Rob Zombie, Megadeth and Lacuna Coil
Concert Report

The show took place at the Deltaplex Arena, Grand Rapids, Michigan 05-18-12.  The venue had plenty of room to move around which we liked the most.  When you watch a show and you need to get a drink or take a break you want to be able to get out easy.

This venue wasn’t bad at all it had plenty of seats and honoured handicapped people I noticed in wheelchairs.  Security was top notch maintaining control of any emergencies that would arise.

Slash, Brand New Sin, Hillbilly Herald ~ Concert Report

The hardest and most important part of putting on a good show as far as being on stage is starting the show. I look at it like jump-starting a car. The car being the crowd, and the jumper cables; the starting band.

The first band needs to have that energy that sonically grabs you by your ears and shakes you around and doesn’t let go.  Hillbilly Herald does that to the crowd and they did it to us. When you capture a crowd the way Hillbilly Herald does you can lose your worries and just get lost and listen to the pure, clean hard rock they put out; and we’re talking authentic hard rock.

Roger Waters Performs "The Wall Live" in San Diego, CA

Roger Waters, former bassist and vocalist of the legendary band, Pink Floyd, has brought his arena venue tour to San Diego. With a sold out crowd despite tickets ranging from $70 to $300, the fans are clearly awaiting this monster of a show as almost everyone is in their seats an hour before the show, including the likes of Bill Walton, Tony Hawk, Cory Feldman and San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders. There is a similar feel to the rock scene in Cameron Crowe's "Almost Famous," which was filmed at this location in San Diego. The Beatles are playing on the house sound system and then all of a sudden it begins, two sets of "The Wall Live" in its entirety. Waters then appears in his aviator sunglasses, black trench coat with suitable logos of "The Wall" emblems and says "go to the show." Too late Roger, we are already here with matching grins ready to be blown away. If this show comes to an area near you, it is not to be missed!

Review and Photos by Doug Siegel
www.dougsiegelphotography.carbonmade.com

Steve Winwood and Michael Franti start the season off right at Fontanel

By Butch Worrell
Nashville, TN

 You could not asked for a more beautiful evening for The Woods at Fontanel’s season opening show. And what a show is was.
Michael Franti captured the crowd from the get go with his rocking, funky blend of musical style’s. When Franti came down in the audience it was not that he captured the crowd, more that he became one of us, all “Human” as his guitar strap proudly proclaims. Then Steve Winwood took us a musical trip through a decades long span of his work, started with “I’m a Man” and finally ending with “Dear Mr. Fantasy”,. singing us his tune. It was one of the best evenings of music I’ve ever experienced. Set in, as Franti’s guitar player told me, “what was one of the coolest, most beautiful venue’s ever.

B&H Photo Video

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Marty Stuart tears the Franklin Theatre down!!

By Butch Worrell

That’s right! When Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives throws a party they tend to tear it up and down. So it was no surprise when they threw a CD release party for his new CD, “Nashville, Volume 1, Tear the Woodpile down” that they tore it up, down, and sideways.

                          

Quintessential guitarist Steve Kimock

Steve Kimock w/ Bernie Worrell, Wally Ingram and Reed Mathis on May 12, 2012 at Port City Music Hall in Portland, Maine 

XVSK opened for Steve Kimock and Friends this night.

 

Steve Kimock on stage with XVSK.