Phil Lesh
(I’ve marked the Shoreline gig on my calendar. Maybe, I’ll do the Forum gig as well. Wanna carpool? Here’s the official tour release:)
Happy New Year, everybody!! Hope and change are in the air! So what better way to kick off 2009 than to confirm what’s been buzzing in the rumor mill for some time: [...]
By Jim Harrington
It’s hard to be too critical about a seven-hour concert that was filled, from start to finish, with fairly solid performances – especially when the event benefits a worthy cause.
Yet, there was definitely something missing from Saturday’s Bridge School Benefit at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View. That something was, for lack of [...]
By Jim Harrington
The gal dressed in a parrot costume did not look out of place.
Indeed, she fit in nicely next to the dudes wearing shark fins on their heads, the guys with cheeseburger hats and the ladies in hula skirts and bikini tops. All of those outfits, as well as an assortment of pirates’ garb [...]
Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008
Shoreline Amphitheatre at Mountain View, CA
1, Homemade Music
2, License To Chill (featuring Sonny Landreth)
3, Fruitcakes
4, Pencil Thin Mustache
5, Miss You So Badly
6, It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere
7, Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes (Hawaiian version)
8, Mexico
9, The Tiki Bar Is Open
10, Come Monday
11, Cheeseburger In Paradise
12, Brown Eyed Girl
13, One Particular Harbour
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I’m a big fan of the Bridge School concerts, and I’m sad to say this is a big blow to the event. ZZ Top might not have been the biggest draw (Jack Johnson and Norah Jones, arguably, are bigger to the general public), but they were the biggest curiousity factor in the bunch. People were [...]
Official press release as follows:
San Francisco, CA (October 14, 2008) – Fresh off their stellar performance at Austin City Limits, Band of Horses has just been added to the Saturday, October 25th lineup for the 22nd annual Bridge School Benefit concerts at Shoreline Amphitheatre. Tickets for both Bridge School Benefit performances are currently on [...]
New Kids on the Block:
The legendary boy band has reunited for a major tour, 8 p.m., Oct. 10, HP Pavilion, San Jose, $35-$75, 925-685-TIXS, 415-421-TIXS, 510-625-TIXS, www.hppsj.com.
Randy Jackson Presents America’s Best Dance Crew Tour:
“American Idol” judge cashes in on dance craze, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 11, Paramount, Oakland, $42.50-$57.50, 510-465-6400, www.paramounttheatre.com.
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By Jim Harrington
The hot-and-heavy concert schedule might end with the summer months in some parts of the country _ but not in the Bay Area. So, get set for another sensational week of live music, and other types of artistic fun, by the Bay:
1, Carlos Santana
Some years back, my colleague Tony Hick and I came [...]
Journey, Heart, Cheap Trick:
Three times the classic-rock fun, 7:30 p.m., Sept. 27, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, $29.50-$125,925-685-TIXS, 415-421-TIXS, 510-625-TIXS, www.ticketmaster.com.
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By Jim Harrington
The triple bill of classic rockers Journey, Heart and Cheap Trick is arguably the least hip tour of the year.
In order to attend the bands’ show Wednesday night at the Sleep Train Pavilion in Concord, I basically had to refund all the cool-music-guy points I’ve scored by going to the last 10 Noise [...]
