A good concert\u00a0makes me want to go home and play. A great concert makes me want to go home and write. Like this one.<\/p>\n
Colin Hay<\/a> brought his band to Monterey’s Golden State Theater last month. If you just expected a guy just checkboxing\u00a0his hits from the 80s, were *you* in for a surprise. To\u00a0most people, Hay was the frontman for Men at Work<\/a> and one of the original MTV video stars. (Remember MTV<\/a>? Groundbreaking cable channel. Used to play music.) I enjoyed MAW\u2019s hits, but I always thought that they never quite received the real recognition they deserved. They were more than a few clicks up from where they were pigeonholed as a post-punk, New Wave band back in my day.<\/p>\n More recently, I’ve become hip to Hays’ solo career. He’s\u00a0an amazingly prolific songwriter. He’s also fast become my latest musical crush. Just love this guy’s material.<\/p>\n
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