Month: April 2011

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Summer Concerts

Notices have been coming at me from all kinds of sources for summer concert lineups and dates. In Nashville, there is always the 10 day Fan Fair in early June, and then Bonnaroo is just down the road in early June, as well.

Some of the other places that are great for concerts are in the DC area and just outside of Baltimore. I like to go to Wolf Trap Park for concerts scheduled throughout the summer. These are always big headliner acts, but the venue is small and very casual. Then, there is the Merriwether Post Pavilion in Columbia, which is an outdoor amphitheater who books big name rock and country shows.

One place I’ve always wanted to go is the Red Rocks Canyon in Colorado for a concert. I have never been out there yet – it is on my bucket list.

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Tape

For some reason I had to read about the 3M company on the internet. It tured out to be a really interesting story. The company was founded by three guys who wanted to make money mining in Minnesota. But the stuff they were mining wasn’t worth much and they had to find other ways to making a living. Their business actually lost money for the first 20 years they were running it. Can you imagine holding onto a business that lost money for 20 years straight? No way any banks in today’s world would back them for 20 years. Eventually they starting adding new inventions and selling chemical solutions to industrial problems. The first thing they sold that made money was sandpaper. Then the next thing they made money on was tape. Amazing resilience and  determination from those men.