Do You Remember When We Used to Sing ... ?
The Portland Lobster Company had a band playing on the dockside patio, and the packed crowd was paying more attention to it than guys like this usually get. And the guy was pretty decent, even though the band was of that genre of local music I call the "Brown-eyed Girl Band." These are bands made up of middle-aged folk I've generally identified in the past as Boomers who can be counted on to play "Brown-eyed Girl" at least once during their set. But this particular "Brown-eyed Girl Band" brought me to a revelation as I listened to them do covers of '90s hits from bands like Matchbox 20 or Pearl Jam. Time has moved inexorably onward, and the Brown-eyed Girl Bands have transitioned from Boomers to Generation X. That guy's my age. Now WE'RE the Brown-eyed Girl Bands.
A Side Note: There have been two popular versions of "Brown-eyed Girl," and while I prefer the original by Van Morrison, when you're sitting on a dock with saltwater on the air, you're hearing the Jimmy Buffet version. Buffet was a Boomer who hit it big well before my time, but I feel like when it comes to dock music, he transcends generations. Honestly, I was never a big fan, because I don't like Florida, but Robin was. One of her formative memories involved a lot of underage drinking at a Cincinnati Jimmy Buffet concert in her high school years, and she was wearing a shirt from that concert the very first time I met her in August of 1991 on the campus of the University of Kentucky. As you probably heard, Jimmy Buffet died last Friday of cancer at the age of 76, and Robin spent much of the weekend humming "Son of a Sailor" to herself. I prefer "A Pirate Looks at Forty" as I sit here shooting past fifty.
Do You Remember When We Used to Sing ... ?
The Portland Lobster Company had a band playing on the dockside patio, and the packed crowd was paying more attention to it than guys like this usually get. And the guy was pretty decent, even though the band was of that genre of local music I call the "Brown-eyed Girl Band." These are bands made up of middle-aged folk I've generally identified in the past as Boomers who can be counted on to play "Brown-eyed Girl" at least once during their set. But this particular "Brown-eyed Girl Band" brought me to a revelation as I listened to them do covers of '90s hits from bands like Matchbox 20 or Pearl Jam. Time has moved inexorably onward, and the Brown-eyed Girl Bands have transitioned from Boomers to Generation X. That guy's my age. Now WE'RE the Brown-eyed Girl Bands.
A Side Note: There have been two popular versions of "Brown-eyed Girl," and while I prefer the original by Van Morrison, when you're sitting on a dock with saltwater on the air, you're hearing the Jimmy Buffet version. Buffet was a Boomer who hit it big well before my time, but I feel like when it comes to dock music, he transcends generations. Honestly, I was never a big fan, because I don't like Florida, but Robin was. One of her formative memories involved a lot of underage drinking at a Cincinnati Jimmy Buffet concert in her high school years, and she was wearing a shirt from that concert the very first time I met her in August of 1991 on the campus of the University of Kentucky. As you probably heard, Jimmy Buffet died last Friday of cancer at the age of 76, and Robin spent much of the weekend humming "Son of a Sailor" to herself. I prefer "A Pirate Looks at Forty" as I sit here shooting past fifty.