Concerts you plan to attend this year

[Phil Goyette]

Saw John Anderson and the Band Geeks back in the spring.....one of the best concerts I have ever seen. 

Saw Night Ranger the other night. Blades can still bring it at 71. All the original bandmates. Great show.

Seeing McCartney for the fifth time in November. 

[Weave]

5 hours ago, Derrico said:

Wasn’t the best show I’ve seen them play but nice to see a sold out crowd downtown. 

I was there with my family.  The kids spent way too much on my wife’s birthday and got tickets for the 4 of us.  Surprised “us” this morning.  I knew, but had been sworn to secrecy.  The only reason they told me, was because my job was to keep the calendar clear.  They bought what they could afford.  The tix were in the tippy top row, 300 level.

We got there around halfway through Dashboard Confessionals set.  Up to the last row in the dark, made our way to our seats, sat down, and I noticed my wife was on the verge of hyperventilating.  She was near terrified. She’d never been in the arena cheap seats, and I didn’t expect this. A couple of songs in, I went back down to floor level to find account services to see if I could pay for an upgrade. Nope. Not a single ticket available for us to buy in the lower level.  Yikes.

I offered to take everyone out on the town.  I suggested we listen for a bit at a hallway hightop table.  She stuck it out through the opener, and when the lights came on between bands she settled down a bit.  She never fully got comfortable, but did relax enough to do some butt dancing when the Dolls came on.  She did say she was ready to go before they ended.  I assume it was a song or two before encore, assuming they did an encore.

She got a t shirt.  That made her happy.

Lesson to self, no cheap seats for Momma.

[sabremike]

9 hours ago, Derrico said:

Wasn’t the best show I’ve seen them play but nice to see a sold out crowd downtown. 

I thought they were great, and so was Dashboard.

 

[PromoTheRobot]

I was offered tickets for Neil Young in two weeks in NH.

5 hours ago, Phil Goyette said:

Saw John Anderson and the Band Geeks back in the spring.....one of the best concerts I have ever seen. 

Saw Night Ranger the other night. Blades can still bring it at 71. All the original bandmates. Great show.

Seeing McCartney for the fifth time in November. 

Jon Anderson can still hit those high notes.

[Pimlach]

Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan just played at Darien Lake.  Anyone go? 
 

 

 

[Indabuff]

Just scored tickets to Deftones.

[Weave]

6 hours ago, Indabuff said:

Just scored tickets to Deftones.

I’m tempted.  Saw them about 10-12yrs ago at Darien Lake.  They put on a good show.

[Dex]

Heading over to Saratoga Performing Arts Center on Friday, Sept 5th to see Gov't Mule and the Tedeschi Trucks Band.  I'm a big fan of Tedeschi Trucks and Warren Haynes. I saw him with Dead and Company years ago, but have not seen Gov't Mule.  As a long time Allman Brothers Band fan (since the early 1970s), I really enjoyed the Trucks/Haynes duo on guitar in their last incarnation.  Hoping one of them joins the other's band for one or two Allman Brothers songs.

[TheAud]

Just saw Keb Mo tonight. He and his band were great as usual. 

Interesting that it was advertised as Shawn Colvin and Keb Mo but Shawn was actually an opening act of sorts with Keb Mo and his band being her backing band on 4-5 songs in addition to 3 she did solo with acoustic guitar. Then she left the stage and 'Mo played for 1.5 hours. 

[TheAud]

6 hours ago, Dex said:

Heading over to Saratoga Performing Arts Center on Friday, Sept 5th to see Gov't Mule and the Tedeschi Trucks Band.  I'm a big fan of Tedeschi Trucks and Warren Haynes. I saw him with Dead and Company years ago, but have not seen Gov't Mule.  As a long time Allman Brothers Band fan (since the early 1970s), I really enjoyed the Trucks/Haynes duo on guitar in their last incarnation.  Hoping one of them joins the other's band for one or two Allman Brothers songs.

FYI the 5 co-headliner shows with Gov't Mule and TTB are all being streamed on Nugs, if you are a subscriber or a member of the TTB fan club. I am going to the Detroit show as seeing the Mule and TTB in the same night is a bucket list item for me. Will also be interesting to see who opens and who closes each night. TTB is doing the alternating open/close thing with Whiskey Myers right now. That's a weird pairing (I saw it in St Louis) but TTB and Gov't Mule is perfect. 

And yes, I will be shocked if Warren and Derek don't join forces to bring out some ABB tunes each night. I expect for the 6th show they co-headline, later in October in Macon, GA that some of the other brothers like Oteil and Jaimoe may show up as well.