Summer Concert Plans Getting Set

Are your summer concert plans shaping up yet? Mine are. In addition to seeing Metallica next month, I am also now going to an Ohio stop on Shinedown's current run in early May. Also cool is that Beartooth is the support for Shinedown.

I wasn't really planning on attending this tour, but Eric is obsessed with the band and he loves Beartooth too. He wouldn't even know of Beartooth without me, but I digress.

Anyway, we got pretty good seats for Shinedown and the band just released a new video yesterday for their song "Dance, Kid, Dance." The clip is below.

I want to go to the Doobie Brothers in early September but I am holding on buying those tickets. I figure I can get a deal on those since it is several months away still. There's also a few other shows I am keeping my eye on like Live/Collective Soul/Our Lady Peace, Bachman Turner Overdrive, Alison Krauss and Union Station (!) and so many more. I just wish shows weren't so incredibly expensive - it just isn't possible to go to them all anymore. Fees for the Shinedown show added almost another hundred bucks to the tickets and we won't even talk about Metallica.

Let me know who you are planning to see live in the comments.

Comments

[Him]

Slim pickings in my little neck of the tent world. Might see Frampton at an outdoor amphitheater in June. Might see DLR at a bougie winery in Sept.

Finding it harder and harder to get enthusiastic about spending more and more to see bands. I'm just thankful I got to see WASP last December. For all the backing tracks (and there were backing tracks) it was still a lovely hit of nostalgia. And Armored Saint were great (from what little I got to see).

Then again, I got to go to South Korea last month. And I am maybe going to Sicily in Sept. So, really, I can't complain. And, while I can't bring my vinyl with me, I can certainly bring my DAP (the HIDIZS AP80 Pro-X was a revelation when I bought it a few years ago) with me on my other assorted summer travels.

Hope others are looking forward to a better summer of concerts. And hope everyone is doing well.

Time to get back to my camping spot. I think some angry raccoons are trying to steal my salt pork!

[stu]

i’m with him, it’s hard to justify spending more money each time to see a band again, and again. that said, the only two definite shows for me this summer are l.a. guns and weird al. well, my home town has a free summer concert series that i hit up on thursdays which includes everclear, lisa loeb, steven adler, pam tillis & stp this season. but being able to walk to a show makes it hard to count as a concert.