Concert Season

So many shows are coming up. It seems like it's going to be a better year than last for shows. There are some big tours happening and I'm hopeful to see more than last year. One addition to the bands I'm a fan of is a band my roommate considers his favorite...Live. I know Live had a few decent songs, but I'm not a post grunge type of guy. My roommate is a dozen years younger than I so it's his era. I'm going to go, though. He just received the tickets yesterday for the show on May 17th in Kansas City. I did sing a couple of their songs when performing with the band Weatherhead from KC. Live isn't bad so it will be interesting to see if this show makes me a bigger fan like Nine Inch Nails did.

I also have one major disappointment this year. The Poison tour is going to be in KC on July 22. It's great that it's on a Saturday night, but I'm spending that weekend with my family over on the St. Louis side of Mizzou and I will be at Journey/Def Leppard with my daughters on the 21st. I can't see having time to slip away on Saturday to go to KC for this show. I wish it was the following weekend or something. So if I'm going to miss that show, which I haven't since the tours started back up several years ago, then I'm going to try to see Poison 3 times the opening week of the tour. They will be at Steamboat Days in Burlington, here in Des Moines on June 17th, and in Sioux Falls on the 18th. Yes, that's one end of the state to the other for Poison. I've seen them twice on a tour the last tour they did before opening for Kiss, but this wll be the first year I've seen them 3 times on one tour. Now if I can just pull that off...


I'm very much looking forward to Waterstock this year and I'm going to get a top tier ticket, if I can, to run around backstage. Lazer didn't provide an autograph tent last year so I'm glad to have gotten the signatures and pictures that I did. This year, I hope to get them all and meet each member of Poison, if possible.

I'm surprised the Journey/Def Leppard tour isn't coming to Iowa, but thankful that I can take my girls to the show in St. Louis. That will be fun even if we are sitting on the lawn.

You'll see the reviews of each show I hit and all the pictures fit to print. Keep checking back as I should have reviews of Jackyl and Firehouse up this weekend.