Thanks for this. I grew up in Rochester and am now at Syracuse for my master's, too, but I was in college in '08 when The Rhumb Line came out. That next spring, Ra Ra Riot came and played at my tiny college just a few days after a friend of mine had died in a really tragic accident. They opened with this song and I…

Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever was effectively Wilburys Vol. 2 because Jeff Lynne produced it and played it on. Plus, Orbison sang backup on one of the songs, AND George Harrison played acoustic guitar and sang on "I Won't Back Down" and oh my god how did I not know this before today?

The memory of traffic getting out of that parking lot — which wasn't even a parking lot but an empty farm field — is enough to make my physically hurt.

I grew up in Western New York (state) going to DMB shows every summer. Outdoor shows. Shows where people guzzle Jack Daniels from the bottle at 1 p.m., then pass out at 5 and sleep in their cars so they miss the entire show. The band is less of a band now and more of an abstract idea of college, or youth, or partying,…