The Best Concert Ever, Part 1
Jan. 25th, 2008 03:57 am
This past Friday night, I breathlessly attended the Information Society concert at Elysium. I've been an InSoc fan since their first Tommy Boy album in my pseudo-hacker 80's youth. The five concerts I've been to span over fifteen years, two during the Hack tour, two during Peace and Love, Inc., and this final one for their new album, Synthesizer. In high school I hung out extensively with Aaron Price, aka Boomer, the SysOp of the Yellow Submarine BBS, and, at the time, InSoc's biggest living fan.
My musical tastes have broadened since those halcyon days of youth, but I can still honestly claim that there's no other band I identify with more closely than Information Society. The Bitmaster, my hacker pseudonym and SysOp identity, still lives on in the electron pathways of my soul.
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