Karl Ward, Alum
Columbia College 2001
The first thing I heard when I stepped into my suite at Carman Hall was the album Stakes Is High by De La Soul. The last thing I heard at Columbia, leaving my suite in East Campus, was the album Chopper City in the Ghetto by BG. Somewhere in between, I went to see:
- Wyclef Jean at Hammerstein, with my whole Carman suite
- The Cure on Halloween 1997 at Irving Plaza
- Morrissey at Roseland
- The Beastie Boys in 1998 at Madison Square Garden (MCA got booed for protesting that day's bombing campaign in Iraq)
- live drum and bass at CBGB at 3AM on a weeknight
- live samba music at Sounds of Brazil
- the Freight Elevator Quartet, everywhere they played
- Outkast, before they went pop, on the Steps and at S.O.B.
- Sonic Youth on the Steps in the rain
- The Rite of Spring and Symphonie Fantastique at Carnegie Hall
- Cibo Matto, Sean Lennon, and Petra Haden at Bowery Ballroom
- Stereolab at Battery Park (rest in peace, Mary Hansen)
- Sebadoh at Irving Plaza
- De La Soul and Mos Def at Miller Theatre
- The Willie Nelson Fourth Of July Picnic in Luckenbach, Texas
I guess that last one might not really count. I think it does though.
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