The Red Hot Chili Peppers Return to San Diego

The Red Hot Chili Peppers perform in San Diego for another sold out performance at The Valley View Casino Center. The band was up to their usual antics of jumping around the stage and getting great crowd interaction. I got to interview Flea pre-show and I must say his brand of sarcasm is right up my alley. It turns out we were both surfing the same beach before the show. This show was re-scheduled from several months ago as Anthony Kiedis broke his leg. The setlist was great as they played a little bit off every one of their albums including the songs "Otherside, Under the Bridge, Around the World, Sir Psycho Sexy, By the Way." The sound quality was very good for an arena show and their stage setup was impeccable with several large monitors playing real time band videos.

Images by Doug Siegel
www.dougsiegelphotography.carbonmade.com

91X Wrex the Halls in San Diego featuring Social Distortion, Death Cab, Florence and Many More.

91X Wrex the Halls had a myriad of great performers including Run DMC, Blink 182, Social Distortion, Death Cab, Florence + Machine, Noel Gallagher, Switchfoot, Everlast, Pennywise, Cage the Elephant, Airborne Toxic, Naked and Famous, and Mutemath. The event spanded the evenings of December 10th and 11th at The Valley View Casino Center in San Diego, California. There was a great sense of community as most of the bands checked out each other from the stage side and conversed while waiting to play their set. The 12 bands only had hour long sets so they played their strongest songs to have a very full night of great rock and roll.

Please see the following link for more photos from the fest:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/doug_siegel_photography/sets/72157628395205633/

Photos by Doug Siegel

Please note some bands are not included due to release: