Concerts you are attending

[texasdago 7,571]

Blues on the Green lineup for the first concert looks pretty good.

Sneaky Peaches and the Fuzz have a stupid name but catchy music.

Zach Person will be good.

Have not really listened to Sir Woman but know they're getting a lot of attention lately.  

[jinx 2,635]

I saw Lukas Nelson earlier this month. Absolutely fantastic show. I’ll see him again.

Saw The Lumineers with Caamp as the opener in Jacksonville a couple weeks ago. Both bands were awesome. I can’t stop listening to Caamp, they are my current favorite.

My buddy just saw Paul McCartney at the Citrus Bowl this past weekend and said he played for 3 hours. Hate I missed that one. 

[CooterBrown 18,006]

Have not really listened to Sir Woman but know they're getting a lot of attention lately.  

I prefer her other band, Wild Child. Sir Woman was supposed to be a one off record and tour but took off on its own. I hope Wild Child comes back since their last album was fantastic.

[tx 3 putt 76,905]

Old Crow Medicine Show

these boys are coked up !

[CooterBrown 18,006]

Bikini Kill caught the rona and cancelled their European tour. So, now two of my Europe shows have cancelled. Nine Inch Nails better be fucking isolating until their London show on the 21st.

[HornPhD 1,368]

BottleRock was great this year. Met a lot of cool people in town from TX; however, nobody from Surly. 

On Friday, we posted up early at the fence between the VIP and Platinum sections to guarantee being up close for Metallica. Luckily, all the bands we wanted to see (Fantastic Negrito, Spoon, Greta Van Fleet, Metallica) played at the same stage. I was really impressed by Marcus King and probably would have missed him if it weren’t for the artists before and after him. Hope to see him perform live again. 

We were checking out Bastardane early in the day (1pm) and Hetlfield was there (his son is the band’s drummer).

[HornPhD 1,368]

Saturday at BottleRock was Greensky Bluegrass, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, The Black Crowes, and Mount Westmore. 

 

[HornPhD 1,368]

Sunday at BottleRock was more relaxed. We arrived later in the day and saw Michael Franti. He put on the most positive show I’ve ever attended. During one of the songs, he jumped off the stage and made his way around the crowd. After Franti, we just ate and roamed around before Pink went on. She is very entertaining live. My wife’s phone has the video and pictures of her flying above the crowd. 

Edited June 2, 2022 by HornPhD

[thunderlounge 7,816]

2 hours ago, HornPhD said:

BottleRock was great this year. Met a lot of cool people in town from TX; however, nobody from Surly. 

On Friday, we posted up early at the fence between the VIP and Platinum sections to guarantee being up close for Metallica. Luckily, all the bands we wanted to see (Fantastic Negrito, Spoon, Greta Van Fleet, Metallica) played at the same stage. I was really impressed by Marcus King and probably would have missed him if it weren’t for the artists before and after him. Hope to see him perform live again. 

We were checking out Bastardane early in the day (1pm) and Hetlfield was there (his son is the band’s drummer).

Wow. You got Hardwired and Whiskey in a Jar. 
 

I’m very thankful I got whiplash and Moth Into Flame in those slots. Hardwired would be fine, but not over whiplash. 
 

I’d take chopsticks over whiskey in a jar. 🤣

 

[The Ace of Aces 5,181]

Summer/early fall lineup looks nice for me. Haven’t been to this many shows since probably around 2008 but I said f it I’m almost too old to go to shoes and I’ll hate most of these experiences but it’s one last hurrah mostly 

June
Belle and Sebastian (Japanese Breakfast opening)
Lisa Loeb
Jason Isbell (Sheryl Crow opening)

July
Dead & Co (maybe)
Death Cab For Cutie
The Roots
Elton John 
Courtney Barnett (Lucy Ducas opening)

August
Kaleo (maybe)
Lord Huron
Brandi Carlile 
Ben Folds

September
The National
Pearl Jam
Nathaniel Rateliff and the Nightsweats (maybe)
Jason Isbell
Sunny Day Real Estate
Low

October
Pavement
Avett Bros
Arcade Fire (Beck opening)

[nolongerU2horn 763]

^^^Solid

[Cairn Horn88 8,262]

Steely Dan

Herb Albert

Dionne Warwick

Tom Jones

[Cairn Horn88 8,262]

 

It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton, and my brother was balin' hay
And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
And mama hollered out the back door, y'all, remember to wipe your feet
And then she said, I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge
Today, Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge.

 

[4th&Five 41,525]

After a packed April and Mail I have a pretty light Summer. PJ in Budapest is the big one. 

[Jerry Callo 8,700]

 

I'll be attending this today.  I have no idea who any of the acts are, but I enjoy listening to almost any live music.  I expect to be in a barbecue coma before the main stage acts begin, anyway.

[Bogeywon 2,519]

On 6/2/2022 at 8:27 PM, The Ace of Aces said:

Summer/early fall lineup looks nice for me. Haven’t been to this many shows since probably around 2008 but I said f it I’m almost too old to go to shoes and I’ll hate most of these experiences but it’s one last hurrah mostly 

June
Belle and Sebastian (Japanese Breakfast opening)
Lisa Loeb
Jason Isbell (Sheryl Crow opening)

July
Dead & Co (maybe)
Death Cab For Cutie
The Roots
Elton John 
Courtney Barnett (Lucy Ducas opening)

August
Kaleo (maybe)
Lord Huron
Brandi Carlile 
Ben Folds

September
The National
Pearl Jam
Nathaniel Rateliff and the Nightsweats (maybe)
Jason Isbell
Sunny Day Real Estate
Low

October
Pavement
Avett Bros
Arcade Fire (Beck opening)

The saddest days in my life when I get too old too:

play my guitar 

go to concerts 

my 2 favorite things. Have a blast! I’d buy you a beer if I could.

[C-Man 27,214]

Going to see CAAMP at The Greek Theatre in LA in about a month. Will be third time to see them since late April. I’m obsessed with this band.

[Damor 1,236]

Just got back from taking my 14yo to see Lord Huron at Red Rocks.  First time there for either of us.  Wow, it lived up to the hype.

I'd considered it a bucket list item, but instead of marking it off I'm now looking for the next show we want to see up there.

Also, I can recommend the Eddy Hotel if you're traveling up there.  It was really cool, was walking distance to fun stuff in Golden, and had a concert shuttle that was well worth it.

[C-Man 27,214]

On 5/31/2022 at 10:08 AM, Pescado_Rojo said:

CAAMP @ Red Rocks 10/3

I'm dying to get up there for one of their two shows at Red Rocks.

 

On 5/31/2022 at 11:25 PM, jinx said:

I saw Lukas Nelson earlier this month. Absolutely fantastic show. I’ll see him again.

Saw The Lumineers with Caamp as the opener in Jacksonville a couple weeks ago. Both bands were awesome. I can’t stop listening to Caamp, they are my current favorite.

My buddy just saw Paul McCartney at the Citrus Bowl this past weekend and said he played for 3 hours. Hate I missed that one. 

As I mentioned a few posts up, I'm completely obsessed with CAAMP at the moment. Seeing them (again LOL) a month from tonight in LA.

 

11 hours ago, Damor said:

Just got back from taking my 14yo to see Lord Huron at Red Rocks.  First time there for either of us.  Wow, it lived up to the hype.

I'd considered it a bucket list item, but instead of marking it off I'm now looking for the next show we want to see up there.

Also, I can recommend the Eddy Hotel if you're traveling up there.  It was really cool, was walking distance to fun stuff in Golden, and had a concert shuttle that was well worth it.

Red Rocks is an insanely cool music venue.

[BigOrange1 6,436]

11 hours ago, Damor said:

Just got back from taking my 14yo to see Lord Huron at Red Rocks.  First time there for either of us.  Wow, it lived up to the hype.

I'd considered it a bucket list item, but instead of marking it off I'm now looking for the next show we want to see up there.

Also, I can recommend the Eddy Hotel if you're traveling up there.  It was really cool, was walking distance to fun stuff in Golden, and had a concert shuttle that was well worth it.

that's awesome.  red rocks is a great venue and lord huron is bad fucking ass.  i bet that was a great show.

[stc 1,461]

steely dan at acl live last night. donald fagan's voice is pretty weak and he's letting the backup singers prop him up a lot...otherwise the band is tight as hell and they sounded fantastic. setlist isn't all that different from the last time i saw them but i'll take it. 

[AnotherUTFan 9,733]

I was lucky to get a last minute ticket to see Ringo Starr and his All Starr Band at the Beacon Theater last night. Really fun show, great band.

[jimmyjazz 45,899]

I see Steve Lukather -- who else is in the band these days?

[AnotherUTFan 9,733]

I see Steve Lukather -- who else is in the band these days?

Colin Hay, Hamish Stewart,, Warren Hamm. There were minus keys for this show and said Edgar Winter had tested positive for COVID. All is gear was set up on stage, but vacant. Colin Hay was incredible.

[jimmyjazz 45,899]

Yeah, Hay really turned my head when he did the acoustic "Overkill" on Scrubs.

 

EDIT:  "Ghosts appear and fade away" might be a top 10 lyric for me.  I never, ever got it from the original pop recording.  

 

EDIT:  Fuck it, I'll go full fanboi.  This is amazing:

 

 

Edited June 8, 2022 by jimmyjazz

[AnotherUTFan 9,733]

Yeah, Hay really turned my head when he did the acoustic "Overkill" on Scrubs.
 
EDIT:  "Ghosts appear and fade away" might be a top 10 lyric for me.  I never, ever got it from the original pop recording.  
 
EDIT:  Fuck it, I'll go full fanboi.  This is amazing:
 
 

They did that one! He really caught my eye when I saw him do a solo, acoustic version of "Who Can It Be Now" on the youtubes several years back. For me, he was as central to the show as Ringo last night.

2 things.

1) At one point he said he's been asked if songwriting was a worthwhile endeavor - he replied, "I wrote this one in 30 minutes and have lived off it for 40 years, so yes". Then went into "Land Down Under".

2) Right before Overkill i went up to the stage directly in front of him and he pointed at me and said hi! I moved back to my seat at the direction of security just after, but it was a cool moment.

Steve Lukather really hit my radar last night. Ive always liked the Toto hits, but never realized what a player he is. Phenominal. He commented that it was new playing those songs without keys since Edger was out, but they sounded just as great stripped down.

[jimmyjazz 45,899]

5 minutes ago, AnotherUTFan said:

Steve Lukather really hit my radar last night. Ive always liked the Toto hits, but never realized what a player he is. Phenominal. He commented that it was new playing those songs without keys since Edger was out, but they sounded just as great stripped down.

Lukather is a total monster.  His session list is mind-blowing.

[AnotherUTFan 9,733]

Lukather is a total monster.  His session list is mind-blowing.

Ya, I Googled him after the show. Wow. He's done everything, including Thriller. Really fun show last night.

[Buzzrock 14,918]

Colin Hay acoustic live is a great show. He’s an awesome storyteller.

[Damor 1,236]

On 6/6/2022 at 1:00 AM, BigOrange1 said:

that's awesome.  red rocks is a great venue and lord huron is bad fucking ass.  i bet that was a great show.

It was amazing, and I love that band.  Absolutely lived up to expectations.

Well... I didn't expect to bring COVID home with me, but no ragrets.

[Underdog 28,612]

7 hours ago, Buzzrock said:

Colin Hay acoustic live is a great show. He’s an awesome storyteller.

One of the best voices in music, imo.  I’d love to see him in concert sometime.  

[AnotherUTFan 9,733]

If anybody has plans on attending Psycho Las Vegas in August, one of my bands, "The Koffs", took the absolute last band on bill spot for the "Psycho Swim" pool party the day before. So we get to kick the whole thing off! Come say hi.

[Longhorn Al 440]

I'm seeing The Warning open for Halestorm & The Pretty Reckless in Irving, August 2.

Then I'm seeing The Warning and Halestorm in San Antonio (Sept 29) & Corpus Christi (Oct 1).

Also Seeing Band-Maid in Houston (Oct 22).

[Brisketexan 105,095]

Yeah, Hay really turned my head when he did the acoustic "Overkill" on Scrubs.
 
EDIT:  "Ghosts appear and fade away" might be a top 10 lyric for me.  I never, ever got it from the original pop recording.  
 
EDIT:  Fuck it, I'll go full fanboi.  This is amazing:
 
 

One of the best voices in music, imo.  I’d love to see him in concert sometime.  

Man, I dig me some Colin Hay. And yeah, his acoustic Overkill is strong in my rotation, and has been for years. It’s such a fantastic song.

That Starr all star band show sounds incredible.

[Buzzrock 14,918]

I'm seeing The Warning open for Halestorm & The Pretty Reckless in Irving, August 2.
Then I'm seeing The Warning and Halestorm in San Antonio (Sept 29) & Corpus Christi (Oct 1).
Also Seeing Band-Maid in Houston (Oct 22).

Girl power! \m/

[Axle Hongsnort 208]

I’m thinking about Ty Segall & Freedom Band at Mohawk next week. Never seen them.

[Bogeywon 2,519]

The Lumineers Clarkston, Michigan

 

 

[VirginiaLonghorn 4,771]

On 6/6/2022 at 12:38 PM, stc said:

steely dan at acl live last night. donald fagan's voice is pretty weak and he's letting the backup singers prop him up a lot...otherwise the band is tight as hell and they sounded fantastic. setlist isn't all that different from the last time i saw them but i'll take it. 

So, would you do it again?

[Longhorn Al 440]

On 6/10/2022 at 6:30 AM, Buzzrock said:

Girl power! \m/

haha I guess so. I'm going for The Warning. I don't know any music from the other 2 bands. I'll be learning.

[Leeroy Jenkins 2,402]

Going to see Metric at the House of Blues on a Wednesday night in Sep then the Gorillaz at the Moody Center on Friday Night 

[Yankee 39]

Got a ticket for Joshua Ray Walker and Sarah Shook and the Disarmers at Antones on Thursday.

[Buzzrock 14,918]

haha I guess so. I'm going for The Warning. I don't know any music from the other 2 bands. I'll be learning.

I’ve seen all three. Halestorm is fronted by Lzzy Hale, she’s the chick on the ESPN College Gameday intro. Here she is covering Pantera with some other awesome ladies (none of y’all can have Reba Meyers I already called dibs):

The Pretty Reckless is fronted by Taylor Momsen, aka Cindy Lou Who from the Jim Carey Grinch movie:



She all growns up now though:



They are a guilty pleasure band for me. I saw them open for Soundgarden on one of their last shows. I like them for the cheesy thing they are. It sounds like she made a band with a bunch of her dad’s buddies (I would totally be in that band):

[stc 1,461]

saw jimmy buffett at the moody arena on saturday night. arena is nice...plenty of bars and bathrooms, rows were wide enough to walk by someone without them standing up. sound is still shit...plenty loud but muddy as fuck. concert was fun, lots of old drunk people having a good time. was surprised he had about 12 people on stage. voice still sounds fine. 

 

also $12.50 for a bud light and $14 for a budweiser...apparently budweiser is premium. wtf. 

[The Ace of Aces 5,181]

Saw Belle and Sebastian and Japanese Breakfast last night at Wolf Trap in Virginia. B&S is one of my top 3 favorite bands and I've loved them since 1997; they still kill it live. They had a great set - real old stuff, middle-catolog stuff, and songs off their latest album.

Japanese Breakfast surprised me. I like their stuff, but always thought a show would be like a somewhat mundane play-by-numbers stand and play and leave. Nope. They jammed. It was spectacular. 

[Buzzrock 14,918]

Just grabbed tix for Foals at a smaller venue here in Atlanta in December. They are always awesome live, I’m pretty stoked.

[Patricio Swayze 17,058]

Gonna buy tickets in the morning for my brother, that shithead Ldogg and myself for Clutch/Helmet/Quicksand/JD Pinkus.  The two first albums from Quicksand and Helmet were really important for me in the 90s.

[ScottS 1,062]

On 5/4/2022 at 11:16 PM, ScottS said:

Any of you NYC area posters attending the John Hinckley Jr. concert on July 8th in Brooklyn at the Market Hotel?  No idea if Jodie Foster is planning on attending.

https://www.markethotel.org/calendar/2022/6/17/scenic-presents-voivod-63h9y

I am loathe to quote myself, but if anyone was thinking about making the John Hinckley Jr. Concert at the Market Hotel, well, you are out of luck.

https://deadline.com/2022/06/john-hinckley-jr-brooklyn-concert-canceled-market-hotel-1235046409/

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John Hinckley Jr.’s  planned Brooklyn concert was actually the third stop on his so-called Redemption Tour to cancel, says the singer-songrwriter who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981.

“I’ve had 3 concerts cancelled – Chicago, Connecticut and now Brooklyn,” Hinckley tweeted this afternoon. “The promoter is looking for another venue.”

Concerts at Chicago’s Logan Square Auditorium, which had been planned for July 23, and a New Year’s Eve concert at the Space Ballroom in Hamden, Connecticut, apparently were canceled prior to the announcement by the Brooklyn venue Market Hotel yesterday.

In an email sent by the Market Hotel to ticketholders yesterday, the venue said that Scenic Events NYC, Hinckley’s promoter, was seeking a replacement venue for the concert. “If a new location is secured, you will be contacted via this email address in advance of the date, with the new location information,” the message states. “If the organizers are unable to secure a new venue for the concert, then the purchase price of your ticket(s) will be refunded within 3 days of the scheduled event date.”

 

John Hinckley John Hinckley YouTube

John Hinckley Jr.’s  planned Brooklyn concert was actually the third stop on his so-called Redemption Tour to cancel, says the singer-songrwriter who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981.

“I’ve had 3 concerts cancelled – Chicago, Connecticut and now Brooklyn,” Hinckley tweeted this afternoon. “The promoter is looking for another venue.”

Concerts at Chicago’s Logan Square Auditorium, which had been planned for July 23, and a New Year’s Eve concert at the Space Ballroom in Hamden, Connecticut, apparently were canceled prior to the announcement by the Brooklyn venue Market Hotel yesterday.

In an email sent by the Market Hotel to ticketholders yesterday, the venue said that Scenic Events NYC, Hinckley’s promoter, was seeking a replacement venue for the concert. “If a new location is secured, you will be contacted via this email address in advance of the date, with the new location information,” the message states. “If the organizers are unable to secure a new venue for the concert, then the purchase price of your ticket(s) will be refunded within 3 days of the scheduled event date.”

On its Twitter page, Scenic Presents describes itself as a “Brooklyn based shadowy organization fighting faux-indie, boring, corporate chain rock shows since the new millennium.”

Hinckley was released from court supervision Wednesday 41 years after his attempted assassination in 1981 of Reagan. The long-planned concert at the hip venue in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood was canceled out of safety concerns, the venue operators said yesterday.

Hinckley, a singer-songwriter who has released his music on streaming sites and a YouTube channel, was set to have made his first post-release concert appearance at the Market Hotel venue on July 8. The show, which quickly sold out in recent weeks, was canceled by the venue today for what the proprietors said was, in part, concern “for the safety of our vulnerable communities…”

Though the venue operators defended the initial decision to open the club to Hinckley, noting that the 67-year-old singer-guitarist’s planned concert tour “sends a message that mental health issues and a criminal past can be recovered from and atoned for, after serving one’s debt to society and getting real treatment” – ultimately the security risks weren’t worth the gamble.

“If we were going to host an event for the principle, and potentially put others at risk in doing so, it shouldn’t be for some stunt booking — no offense to the artist,” the venue said in a statement on its Instagram page.  “We might feel differently if we believed the music was important and transcended the infamy, but that’s just not the case here.”

All restrictions on Hinckley’s freedom were lifted today in a move that has been expected since last fall, when U.S. District Court Judge Paul L. Friedman said he’d free Hinckley if he remained mentally stable and residing in the Virginia community where he has lived under supervision since 2016.

“After 41 years 2 months and 15 days, FREEDOM AT LAST!!!, ” Hinckley tweeted just after midnight today.

Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity after shooting Reagan on March 30, 1981, wounding the president as well as police officer Thomas Delahanty and Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy. More seriously wounded was Reagan’s Press Secretary James Brady, who was permanently disabled and died from his injuries 33 years later. Hinckley would later claim that he carried out the attempted assassination to garner the attention of actress Jodie Foster.

In yesterday’s statement from the Market Hotel, the venue operators say that the event came to the Hotel through “a third-party promoter, and we approved it because it sounded like an interesting gathering and a memorable night. Hosting provocative happenings for its own sake is valid, and should be part of any venue’s reason to exist.

“There was a time when a place could host a thing like this, maybe a little offensive, and the reaction would be ‘it’s just a guy playing a show, who does it hurt — it’s a free country.’ We aren’t living in that kind of free country anymore, for better or for worse.”

Here is the venue’s full statement:

After a lot of serious consideration, we are canceling the scheduled event at Market Hotel with John Hinckley.

This even came to Market Hotel through a third-party promoter, and we approved it because it sounded like an interesting gathering and a memorable night. Hosting provocative happenings for its own sake is valid, and should be part of any venue’s reason to exist. The tour also sends a message that mental health issues and a criminal past can be recovered from and atoned for, after serving one’s debt to society and getting real treatment.

There was a time when a place could host a thing like this, maybe a little offensive, and the reaction would be “it’s just a guy playing a show, who does it hurt — it’s a free country.” We aren’t living in that kind of free country anymore, for better or for worse.

It’s worth reiterating that this guy performing harms no one in any practical way. This is a sexagenarian with an acoustic guitar. All the outrage and concern are entirely about the quote message it sends unquote. Make no mistake: canceling this concert will not deter future assassins and will have no effect on mass shootings, and it certainly won’t reverse the awfulness of what Hinckley did 40 years ago. It’s also ludicrous to claim allowing the show might inspire some future killer — “I wanna be like Hinckley — he got to play Market Hotel.” We’re a little room and it’s just a concert. It does not “matter” — beyond the strong emotions it has been used to stoke.

We do believe that ex-cons and people will mental illness can recover, and that we should want them to maintain hope that they can better themselves and earn a chance to fully rejoin society… but we are living in dangerous times, and after being presented with and reflecting on some very real and worsening threats and hate facing our vulnerable communities — our family here in nightlife — and after seeing the nature of who this booking has antagonized, and who and what else those same folks are upset about: we don’t see the need to allow someone who did something awful to skip the line and play even our middle size independent community stage — and in doing so put our vulnerable communities at risk (without their consent) — especially if that artist wouldn’t have sold the tickets without the story of who they are and the violent thing they did.

If we were going to host an event for the principle, and potentially put others at risk in doing so, it shouldn’t be for some stunt booking — no offense to the artist. We might feel differently if we believed the music was important and transcended the infamy, but that’s just not the case here (though any artist can get there — even someone who committed awful crimes and suffered mental illness).

It is not worth the gamble on the safety of our vulnerable communities to give a guy a microphone and a paycheck from his art who hasn’t had to earn it, who we don’t care about on an artistic level, and who upsets people in a dangerously radicalized, reactionary climate.
– love, MARKET HOTEL

 

[thunderlounge 7,816]

Do we got an over/under yet on how many shows he gets in before he meets his demise?

[4th&Five 41,525]

41 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:

Gonna buy tickets in the morning for my brother, that shithead Ldogg and myself for Clutch/Helmet/Quicksand/JD Pinkus.  The two first albums from Quicksand and Helmet were really important for me in the 90s.

I remember seeing Helmet in ‘97 at Liberty Lunch. Loud, hot, crazy show. 

Edited June 17, 2022 by 4th&Five

[Patricio Swayze 17,058]

I remember seeing Helmet in ‘97 at Liberty Lunch. Loud, hot, crazy show. 

Ldogg and I were there. Helmet and the Melvins. If I recall correctly. The first time I saw them was in 1994 when they played with The Rollins Band at the International Ballroom in Houston.