Billy Idol – Las Vegas NV : August 31 2016

August 31, 2016 by Leave a Comment

What a Night!

Toni and my 25th anniversary and we came to Vegas to have some alone time. Billy Idol was playing at the House of Blues in Mandalay Bay and we had great VIP seats near the stage.

What an incredible show. We have been wanting to see Billy Idol for some time and we finally were able to in such a great venue as the House of Blues. It was small and had great sound. we were in in VIP seating close to the stage so had an incredible view of the full show.

BillY Idol, Steve Stevens and the full band put on a great show performing many great hits such as Rebel Yell, Flesh for Fantasy, Mony Mony, Dancing With Myself and White Wedding.

What a great performance.

Video of Flesh for Fantasy

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Heart/ Cheap Trick/ Joan Jett – Auburn WA : August 26th 2016

August 26, 2016 by Leave a Comment

Great line-up tonight at the White River Amphitheater with Cheap Trick opening the show, followed by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts and the closing the night was Heart.

Although I have seen all of these bands many times, it was a real treat to see them all at the same time, and they all had fairly decent sets, playing over an hour each.

They all sounded great and put on stellar performances, although I think if I had to rank them tonight, I would have to say that Joan Jett was the best, followed by Cheap Trick…It seemed as though Heart just wasn’t with it tonight with both Ann and Nancy sounding a little tired.

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Guns N’ Roses – Los Angeles CA : August 19th 2016

August 20, 2016 by Leave a Comment

The Seattle show on August 12th was so good that I had to see Guns N’ Roses again and decided go fly down to LA and see them at Dodger Stadium on Friday August 19th. In Seattle, Alice in Chains opened and last night it was The Cult. I have always liked their music and have never seen them live, so this was an extra bonus to see them along with GNR. They had a very simple stage show, but sounded incredible…as good as I remember from first hearing them in the early 90’s.

Guns N’ Roses came on about 8:20pm and played an incredible 26 song set, finishing up with 4 encores at about 11:30pm. The set was very similar to the Seattle show, however this show had a special guest drummer… Steven Adler (original GNR drummer) who performed on the songs Out Ta Get Me and My Michelle. It was a real treat to see and hear 4 original band members back together.

I stayed through the whole show this time and really glad I did as they played Sorry, Don’t Cry, The Seeker and wrapped up the show with Paradise City which was just an absolutely incredible.

Glad I made the trip down.

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Alice In Chains / Guns N’ Roses – Seattle WA : August 12 2016

August 14, 2016 by Leave a Comment

Tonights show at CenturyLink Field in Seattle has to go down as one of the best of the year. Both Toni and I agree that this was just an absolutely EPIC show.

I have neven see Alice In Chains and I guess I have forgotten how many songs I remembered and how many. There was such a great energy they had with the hometown crowd who of course knew and sang along with every song. They played a great set of 11 songs including Man in the Box, Down in Would, No Excuses and wrapped their show up with Rooster.

Guns N’ Roses came on around a quarter till nine and absolutely killed it. Toni and I have seen GNR in Vegas with Axl’s new band and we have seen Slash a few times (all were great shows in themselves) but we were so looking forward to this reunion show with Axl, Slash and Duff together again. Slash puts on such a great show and of course Slash and his guitar work is just heaven. One of my favorite parts of the show was the guitar solo with Slash and Richard Fortus performing Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here and then transitioning into the final half of Derek and the Dominos song Layla with Slash on the piano. What a masterpiece! And then Slash’s solo of the theme from Godfather transitioning into Sweet Child O’ Mine, simply perfect. All in all I think they played about 25 songs hitting every hit you could ever want to hear. Some of the other memorable songs were Welcome to the Jungle, Live and Let Die, You Could be Mine, Civil War, November Rain and Paradise City.

I am not sure how many people filled the stadium last night, but I know they were all on their feet pretty much all night for this show.

You will notice that I am only posting a few shots of the show….well that’s because I made the mistake of charging my camera on a game console which happened to go into sleep mode 15 minutes after starting charging, so my battery was dead after the first 4-5 pictures…Too bad, but the good thing is I was able to watch the whole show with my eyes instead of through my camera.

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Of Mice & Men / Marilyn Manson – Auburn WA : August 11 2016

August 14, 2016 by Leave a Comment

Another great show at the White River Amphitheater Thursday night. The line-up was Of Mice & Men, Marilyn Manson and Slipknot, so quite a heavy show. We were actually there mostly for Marilyn Manson as we have never seen him before and this was on our list of must see artists. We have seen of Mice & Men a few times and as always they put on a great show. Love their music.

Marilyn Manson definitely did not disappoint in the on stage theatrics and overall stage show. What a great stage presence, I can only imagine what it would be to meet him in person. The setlist was full of great songs such as Disposable Teens, Irresponsible Hate Anthem and closing the set was of course The Beautiful People. My favorite though was Sweet Dreams (Are Made of These) – an old Eurythmics song which he performed walking the stage on stilt.

Great show!

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