Concert Review: Wally Pleasant @ Founders Hall, BGSU, Bowling Green, Ohio (Fall 1994)

I have evidence I went to this show, as you can see there is an autographed Wally Pleasant ‘Houses of the Holy Moly’ cd, even if I can't remember when it happened.

My best guess is sometime in 1994 or 1995, as I was living in Founders Hall at the time, and the concert took place in the expansion area of the cafeteria, the same place I would play two rock shows, one with 10Watt my final year of college in 1998, and a year later with The Stepford Five, our first show ever.

Apparently, Wally is still doing his thing has he’s got a website with current tour dates and lots of albums I never heard. I went back and listened to this album not too long ago, and I’m not going to claim it still holds up, but there were some enjoyable moments in the vein of They Might Be Giants or Ween, two bands I do no claim to be a fan of. Yet, certain tracks still charm me.

I’m fairly certain our radio station, WFAL, had a hand in bringing Wally to BGSU, which is probably why I was even at the concert and ended up buying a cd. Maybe we’ll have him on Dig Me Out someday.

(Update: After some back and forth with Wally himself and some fans on Facebook in 2017, we narrowed it down to Fall of 1994, so while not the exact date, almost there)

Concert Review: Universal Honey @ Downtown Buffalo, NY (12/31/94)

For those not familiar, Universal Honey was the Canada answer to Letters to Cleo. Got it? Okay, good. We have to go back to college (again) to frame this one.

During my sophomore year of college in a math class I met a girl named Kathy, who it turned out was from my hometown of Buffalo, N.Y., and in fact lived not far from where my parents and I had once lived. Double in fact, my parents would soon move back there. So, while on winter break for ’94, I headed to downtown Buffalo with Kathy and her friends for the New Year’s Eve bash.

Truth be told, this involved a lot of walking and not much else. We walked from locale to locale, taking in things that I have no recollection of, and eventually ended up at an indoor arena that had bands. It was here Universal Honey were playing, and I ended up scoring a free cd.

When I got back to college after the break, I made sure to play the single, “Just Before Mary Goes” to support this new discovery. That reminds me, I need to dig out Universal Honey, as I have only a slight recollection of, 18 years later, what the band sounds like.