OT: Chattanooga
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Can't help much other than to say I love that place.
I never did any of the touristy things up there but I have been many, many times. My late wife's family was from there and we would go up every chance we got.
I just love the terrain and area. I have ridden motorcycles, horses, played golf, eaten at great places, visited relatives in all kinds of remote areas on top of those mtns. It's just a great place. Enjoy your visit, I know I did.
I never did any of the touristy things up there but I have been many, many times. My late wife's family was from there and we would go up every chance we got.
I just love the terrain and area. I have ridden motorcycles, horses, played golf, eaten at great places, visited relatives in all kinds of remote areas on top of those mtns. It's just a great place. Enjoy your visit, I know I did.
A friend of mine who lives in Chattanooga recommended Brewhaus to me. It’s on my to-do list next time I head north or east (or even northeast) and want to do a side trip and a concert there interests me...
Tangential note... Semi-Musing on Music Hijack...
I love to pair concerts with trips.
I’d mentioned that Sturgill Simpson’s show in Chattanooga was a side trip while heading to Augusta, GA (originally I was planning on going to Macon, GA to see Merle Haggard and Jason Isbell but Merle got sick and died. I still thought about seeing Jason Isbell with Tommy Emmanuel but I’d seen Jason a few times and Chattanooga was my first time to see Sturgill (I missed his Jackson show - huge huge regret)).
Other trip/concert pairings -
I love The Pageant in St. Louis. I saw St. Vincent there a couple months ago and she kicked butt. Glen Hansard is freaking awesome too— I saw him almost exactly two years previously there (both shows were on the Monday before Thanksgiving). Del McCoury and Dave Grisman at the Ryman were awesome a year and a half ago. Great guest performers with them including Vince Gill. The Chieftains at The Schmerhorn (also in Nashville) were also memorable...
Flying to Ireland for a week and seeing Christy Moore play a gig in a small town by a Lough that eventually leads to the Atlantic Ocean... He is a true legend... essentially the Bob Dylan of Ireland— at least that’s what Will Kimbrough told me once. A few days later - the night before I returned to the US - Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop with Erika Wennerstrom of Heartless Bastards opening for them... only a ten minute walk from where I was staying in Dublin so no big deal.
One side trip where journeying was a bit more of a big deal was seeing Bootsy Collins at The Fillmore and the two Fare Thee Well Santa Clara shows on consecutive nights while attending a conference— I slept maybe ten hours that weekend (round trip travel between San Francisco and Santa Clara by train and light rail was pretty brutal and I did that twice) but did all the conference stuff I needed to do and got to experience fabulous music...
I love music.
Tangential note... Semi-Musing on Music Hijack...
I love to pair concerts with trips.
I’d mentioned that Sturgill Simpson’s show in Chattanooga was a side trip while heading to Augusta, GA (originally I was planning on going to Macon, GA to see Merle Haggard and Jason Isbell but Merle got sick and died. I still thought about seeing Jason Isbell with Tommy Emmanuel but I’d seen Jason a few times and Chattanooga was my first time to see Sturgill (I missed his Jackson show - huge huge regret)).
Other trip/concert pairings -
I love The Pageant in St. Louis. I saw St. Vincent there a couple months ago and she kicked butt. Glen Hansard is freaking awesome too— I saw him almost exactly two years previously there (both shows were on the Monday before Thanksgiving). Del McCoury and Dave Grisman at the Ryman were awesome a year and a half ago. Great guest performers with them including Vince Gill. The Chieftains at The Schmerhorn (also in Nashville) were also memorable...
Flying to Ireland for a week and seeing Christy Moore play a gig in a small town by a Lough that eventually leads to the Atlantic Ocean... He is a true legend... essentially the Bob Dylan of Ireland— at least that’s what Will Kimbrough told me once. A few days later - the night before I returned to the US - Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop with Erika Wennerstrom of Heartless Bastards opening for them... only a ten minute walk from where I was staying in Dublin so no big deal.
One side trip where journeying was a bit more of a big deal was seeing Bootsy Collins at The Fillmore and the two Fare Thee Well Santa Clara shows on consecutive nights while attending a conference— I slept maybe ten hours that weekend (round trip travel between San Francisco and Santa Clara by train and light rail was pretty brutal and I did that twice) but did all the conference stuff I needed to do and got to experience fabulous music...
I love music.
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I got **** on in here for telling people how awesome Rock City is during the holiday season. That really is the only time you need to go. I can take or leave the caves but the aquarium is legit. The have a solarium on the top level of one of the aquarium buildings where they maintain an Amazon Rainforest canopy with lemurs everywhere. And one floor down is the main draw, the penguin exhibit. They are truly some nasty 17’ers but the wife and kids nearly Piss themselves with excitement to watch them. They also have a huge collection of jelly fish housed in an area that is blacked-out with onlyfocused lighting in the room that shines on their tanks. You want a truly out of the world experience. Sit in that room alone and wAtch them. If anyone has ever been abducted by aliens I would imagine their experience was similar to watching those jelly fish until the little Martian ***** show up with the butt probe.