Tales of a Rock 'n' Roll Never Was

 Here's how I remember it: Late March of 1991, I was driving a courier van as a day job, had just quit the first "real" band I was in, and was shacking up with my then-girlfriend Ms. Polly Purebread.  While finishing my route one sunny Thursday afternoon I drove past the Orpheum Theater and saw posted on their marquee that The Sisters Of Mercy with special guest Danielle Dax were playing soon. Tickets were going on sale that coming Saturday. I nearly jumped out of my van in excitement. The Sisters AND Danielle Dax?!? Two of my favorite bands at the time, together, in concert!!! I quickly rolled back to the garage and dropped off my courier van and then high-tailed it to see Polly at her place of employment to tell her the news. She was just as excited as I was, until she brought up the question of how we were going to get tickets... This, obviously, was well before the days of online ticket purchasing, and neither of us had a credit card, so trying to get tickets on the p