Jeff Beck and ZZ Top. Jeff Beck was boring, watched a 78 year old man noodle around on a guitar for an hour...his drummer was really good though. Billy Gibbons is still a bad motherfucker, the difference in stage presence between him and Beck was like night and day. They played all the hits you would expect. Just Got Paid, damn it just rips. Jeff Beck came back out for the encore and played 4 songs with them. Rough Boy was a surprise, and now I can say I've seen La Grange featuring Jeff Beck...although I think it would've been better without him.
RHCP last night in Arlington. Flea and Frusciante together is a beautiful thing. Got soul to squeeze and I could have lied, so I was happy. They were better than I anticipated.
definitely had a zappa phase. i've always been obsessesed with the part of the song that starts at 1:48, love that pedal steel...i understand it was the dude from the flying burrito brothers playing that part.
wednesday night at COTA saw:
bush- was never a huge fan. gavin rossdale was clearly singing to a backing vocal track most of the time, he did have a lot of energy though.
breaking benjamin- giant bag of shit. this is music for people who think linkin park is a good band.
alice in chains- 3rd time i've seen them with the "new" lead singer...who has actually been with the band longer than layne staley was. he does a good job of doing the songs justice without trying to sound exactly like staley. man in the box is such a fucking jam live. mostly played older stuff with 2 or 3 post layne staley songs thrown in there. jerry cantrell still sounds good and they can still bring it.
Finally got to mark Greek Theater Berkeley off the list, what a fantastic venue. Beautiful view, great sound, not a bad seat in the house. NIN was amazing as always.
did not enjoy NIN night 2 at red rocks as much as the first night based solely on setlist, still a great show though. still maintain that "everything" is the worst song they have.
mastodon/ghost at moody center last night. mastodon sounded like shit, it was just a giant wall of indistinguishable noise...they had a keyboard player but i'm not sure he was playing anything. pretty disappointing as they've sounded great every other time i've seen them. ghost was fucking incredible, one of the best shows i've seen this year. the stage, the lights, the pyrotechnics, all of it was so good. everyone on the floor was super into it and it was fun as hell.