Do you have summer concert plans? So far I have "wants" but have not purchased tickets. I do, however, have my tickets to U2 for October :)
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AC/DC
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AC/DC will spend the month of June touring Europe, followed by 16 North American dates (July 28-September 9) then a few months' rest before playing a half dozen dates "at home" in Australia in early 2010. The set list will be a mixture of classics and new material from the 2008 Black Ice album.
Aerosmith and ZZ Top
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Aerosmith's North American tour runs from mid-June through mid-September with 41 arena gigs scheduled. The tour was originally planned to support a new album, which has been delayed by various band members' health issues. In the absence of new material, the band is looking to liven things up by performing some of their earliest albums in their entirety. It'll be North meets South as the Boston-based rockers are joined on the tour by fellow veteran arena rockers ZZ Top, self-styled "little ol' band from Texas."
Clapton & Winwood
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During the month of June, Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood will work their way from east coast to west, with a 14-date reprise of their sellout three-night stand at Madison Square Garden in 2008. The May 19 release of a two-disc (CD/DVD) set recorded during the MSG performances sets the mood. Watch video of "After Midnight" from the new release, Live From Madison Square Garden.
Def Leppard - Poison - Cheap Trick
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Def Leppard, Poison, and Cheap Trick will set out together for a late June through early September tour of 40 cities. This will be Leppard's fifth straight U.S. summer tour, and vocalist Joe Elliot hints that it may be the last one for a while. "I seriously do think that it's time for us to not do it next year," Elliot said, "because I'm a firm believer in you don't want to do it too much — people start taking you for granted."
Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp, Willie Nelson
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What could be more America's Heartland than Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp and Willie Nelson performing at (wait for it ...) minor league baseball parks. Dylan and Nelson did similar small town tours in 2004 and 2005. Between July 2 and August 15 the trio will play 22 ballpark concerts, some in cities as large as Louisville, Kentucky and Durham, North Carolina but mostly in places like Round Rock, Texas and Sevierville, Tennessee.
Fleetwood Mac
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We now join the Fleetwood Mac tour, already in progress (and continuing through June 17.) There's no new album to promote, so the set list is strictly the Mac's classics. Reversing the usual order, there's talk that the tour may be followed by a new album. Says guitarist/vocalist Lindsey Buckingham to London's VIP News, "I think maybe there was ... a sense that we would make a better album if we went out and hung out together first on the road ... maybe even sowing some seeds musically that would get us more prepared to go in the studio rather than just going in cold."
Kid Rock and Lynyrd Skynyrd
Lynyrd Skynyrd and Kid Rock, photo by Stephen Lovekin / Getty Images
Metallica
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Metallica will actually spend most of the summer on the European leg of their world tour, but from September through December will play 30 North American dates. The band are including classics, new material and rarities (their own, and some covers) -- an eclectic mix attributable to what drummer Lars Ulrich describes to Rolling Stone this way: "On this tour, for some reason, we've got this wild hair up our ass."
Styx, REO Speedwagon, .38 Special
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Styx, REO Speedwagon and .38 Special are tripling up for a 30-date tour which began May 13 in Albuquerque and ends in St. Louis on July 11. The best part? Ticket prices that will be as low as $13.50, as part of what Styx's Tommy Shaw calls "our own personal rock ‘n’ roll stimulus package."
6 comments:
I have tickets next week to an all acoustic Poco show. It's outdoors and under the stars. Rusty Young and Paul Cotton are still there. Now, there is a band who never got their due.
I got tickets for Bob Dylan/Willie Nelson. I am hoping they do a duet. That would be cool. I also have my annual Jimmy Buffet concert to attend. Fins Up!
I'm hoping to see Back Door Slam, Heart, Robin Trower, and Kiss at Summerfest this year:)
Clapton/Winwood, Fleetwood Mac, CSN, Moody Blues, Allman Bros and all the shows at Summerfest...it's gonna be another incredibly fun summer!
Well let's see. We have our tickets for Green Day and David Cook is playing in Sept and then we have Blink 182 with Weezer.
Stupid Bono Claw. They BETTER do a smaller tour.
Sorry this is late but I've been out of town all weekend!
Anywho, I'm seeing .38 Special/Styx/REO Speedwagon in a couple weeks and then at the end of June I'm seeing Clapton/Winwood! WOO!
Sure wish I could've made it to a Fleetwood Mac show, but the timing just didn't work out. :(
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