Live Shows/Concerts

If you like heavy metal, Metallica is doing a few shows this year.

metallica.com

Phil Collins said he can barely hold a drum stick. Why the hell they are doing this tour is anyone’s guess, but it can’t be for money. I’d rather remember them for what they were than what they are now.

The Stadium Tour keeps getting postponed

Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Poison & Joan Jett

If they ever pull it off, I’d be in

No plans to check out anything coming up in Phoenix, but thought about it.

Later this month:

The Eagles, but tickets cost a fortune and, well, no more Glen Frye.
Stone Temple Pilots playing with Bush, but I saw STP 20 years ago at the same place, and Weiland was incredible. No way the new guy holds up to that.

Next month:

Alanis & Garbage Flogging Molly (saw them play the smallest stage ever at Warped Tour 2000) ZZ Top is apparently still scheduled to play at a casino/resort pool area Dropkick Murphys & Rancid 311 (saw them once or twice) Bad Religion & Alkaline Trio (saw B.R. 3x - once with Blink 182 and they opened for Pearl Jam twice in Chicago) Jason Bonham's L.Z. thing Candlebox (saw them in 99) Primus

Last year I was supposed to see Rage, Pearl Jam, and Foo Fighters within an eight-day period. Pearl Jam and Foo Fighters would have been consecutive nights. And since the guys in those bands are buds, gotta figure there'd be a "special guest" collaboration at each of those shows. That would have so freaking awesome. But now no idea if any of them have been rescheduled.

Some links of Vedder and Grohl playing with Mike Watt 25-ish years ago... Damn I miss Grohl on drums.

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Fuck Bruce Springsteen.

I have tickets for Dave Matthews next week and then I have Dierks Bentley and Lynyrd Skynyrd on back to back nights in a couple of weeks. I just hope they all go on since I have had a few shows (Garth Brooks, Florida Georgia Line and a couple of others) that have either been canceled or pushed back to next year. Having a lot of the big shows canceled has given me a chance to see a lot of good local or regional bands playing at smaller venues around town this summer.

It doesn't matter if they are huge bands or local acts, I'm just glad to be able to go to live concerts again.

Before the pandemic I saw ice t for $14 in a small venue. Lots of interaction

I once bought ice tea for $14 at a swanky restaurant

Don't think Ice-T would be considered a big act anymore, but it would be cool at a little venue. Big acts at super-small places are killer. Back in 2000, I saw Smashing Pumpkins do a free show on the patio at a little bar by ASU. 250 people. It was awesome, right up against the stage, asked Billy Corgan for a guitar pick after "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" and he flipped it to me just a couple feet away. Pretty sure during some of his screams the dude's spit hit me in the face, ha. But tons of interaction...I remember a conversation between him and a couple guys in the crowd about Courtney Love being a bitch. Or a whore. Or maybe both. Hmmm...

"Don't think Ice-T would be considered a big act anymore, but it would be cool at a little venue."

Ice-T performing with Body Count would be cool like in this video.

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@theeckster - Tom Morello does a weekly show on the Lithium station on Sirius. He plays songs and tells stories, and usually his mom, who's pushing 100, sits in and chimes in with comments from time to time. The story I thought was funniest was about when Rage and Body Count played together a million years ago, Morello's mom had a little crush on Ice-T, watched their shows from right up at the barricade. She would've been damn near 70.

In the last 2 weeks had the opportunity to see both Halestorm and Shinedown. Thinking about seeing Hailstorm again in Joliet and December.

Purity Ring and Parquet Courts are both supposed to be touring locally in the coming months. I can't wait to enjoy live music again.

I prefer smaller venues for concerts. I like the interaction and the intimacy. I've seen ice t and cypress hill in small venues.

I missed some concerts coz of the pandemic. But its not that big of a deal.