I go to a local blues jam every Sunday to hear some local talent, but in April Iām travelling to Florida for the annual Tampa Bay Blues Festival. Iāll be there to see Walter Trout and Christone āKingfishā Ingram.
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He is a good musician, I would enjoy seeing him.
Always a good show.
How cool is that? I remember you talking about that in another thread. A blues festival would be fun weekend.
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I like Jeff Lynne!
The band I would really, really like to see is the Travelling Wilburysā¦ I guess Iāll have to wait to get tickets until Iām ready for the āGreat Stage Beyond the Cloudsāā¦ either that stage or the āFire Down Belowā!!! 
Tod
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Yes, that Jeff Lynne. Heās a prolific songwriter, in addition to writing most of ELOs output he has written hits for many other artists including Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, Dave Edmunds, the Pussycat Dolls, and Agnetha FƤltskog (the blonde out of Abba)
If you want to dip into ELO, check out āOut of the Blueā and āA New World Recordā. If youāre ever feeling down, put on the track Mr Blue Sky, it never fails to put a smile on my face 
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@Ontime dude!!! We would be concert buddies looking at your lineup.
I did Warped in 99. Would be cool to do it again.
I have tickets to Greenday when they tour in Aus soon.
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Iāve noticed my tastes in music have become much more eclectic since I started learning guitar seriously. I think the more you learn to make music, the more you appreciate good music regardless of genre or style.
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Just just did a deep dive into his top 30 songs and I recognised a bunch. I was around people like that in the 70s for a fair amount of time.
These are the song I recocognised immediately and even knew many lyrics. So crazy.
1974 Canāt Get It Out of My Head
1975 Evil Woman
1976 Strange Magic
1976 Livinā Thing
1977 Do Ya
1977 Telephone Line
1977 Turn to Stone
1978 Mr. Blue Sky
1979 Donāt Bring Me Down
1980 Xanadu
1980 All Over the World
1980 Donāt Walk Away
1981 Hold On Tight
1981 Twilight
By this time I was no longer under my moms musical influences and taking my own steps.
Great thread
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Oh sweet, I went to the 1996 tour at crissy field in SanFran, it was killer. I have a number of the warp tour CDs still from back then. The warp shows were so good in the 90s. Skating and demos all the good stuff was part of the show.
Edit. You are stoked you caught a show back then. Probobly the best ones were in the 90s. I lost track after 2000 unfortunatly. We left the states for a while. There was good stuff still though after.
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I dig green day. They are from Pinal California. Right off I-80 coming down from the Sierras into Sanfransisco. They would come up to Tahoe and snowboard and do small shows before they were big.
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Hey Jason!
Looking at your song list really takes me back - I graduated high school in 1980 & so these hits were literally what was ON the radio back thenā¦ growing up in Albuquerque, New Mexico there was AM but only one FM radio station. The FM station played album rock - literally side A or B played all at once of acts like Zepplin, The Moody Blues, Hendrixā¦ stuff the Pop radio stations didnāt play. They were all playing ELO, Beach Boys, ABBA, Olivia Newton-John etc. - the Pop acts of the day. AM was what we had for the most part (along with 8-tracks) and the songs in your list were so, so, so overplayed!!!
<On a related note - Iām pretty sure that I could sing along to each and every one of these with pretty much no lyrical mistakesā¦ even the ones I couldnāt stand back in the day!!!>
Got off track a bit there, point being, Jeff Lynne was on of those underappreciated musicians who really exerted a lot of influence ābehind the scenesā!
Tod
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Great topic. In our area we often win tickets for events coming up and donāt know in advance. In 2024 I saw more concerts than my whole life combined. Green Day, Rancid, smashing pumpkins, The Rolling Stones, Pink, Sheryl Crow, Alice Cooper, Def Leppard, Steve miller band, penny wise l, The Offspring, third eye blind, yellow card, sublime. train, Santana, Chicago, smashmouth, vanilla ice, new kids on the block, Willie Nelson, Bob Segar, TLC, Lenny Kravitz are the ones I recall. I only paid money for one of those concerts. I also saw Billy Joel, axel Rose, John Legend, and Skipknot while working security for them in Los Angeles. Kinda cool to walk Billy Joel to his limo after the show. If the list is 1/4 as long in 2025 it will be great.
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I pictured this for some reason. 
Bro you saw more shows than I did. Thatās way cool, of course living in the city of angels alows you to see everyone you want. You really saw some great acts. We almost went down to San Padro for the Punk in Drublik festival and final weekend show of NOFX last October but it just didnt happen. We already saw them when they passed through AZ and I was nursing am injury. We go over there a lot, usually a little south, but Its not far for us and we like to ride it up.
Thats probably why I knew them. My mom, Aunt and their friends loved and played all that stuff. They party constantly and were always making music. My mom was in that whole California scene during much of the 70s.
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Iāve got a few concerts lined up already:
- February: there was a Hungarian band called Hobo Blues Band who started out in the late 1970s. Their singer (using Hobo as a stage name) will turn 80 this year and there will be a concert to mark the occasion.
- March: 2 concerts in Vienna. One of them is a classical piano recital by Alice Sara Ott at Wiener Konzerthaus. The other one is a jazz club date by bassist Dave Holland and guitarist Lionel Loueke.
Iām planning to go to a few more but havenāt made my mind up about them yet:
- Hungarian saxophone player MihƔly Dresch will have a big concert in May reuniting several groups he played with in the past 30 odd years.
- Another Hungarian musician, GƔbor Presser will have a stadium gig in October.
- In October and November, Marcus Miller, Richard Bona and Charles Lloyd will play concerts.
Carlos Santana and Guns n Roses will also make an appearance, but I doubt Iāll see either of them (tickets are somewhat expensive).
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Thatās really funny. The job usually is not as dramatic is Liam Neeson, but the basics from the start of the movie is like that, except Billy Joel draws more of a mellow crowd. Punk in the park in SAN Diego with the offspring had an insane mosh pit and I still have some battle scars from trying to rescue people and control the crowd . Iām not supposed to beat the crap out of people but I tackle them sometimes. Thatās just my second job. I was at the holiday bowl and rose bowl the past week and tomorrow is monster jam with the 4x4 trucks. It doesnāt pay a lot but gets me out to meet celebrities and see events while getting paid. I remember Axel Rose at Billy Joel doing live and let die, but right before that my coworker was like who is that obnoxious drunk guy walking around acting crazy. Havenāt you heard of GnRā¦ oh snap thatās him haha.
Anyway hope you get the chance to come out and see a good band in Southern California. We have crazy people sometimes. After punk in the park there were about 200 people I tried chasing out with one shoe each and a lost cell phone after crowd surfing.
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Itās like to see a blues guitar concert but there are none in my city. They only offer classical guitar concert. 
One thing I loved about the Green Day concert was he didnāt stop playing like at all except one small moment he broke up a fight in the mosh pit. Billie Joe was like hey you want to be here donāt you, well stop that now. After that it was song after song. I was sitting near the Padres dugout at Petco Park. Youāll love that show.
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Mathieu, I donāt know how far you live from Montreal, but the Montreal Blues Society might be able to point you in the right direction. Since Iāve never been to Quebec, this is just secondhand online info.
Iāll have to admit that the last blues concert that I have attended live was in 2001 in Raleigh, NC.and have the concert T-shirt to prove it:
I noticed that the only Canadian stop on that tour in 2001 was Toronto 
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I would love to see Santana
Aw man, we were so close to going. Things have been so crazy for us these last few months. Actually this whole year but since summer has been super tough. We moved, major family crises. I was suposed to have surgery but didnt. Our lives have been nuts.
The bands were cool this year also. I also really wanted to go to try and get the poster. The art was so cool this year. The family truckster. Haha
Haha he is a hooligan
Edit: Street Light Manifesto is an Amazing band. I suggest everyone listen to them.
Wow! Want to swap lives? 
@SteveL_G99 Interesting information Steve, thanks ! I live pretty far from it, but I saw on their website that they have a radio podcast so that can be interesting 
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