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Re: The Concert Thread
« Reply #1365 on: July 21, 2011, 08:38:50 PM »
OK, just noticed these upcoming shows:

Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow (Shoreline, 7/29)
Kenny G. & Michael Bolton (Mountain Winery, 8/28)
Train & Maroon 5 (Sleeptrain Pavilion, 9/15)

Sooo, if you had a gun to your head...

Gun to my head and I'd take the Kid Rock show and leave before Sheryl. Assuming he'd open?
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Re: The Concert Thread
« Reply #1366 on: July 21, 2011, 09:47:47 PM »
OK, just noticed these upcoming shows:

Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow (Shoreline, 7/29)
Kenny G. & Michael Bolton (Mountain Winery, 8/28)
Train & Maroon 5 (Sleeptrain Pavilion, 9/15)

Sooo, if you had a gun to your head...


Kenny G and Michael Bolton, but I would go buy lite beers during all of Kenny G's  set.
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Re: The Concert Thread
« Reply #1367 on: July 21, 2011, 11:50:26 PM »
OK, just noticed these upcoming shows:

Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow (Shoreline, 7/29)
Kenny G. & Michael Bolton (Mountain Winery, 8/28)
Train & Maroon 5 (Sleeptrain Pavilion, 9/15)

Sooo, if you had a gun to your head...


Go ahead and pull the trigger.
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Re: The Concert Thread
« Reply #1368 on: July 22, 2011, 03:48:58 PM »
OK, just noticed these upcoming shows:

Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow (Shoreline, 7/29)
Kenny G. & Michael Bolton (Mountain Winery, 8/28)
Train & Maroon 5 (Sleeptrain Pavilion, 9/15)

Sooo, if you had a gun to your head...


Go ahead and pull the trigger.
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Re: The Concert Thread
« Reply #1369 on: July 25, 2011, 12:38:02 PM »
(Moving this over from the "Great Guitarists" set thread)


Any interest (yourself, or anyone else really) to see Los Lobos next week at the Mountain Winery?

If you haven't bought your tix yet, you might want to check on the health of the band members before you do so.

Saw the Lobes last night with Los Lonely Boys outdoors at the Portland Zoo. Very pleasant evening (we finally got a day with temps in the upper 80s) but it was probably one of the more shambolic Lobos shows I've seen. Due mainly to the ill health of several band members: David Hidalgo's voice was ragged and croaking; Cesar Rosas was better but only a bit, and bassist Conrad Lozano was MIA due to what Hidalgo termed "a medical emergency" the night before. He quickly added that he's doing better now, but they'd sent him home to recuperate and called in his son Vincent Hidalgo to pinch-hit on bass. The younger Hidalgo actually did a pretty fine job holding down the low end, so that Lozano's absence was not so acutely felt. And instrumentally they were pretty damn strong, as always. But I got the feeling throughout their set that they were doing whatever they could to just get through to the encore. They had Henry from Los Lonely Boys sit in on guitar and vox for a lengthy jam on Little Wing (a la SRV), and the rest of LLB came out for the encore, La Bamba and Good Lovin'.

Btw, I was enjoyed most of LLB's set, some nice Texas blues that pays unashamed homage to SRV and the Lobos, among other influences--right up until they pulled out their big hit to close it out. Of course, that's what got people on their feet; the Foghead mentality is everywhere.
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Re: The Concert Thread
« Reply #1370 on: August 02, 2011, 11:45:43 AM »
Sausalito Art Festival (a.k.a. "The County Fair for Bad Hotel Art") has announced their 2011 Entertainment Line-Up.

As usual, it's a veritable Who Was Who in pop music:

Saturday, September 3rd
12:00 to 1:00pm - Men Without Hats
1:30-2:30pm- The Romantics
3:15-4:30pm - The Human League
5:00-6:00pm - Notorious

Sunday, September 4th
11:00-11:45am - Lorin Rowan's Caribbean Bleu
12:30-1:45pm - Edgar Winter
2:30-3:45pm - Montrose
4:30pm – 6:00pm - World Classic Rockers (Featuring former members of: Lynard Skynard (sic), Toto, Stepppenwolf, Journey (sick!), Santana, and Boston)

Monday, September 5th
11:30-12:30pm - Wonderbread 5
1:00-2:00pm- The Smithereens
2:45-3:15pm - Blue Sky Riders
3:30-5:00pm - Kenny Loggins
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Re: The Concert Thread
« Reply #1371 on: August 02, 2011, 12:12:06 PM »

11:30-12:30pm - Wonderbread 5


is that an Osmonds cover band?
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Re: The Concert Thread
« Reply #1372 on: August 02, 2011, 12:28:50 PM »

11:30-12:30pm - Wonderbread 5


is that an Osmonds cover band?

ha, they probably DO cover an Osmond tune.  Cover band that wears big afro wigs and plays 70s pop.  Good-time party music for aging frat boys and others who need comfort-zone rock.  (see also: Tainted Love, another cover band)
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Re: The Concert Thread
« Reply #1373 on: August 14, 2011, 05:17:46 PM »
Went to Outside Lands on Saturday - ended up scoring 2 VIP tickets through someone at Another Planet.  I had to work most of the day, but got to see The Black Keys and Muse.  Not a huge fan of Muse, but man, what an incredible band to see live.  A combo platter of Queen, Pink Floyd and Depeche Mode.  I didn't run into Kate Hudson (ha), but saw Justin Chambers from Grey's Anatomy walking around with his wife and kids.  The Black Keys were pretty amazing, too.  Huge sounds coming from both bands...a duo and a trio, to boot.  The VIP bathrooms - on a scale of 1 - 10 get an 8 (!).  Hairspray, styling products & clean, clean, clean.  There was bleacher seating, too.  Thank gawd...there were - what - 60,000 people there and I didn't feel like dealing with the (drunk/high) crowd.

AL messaged me that she was going to be in the media tent and to stop by, but it was on the opposite side to where we were.  Too bad...it would've been fun.

I didn't get to go today, but Win Butler from Arcade Fire made a cameo during Mavis Staples' set and sang The Weight with her (I die!).  Here's a clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_iEbgC5X-E

The Black Keys setlist:

Thickfreakness
Girl Is On My Mind
The Breaks
Stack Shot Billy
Busted
Everlasting Light
Next Girl
Chop and Change
Howlin' For You
Tighten Up
She's Long Gone
Ten Cent Pistol
I'll Be Your Man
Strange Times
I Got Mine

Muse setlist:

Uprising
Supermassive Black Hole
Hysteria
(Star-Spangled Banner - Jimi Hendrix)
Map of the Problematique
Butterflies & Hurricanes
(Glastonbury 2004 intro)
Guiding Light
Citizen Erased
Nishe
United States Of Eurasia
Helsinki Jam
Undisclosed Desires
Resistance
Time Is Running Out
(House of the Rising Sun intro)
Starlight
Stockholm Syndrome

Encore:
Plug In Baby
Knights of Cydonia



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Re: The Concert Thread
« Reply #1374 on: August 14, 2011, 06:46:54 PM »

11:30-12:30pm - Wonderbread 5


is that an Osmonds cover band?

ha, they probably DO cover an Osmond tune.  Cover band that wears big afro wigs and plays 70s pop.  Good-time party music for aging frat boys and others who need comfort-zone rock.  (see also: Tainted Love, another cover band)

There was a SF band called Superbooty that did same from the late '90s through early '80s.  I saw them prolly a dozen times.  Wonderbread 5 does a lot of J5 material.
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Re: The Concert Thread
« Reply #1375 on: August 18, 2011, 08:37:01 AM »
Chronicle archive photos of '70s, 80s, 90s Bay Area outdoor concerts:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/parenting/detail?entry_id=95624

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Re: The Concert Thread
« Reply #1376 on: August 18, 2011, 06:41:10 PM »
Chronicle archive photos of '70s, 80s, 90s Bay Area outdoor concerts:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/parenting/detail?entry_id=95624
I just gotta say...I was Randy Jackson's roadie for that gig!
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Re: The Concert Thread
« Reply #1377 on: August 19, 2011, 09:36:08 AM »
Chronicle archive photos of '70s, 80s, 90s Bay Area outdoor concerts:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/parenting/detail?entry_id=95624
Enjoyed seeing those. We were lucky to have Day on the Greens. Those were some fun times.
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Re: The Concert Thread
« Reply #1378 on: August 20, 2011, 11:50:56 AM »
Goldstar is selling half-price tix for Sade @ Oracle Arena this Fri (8/26). This concert -- her first in ages -- went on sale, like, 9 months ago... and it's still not sold out??
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Re: The Concert Thread
« Reply #1379 on: August 20, 2011, 12:37:21 PM »
Goldstar is selling half-price tix for Sade @ Oracle Arena this Fri (8/26). This concert -- her first in ages -- went on sale, like, 9 months ago... and it's still not sold out??

They kept adding shows, I guess.  I'm going Friday with a FB 10@10er.  Coast to coast, L.A. to Chicago...