fwiw, the original fire thing at Woodstock was with matches. I wrote about it in 1989:
From the stage, announcer John Morris asked us each to light a match, just so we could see how many of us there were. At first, the response was slow but then little lights appeared, far, far away, and we began to get the idea. The cynicism faded. …All along the hillside and into the woods as far as you could see were tiny fires.
… Melanie was on stage next, and and all this incendiary business went on during her set. She later wrote a song about Woodstock called Candles in the Rain, and audiences lit matches whenever she sang it. Now, flicking one’s Bic is a polite way to request an encore.
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