Concerts thread: Best/Worst/Next/Last one you attended?

Kenny Rogers at the symphony center in Nashville on Valentine's Day.

Looking like Mrs. t_b_f will buy us Randy Rodgers, Wade Bowen and Stoney Larue tickets for March.

 

Always avoid setlists unless I am going to see someone like Springsteen who changes things up so radically from night to night. Because most artists - despite what they tell Rolling Stone - play the same songs in pretty much the same order every night.

 

Will see Billy Joel soon. Second time, and the first time was quite good.

Setlists have been honing on "Glass Houses," "The Stranger," "52nd Street" and "The Nylon Curtain."

Can't wait ...

 

Wynonna Judd last night with the Nashville symphony. She was a last-minute replacement for Kenny Rogers. Not too bad.

Currently logged into Tickemaster to buy Bruce Springsteen tickets.

 

Bruce tickets purchased. I am stoked.

 

When I was a kid, my parents used to take me to the free Carmen concert whenever he came to town. He was a smarmy guy in his 40s who genre-hopped with Christian songs, with a surprisingly high concentration of hip-hop.

 

Would absolutely have loved to see Neil at Carnegie Hall.

 

Growing up on this stuff and now years later not in the church and as a person who can look at it from the outside, I've always wanted to take the time to write a book about late 1980s and 1990s CCM music. The GQ article by John Jeremiah Sullivan "Upon This Rock" back in 2004 hinted at the depths you could go into it. The movement foretold a lot of what the culture war would become, how companies began getting into values-based markets and convincing consumers they shared those values. I'm interested in how some of the stars couldn't live up to judgement of the movement ( Ray Boltz was gay, Amy Grant and Kevin Max got divorced, Charlie Peacock dared to write and mix songs about relationships).

I think there would be plenty of meat on that bone to investigate the whole movement and its larger role in what America became by the early 2000s.

 

Ray Boltz was gay!?!?!?!??!?!!!

 

He has a chance to do some big things now that he's finally quit smoking dope.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-young-opens-up-about-sobriety-20120919

 

Yeah. Hopefully he'll be productive now:

Neil is a genius, and I love the variety of the work he has put out. For instance, I love Old Ways.

But, I haven't seen him live since he was touring in support of Greendale. Was not a fan of that show, and I think it was actually before the album was released, so i wasn't familiar with the vast majority of the show. (He did the full album, before playing a couple of favorites.)

But, to see him acoustic at Carnegie Hall, which is one of my favorite venues is at the top of my dream wish shows.

Luckily, it looks like he won't retire any time soon:

The marijuana thing is sort of interesting though. His promise to Crosby that if he got clean, he would rejoin CSNY seemed to be heartfelt, and important to Crosby. I wonder if Neil just looked at marijuana as such a "soft" drug, that he doesn't/didn't consider quitting it part of getting clean.

 

Yup. That mustache makes sense in hindsight.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/15/us/15religion.html?_r=0