Hey, everybody! Reader here.
Now, we all make mistakes from time to time.
Maybe you’re baking something and you add salt instead of sugar to the recipe.
A guy I used to work with once put the wrong fuel into the forklift.
One time, I put my shoes on in the dark, and didn’t realize until halfway through my shift, that I was wearing one black and one brown shoe.
But what about those big mistakes, like a doctor amputating the wrong leg, or a demolition company knocking down the wrong building.
Like a company in Sydney, Australia, that mistakenly demolishing the wrong house. A historical house.
Specifically the house that legendary AC-DC guitarists Angus and Malcolm Young grew up in .
Here’s an article from the NME, to provide a little more context.
Oops.
But that misadventure got me thinking about some of the famous (or infamous) Rock ‘n’ Roll sites that I’d like to see some day.
A couple of summers ago, the Rolling Stones’ travelling “Unzipped” exhibition made a stop in Winnipeg, and I made the trip to check it out.
As part of the show, they recreated the filthy, squalid Edith Grove flat that Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Brian Jones shared in London, in the early 60’s, when they were just starting out.
It had everything, right down to the overflowing ashtrays full of cigarette butts and empty bottles strewn about!
It was like a time machine back Swingin’ London in the 60s!
But there are definitely some other places I’d loved to have checked out.
Like the legendary CBGB’s in New York City’s East Village.
It features all kinds of music, but became known mainly for showcasing punk and new wave acts, including the Ramones, Blondie and Talking Heads. Even Madonna performed there when she was starting out.
Of course, a trip to Memphis, Tennessee would be amazing, to go and tour the home of the King. Elvis Presley’s Graceland.
It’s the home where the Elvis spent most of his adult life, where he and Priscilla raised Lisa Marie, and were he died at the age of 42, on August 16, 1977. One week after I was born.
And now, Elvis, his parents, Lisa Marie and her son, are all at rest on the Graceland grounds.
Man… what a tour is would be!
Another place I would love to see?
Well, if I ever make another trip to Minnesota, I will definitely make the trip to Chanhasset, just outside Minneapolis, to tour Paisley Park Studios. The sometimes-home and workplace of Prince.
And one more place on my music bucket list, would be the small house in Detroit that made one of the biggest impacts ever on popular music.
The original Motown studio, at 2648 West Grand Boulevard in the Motor City, came to be known as “Hitsville USA,” where Berry Gordy’s vision saw artists ranging from the Supremes, Temptations and Four Tops, to Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles create the “Sound of Young America.”
I would love to make my way down to the “Snake Pit,” recording studio, where those artists, and many more, backed by the Motown house band, known as the Funk Brothers, made music history.
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
I’d love to visit Abbey Road Studios in London, and use the famous crosswalk, the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake Iowa, where Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper played their final show, the Cavern Club in Liverpool, where the Beatles played many early gigs, and so many more.
As long as no one knocks them all down my mistake!
