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The Orange Peel is a great club, in a cool, artsy town in the Blue Ridge Mountains. 🙂
Great club -Lu had a great show here in ’08. It was the first show of that leg and the economy had just crashed. I think the crowd that night was ready to let off some steam.
@TOverby wrote:
Great club -Lu had a great show here in ’08. It was the first show of that leg and the economy had just great. I think the crowd that night was ready to let off some steam.
Lu and Tom know how to pick the great venues.
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The Orange Peel in Rolling Stone’s Top 5
by Brian Postelle on 04/15/2008
The media office of Rolling Stone Magazine has confirmed that Asheville’s own Orange Peel has been named one of the top five rock clubs in America.
The magazine’s Best of Rock Issue hits the stands on Friday, and lists the Peel alongside New York CIty’s Bowery Ballroom, Detroit’s The Magic Stick, Austin’s Stubb’s Bar-B-Q and Norfolk’s The Norva.
The write-up reads:
“In the Seventies, the Orange Peel was a premier funk-and-soul club. Since it reopened five years ago, Bob Dylan and Smashing Pumpkins (who picked the spot for their nine-show reunion run last year) have gone out of the way to play the Peel — drawn by Asheville’s bohemian vibe and attentive crowds.”
— Brian Postelle, staff writer
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Love their “official” name[attachment=0:pmv5glqe]Orange_Peel.jpg[/attachment:pmv5glqe]
And another of the top 5 in May for Lu. Stubb’s
fyi-The Orange Peel is standing room only.
lwjThat was indeed a great show in ’08! I remember there was some disruption in getting gasoline to that part of the country. A lot of gas stations had completely run out, and the ones that were open had looooonngg lines with gas rationed and priced close to $5/gallon. Yikes!
Those were also the shows where we got to hear “For What It’s Worth” performed. 😀
Also, there was a show in Charleston a couple nights later, and my seat was way in the back. I stopped at the box office on the way in to the show to see if anything closer had opened up, with the intention of buying the good ticket and giving away my lesser ticket. I asked the lady at the counter if she had any close-up seats available and she pointed to a ticket in front of me – front row that a couple had just left behind for her to give away. Talk about magic and good karma! So I left my lesser ticket behind in hopes that someone else could put it to good use. Of course, I ended up sitting next to the angel folks who gave me my front row seat, and cheerfully bought them some beers. Lu draws in the nicest people! 🙂
@West Words wrote:
Also, there was a show in Charleston a couple nights later, and my seat was way in the back. I stopped at the box office on the way in to the show to see if anything closer had opened up, with the intention of buying the good ticket and giving away my lesser ticket. I asked the lady at the counter if she had any close-up seats available and she pointed to a ticket in front of me – front row that a couple had just left behind for her to give away. Talk about magic and good karma! So I left my lesser ticket behind in hopes that someone else could put it to good use. Of course, I ended up sitting next to the angel folks who gave me my front row seat, and cheerfully bought them some beers. Lu draws in the nicest people! 🙂Great story, WW!
Tom
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