I need to double up on the Wednesday Rock Blogging to get in every best concert this decade. We saw this Prince show at the Honda Center (with low expectations), but he rocked it. Not sure of the year!
Prince and Cee Lo
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Wednesday Rock Blogging
Sade
We're winding down the decade - what were the best shows we saw? We had seen Sade before but were still blown away: P.S. We were born two weeks apart.
Leon Russell
What it was like in 1971:
Chris Isaak
Chris is playing the Belly Up on December 17th, and it's sold out - tickets on the secondary market are around $200!
Jimmy McCulloch
Imagine being 22 years old and asked to play lead guitar in Paul McCartney's post-Beatles band? Then do 65 shows over the next 14 months with Wings Over America? Jimmy died on Sept. 27, 1979 of heart failure due to morphine and alcohol poisoning. He was 26 years old:
No Doubt @ Carlsbad HS
Hard to believe that there are kids graduating from Carlsbad High School that weren't born when this happened - MTV had a three-part series on it:
War
War is playing at the Belly Up next Wednesday! They were at Kaaboo last year: Multi-platinum-selling WAR, the original street band, has been sharing its timeless music and message of brotherhood and harmony for over 4 decades before millions across the globe.The long...
Georgia Satellites
More foot-stomping music from the 1980s:
Credence Clearwater Revisited
I wanted to make a special mention about the charity gig at the Belly Up next Wednesday. The Museum of Making Music opened in Carlsbad in 2000, and is a fantastic non-profit enterprise that "explores the accomplishments and impact of the music products industry...
Ric Ocasik, RIP
The Cars were the first new-wave band in my life, followed by the Pretenders. Both felt like the straight ahead rock and roll that we were used to, with a bit of a twist musically and visually. As I remember, the Cars didn't tour much in the beginning - at least not...
