Whitby Free Press, WednesdaY. July 18, 1994, Page 7 F tte oncert. Today, dear readers, something new. Cali it Billy goes to His First Rock Concert. This is akin to Bambi Meets Jurassie Park nr Heidi Marries Godzila. My musical tastes have, shall we say, safely E avoided what started as a counter-culture and became .-.fI .7 the mainstream. It took me years to discover that a certain- person-in-my-life-whom-I've-promied-fl-ever-men- ~-- tion-in-print does not exactly share my tastes. One day 1 realized that her love of musical classics veered t. less toward Mozart and more toward the Everly Brothers or CGR. You. know: Classic Rock._______________________________________ So a few days back 1 learned there was this band called The Eagles, and they played tunes some of which even I recognize because you can run but you can't escape. And they were to play at Exhibition Stadium. Could we get tickets? We could. So Monday night I learned about rock concerts: Field seats sound good. But 399 feet from the stage you miss subtleties. (Sharing an experience with 60,000 people in a bail park is not about subtlety anyway. Getting there early, thanks to GO Transit, was a good idea. Ydu get frisked, and then sit on tethered folding chairs for ninety minutes, boping those sea gulîs up there behave. Put sixty thousand plus people in a hall park with nothing te do for two hours and tbey wil play with beach balîs and work on generatingl'The Wave.' When The Eagles corne on (at 9:37 for an eigbt o'clock concert) they are this big on that stage. Some people around us had sobered up. We can see the lights, but detecting motion strains the eyes. For- tunately, a gant video screen has been erected on each side of the stage; For seventy-one dollars a seat this will be akin to sitting on your patio te watch a WILLIAM JAMES LUKE'S BICYCLE REPAIR SIIOF, C. 1905 large TV screen two doors down. Oh, well. This building stood at the corner of Dundas and Centre Streets where the Kentucky Picture this: until The" Eagles were through their FedCiensoesnw. It was demlished in 1915 and replaced with a brick garage, first number, the row ahead of us was empty. I joked . also operated by W.J. Luke, where he sold the first Ford automobiles in Whitby. with the gay beside me that the whole row was Whntby Archives photo reserved for fourteen guys trying out for the Toronto Raptrs. ou now:sixfodf otsvn witih Ran attitulde.10 YEARS AGO The last laser iight dims, the credits roil, we file12 ER G out to Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho, Itfs Off te Work We Go. from the Tusa , July8, 1869 edition of the Cute, eh? it's Monday and itfs quarter te one and ;MITY CHRONICLE people gotta get outta here yet and go to work in the* Chester Draper, owner of Whitby Harbour, has rebuilt the piers and enlarged the morning. facilities for piling lumber. Twothigs tic inmy ind on, toseguy * A fire des troyed John Dundas' store on Dundas Street. Loss was $150. Two hins stck n mymmd one thse gys p * The steamer Norseman took many Whitby residents across Lake Ontario te attend there aren't kids, for cryin' out loud. They're my age. the American July 4 celebrations.* and two, bey, not bad, not bad. When they get* Hugh James Macdonell has been. appointed town solicitor at $50 a year, paid togetber again fourteen years from now I might corne quarterly. back te see how they've meliowed.______________________________________