My Shroomie Depeche Mode Concert Experience: An Extraordinarily Beautiful Night

On December 1st, 2023, I took some magic mushrooms two hours before a Depeche Mode concert (from their Memento Mori tour). I created a new 8-minute video to share what that experience was like – deeper, richer, and more beautiful than I’d imagined. I think it’s the best video I’ve made thus far. My Letter to Depeche Mode Dearest Depeche Mode, My intention in writing this is simply to thank you for what your music has meant to me. I first becoming aware of DM during the 80s (I was born in ’71). I have a fond memory of singing “People Are People” with my classmates to our teacher on a school bus during an 8th grade field trip in 1985. Sitting in L.A. traffic introduced me to many more DM songs, thanks to Richard Blade and KROQ. I remember having this a-ha moment when I learned that so many cool songs I liked – Just Can’t Get Enough, Get the Balance Right, Everything Counts, Master and Servant, Blasphemous Rumors, and more – were all from the same band. One band made all those incredible tunes??? During my 20s and 30s, I could honestly say that fully half of my music listening was of DM songs. I’ve since broadened my repertoire, but for many years I listened to your songs at least as much as those of all other musicians combined. While I enjoyed many other bands during those years too – New Order, Erasure, Duran Duran, The Cure, REM, and more – nothing else pierced right through me like so many of your songs di...
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