OT: What Concerts Will You Be Attending This Summer?
So I have a busy summer planned attending concerts. I'm going to see Neutral Milk Hotel in Royal Oak on June 18th, and returning to the greater Detroit area on June 19 to see Andrew Jackson Jihad play. Following that up with The Hold Steady in Lansing on July 8th. Also Gordon Lightfoot is coming to Northern Michigan sometime in June, and I may check that out also. What shows do you plan on seeing this summer?
Saw them at The Fillmore in Detroit a few years back. Great show.
John Hiatt & Taj Mahal at Woodland Park Zoo (Seattle). Whatever looks good at the Tractor. Zoe Muth there in a few weeks.
Just Bonnaroo for now.
April 28th, 2014 at 11:41 PM ^
First time going to Roo here, beyond excited! Who are you looking forward to seeing?
Beale street is awesome, though I've only been able to visit once. It allows drinking on the street and has beer vendors out on the street like New Orleans, and has high quality live music like Nashville (and blues is a genre I enjoy, unlike country). Of course the scale is much smaller than those other towns, but still fun times to be had!
I am going to a Wolfmother concert in Chicago next week. Those guys sort of fell off the map, but I'm interested to hear that Sabbath-esque sound live in a smaller venue (saw Sabbath at Lollapalooza).
I'd like to see Jack White when he comes here, but the two nights in a row in July sold out very quickly. His new album sounds pretty sweet from the few songs I've heard.
Also would love to get back to MI and hear Beck play his new mellow stuff in Detroit.
Wanee Festival (2 weeks ago)
New Orleans Jazz Fest
Lockin Festival
Wanee and Lockin are ABB/Deadhead/Jamband based
NOLA Jazz Fest has Clapton and Springsteen among headliners, every great NOLA "local" band (if you watched the TV show Treme, 80% of the bands and performers featured on that show will be at JF), lots of blues and even a little bit of jazz.
Tons of NOLA bands that play free throughoug the summer or for covers from $5-$20. Think every offshoot of the Radiators, George Porter Jr, the Meters, Tab Benoit, and brass bands that have actually made me like brass bands.
This one already happened. I was at a corporate awards conference in February in South Beach. They usually have a top band play for the conference attendees in a private session at these things. They do a pretty good job of picking the bands. And when you are in South Beach in February, it makes it even easier to pick top bands.
They keep it a surprise as to who the band is going to be until after the awards dinner. So we have the dinner and we wait for them to announce the band. Corporations being corporations, you usually expect them to pick somebody pretty vanilla so as not to offend anybody.
There were a couple hundred of us at most, with about half of us gathered around the stage to see who was going to come out. I was expecting some glorified wedding band when out comes, two feet in front of me, . . . Imagine Dragons.
Some of the crowd were impressed, but most had no clue who it was. A mom was texting her teenage kid and sending pics of this mystery band. The kid texts back "You have no Idea how big this is!" the mom said, "Yeah, I guess she's right".
So here are a hundred or so middle-aged corporate types receiving a private concert with Imagine Dragons. They said that they usually play in an arena with 20,000 people, but this was cool since it reminded them of their days struggling to get a start playing small clubs in Vegas.
They played a fantastic set. They put everything into it as if they were playing for 20,000. Having just come off of the Grammy's and their SNL appearance, they could have gone all rock star condescending on the old folks and just gone through the motions, but they put on a phenomenal performance. Then they even played a couple of '80s cover tunes for the people unfamiliar with their music.
Never met a cooler bunch of "rock stars" who haven't forgotten where they came from.
None, Weird Al isn't touring this summer. :(
I have a small child, so unless the concert is a live performance in Buy Buy Baby I'm going to miss out this summer.
April 29th, 2014 at 10:09 AM ^
New York Philharmonic
April 29th, 2014 at 11:06 AM ^
My son (trumpet) playing his final 6th grade concert.
Cake at Hill auditorium in June.
Trombone Shorty at Power Center in June.
My son (trumpet) playing his end of camp concert for Blue Lake Jazz Camp.
My cover band, a couple friends bands, and my family band playing all manner of fun stuff at my annual Pig Roast.
The family band (Myself on upright bass, my wife on drums, my 12yo son on trumpet, and my 9yo son on piano) are planning on doing "Cantaloupe Island" by Herbie Hancock and "Inside Straight" by Cannonball Adderley.
April 29th, 2014 at 11:20 AM ^
First day has Eminem, Artic Monkeys and the Kooks. I'm going with my kids and then we are driving back that night to catch Man U vs Real Madrid at the Big House the next day. Life is good : )
April 29th, 2014 at 12:59 PM ^
Jay Farrar (of Son Volt and, previously, Uncle Tupelo) solo show @ The Southern in Charlottesville, VA - with my son.