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 Tommy53 You've forgotten Couldn't Be A Fisher, who played first on Saturday, June 6. Their setlist: 1. Calum's Song; 2. Jesus Christ Almighty; 3. Wondering: 4. End Of Heaven; 5. Take Me Out; 6. Happy Song; 7. By Yourself; 8. Other Things To Be Doing; 9. Donald, Where's Your Troosers?; 10. Religion Rock am Ring 1992 Sep 26, 2022
  br54knight ***THIS SHOW DIDN'T HAPPEN BECAUSE THE VENUE CLOSED*** Chris Knight Sep 26, 2022
  br54knight ***1/5/22 WAS RESCHEDULED TO 7/14/22*** Chris Knight Sep 26, 2022
  br54knight ***CHRIS KNIGHT WAS SCHEDULED TO PERFORM BUT HAD TO CANCEL*** "MusicFest At Steamboat" / Paul Thorn / Chris Knight Sep 26, 2022
  br54knight ***CHRIS KNIGHT WAS SCHEDULED TO PERFORM BUT HAD TO CANCEL*** "MusicFest At Steamboat" / Chris Knight Sep 26, 2022
  br54knight ***2/3/22 WAS RESCHEDULED TO 5/15/22*** Chris Knight / Mic Harrison / Kevin Abernathy Sep 26, 2022
  br54knight ***2/5/22 WAS RESCHEDULED TO 6/11/22*** Chris Knight / Mic Harrison / Kevin Abernathy Sep 26, 2022
  br54knight ***2/4/22 WAS RESCHEDULED TO 3/26/22*** Chris Knight / Mic Harrison / Kevin Abernathy Sep 26, 2022
  br54knight ***2/6/22 WAS RESCHEDULED TO 3/25/22*** Chris Knight Sep 26, 2022
  br54knight ***CHRIS KNIGHT WAS SCHEDULED TO PERFORM BUT HAD TO CANCEL*** Larry Joe Taylor's Texas Music Festival Sep 26, 2022
  br54knight ***4/29/22 WAS RESCHEDULED TO 9/22/22*** Chris Knight Sep 26, 2022
 Marypier Somewhere on the setlst is "Lisa with a Z" that I remember her singing. Liza Minnelli Sep 26, 2022
 fobpurchase I was at the concert the opened with ironman Black Sabbath Sep 26, 2022
 Kiwi When Mark did his traditional pants-drop during the show, the stage was rushed and several people were pressed into the metal gate in front of the stage. This resulted in multiple injuries & those people were taken for treatment on site at Six Flags Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch / Ex-Girlfriend Sep 25, 2022
 Jeffrey Lee <b>One Not-So-Good Night Kiss</b> By Jenefer Hirshberg — The Washington Post Tuesday, December 20, 1977 Mass hysteria, usually reserved for the last few songs that climax a rock concert, raged among last night's Capital Centre crush and greeted Kiss as they appeared on stage. And appear they did, amidst flashing colored lights and minor explosives. The fusion of music and theater on stage is nothing new - remember Little Richard; and if there is a forum for outlandish overstatement, it is in the rock arena. But this is ridiculous. Kiss's two-to-three chord melodyless, lyricless music is so loudly repetitious as to be almost characterless. The character (if you'll pardon the expression) comes from their stage show, which by now is legendary with its blood-spitting, tongue-flicking and fire-spewing - yes, literal pyrotechnics. Throughout the show Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons gratuitously tossed guitar picks into the audience, and during the last number (prior to their two encores) Stanley smashed his guitar, à la Jimi Hendrix and The Who, and threw that into the audience as well, as it rained confetti over the stage. Kiss plays rock and roll with a heavy handedness that is supposed to be mistaken for energy but which has all the subtlety of a lead pipe. This perhaps accounts for the average age of their adorers. The accumulative age of the capacity crowd had to be one of the lowest ever. AC/DC / KISS Sep 25, 2022
 Kiwi Wrong set lists linked - there were 2 shows this day. https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/matt-nathanson/2022/the-kessler-theater-dallas-tx-4bb1b71a.html and https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/donovan-woods/2022/the-kessler-theater-dallas-tx-33b1a85d.html Matt Nathanson / Donovan Woods Sep 25, 2022
 Jeffrey Lee <b>A Glorious Queen, A Humble Squier</b> By Boo Browning — The Washington Post Friday, July 23, 1982 "Hot Space," the title of Queen's latest album, is as good a description as any of the sound achieved both by that band and fellow metallurgist Billy Squier. Mack, who also co-produced Squier's new "Emotions in Motion," adorned both records with his signature wide-open gaps, electrically hot to the point that one can almost hear white noise between the notes. Aside from this academic similarity and the appearance of Squier on one of Queen's tracks, there's really little comparison between Queen's highly stylized album and Squier's ambitious but lackluster performance. "Hot Space" is Queen's most mature work to date, featuring what fellow rocker Rick Derringer was moved to call "a normal Queen side and a Queen-gets-weird side." The "normal" Queen side displays the melody-making talent of Brian May at his best ("Put Out the Fire," "Las Palabras de Amour") and the hit-making instincts of John Deacon, Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor at their most acute ("Cool Cat," "Calling All Girls"). If that's not enough, there's one of the year's best Lennon tributes ("Life is Real") and a co-performance with David Bowie ("Under Pressure"). In short, there isn't a throwaway in the bunch. The "weird" side can best be described as rechauffe disco. It's as though the group were just now discovering the form, and although comparisons to 1980's "Another One Bites the Dust" are inevitable, they're mostly inaccurate, since Queen has elevated disco to a stature it never attained during its natural life. This is mesmerizing stuff, almost totally physical in its presentation; and if "Body Language" is its best representative, the rest of the side cooks and churns just as confidently, those hot spaces blowing like calculated drafts through icy-cool progressions. But it takes more than a production technique to make interesting music, and Billy Squier's "Emotions in Motion" has too much emotion and not enough motion. What was so rewarding about last year's "Don't Say No" was the combination of solid hooks and a Queen-like sound; this year, the hooks are missing and all that's left is an epic roar. "Everybody Wants You" and the title track aim for a melody line but miss by a mile. Whereas Squier's Rod Stewartish vocals are comfortable with the simple phrases of "The Stroke" and "My Kind of Lover," they get too much of a workout on songs like "In Your Eyes" and "She's a Runner," with their longer passages and stiffer melodic requirements. Next lesson, Squier should pay as much attention to Queen's songwriting skill as he has to their production style. THE RECORDS, THE SHOWS THE ALBUMS QUEEN, Hot Space (Elektra E1-60128). BILLY SQUIER, Emotions in Motion (Capitol ST- 60128). THE CONCERT: Sunday at 8 at the Capital Centre. Queen / Billy Squire Sep 25, 2022
 Jeffrey Lee <b>Nutty for Nugent: Surviving the Crush of A Night at the Centre</b> By Richard Harrington — The Washington Post Monday, July 14, 1980 "I'd risk my life for rock 'n' roll," said 16-year-old Eric Bermudez of Silver Spring. At the moment, Bermudez was in involuntary traction. So were several thousand other heavy-metal fanatics jammed together tighter than cigaretts in the Capital Center's combat zone, the area directly in front of the massive stage. It seems that half the 15,000 in attendance at last night's Ted Nugent show were crammed into a quarter of the Centre's space. "But who cares!" 19-year-old Wendy Rhodes managed to blurt out. Rhodes, whose pained expression indicated the unattainable distance of the rest rooms, agreed with her friends Nick Moarino and Mark Collins that "Up here you can really see their facial expressions." "But have 'em paint the barrier a different color," said 19-year-old Rudy Childs. Childs, who claimed it had been several minutes since his feet last touched the floor, had his shirt open and the makings of a dark blue belly from rubbing so hard against the restraining barrier. The consensus among these grimacing frontline fans was that this was the place to be. There are, in fact, three places to be and one to pass through quickly at a heavy-metal show at the Capital Centre. The first is the Largo facility's parking lot, near the cars and vans, playing tapes loudly, drinking quickly, getting the last drugs smoked or popped. Some folks even socialize. The caution zone is the actual entrance. Coming in the Liberty Bell entrance, the fans are thoroughly frisked by guards while the somewhat authoritarian recording warns that "You may be required to submit to a search of your person as a condition of entry." After picking your way through the masses of broken bottles and crushed cans and weaving past the barriers, it's hard to get anything by the guards. "A lot of people who've been here before know what's going on," said an off-duty policeman who worked door-duty, sorting prohibited items and liquor into a trashcan and drugs into a box. After scores of arrests following a Heart show at the Capital Centre in May, fans are more cautious about bringing in drugs. Once inside, things got eaiser. Last night was general admission, festival seating with no assigned places. No one is supposed to worry about finding a seat, but a weaving and weeping 16-year-old was shouting at her friend, "Paul's got my ticket . . . Oh God, I can't sit down." Several thousand fans never left the concourse until Nuget came on. For them, the concoursese around the hall was the concert. They walked, sometimes with a little help from their friends, clockwise during the show and in counter-flows during the breaks. There were a lot of new Ted Nugent T-shirts and well-worn ones from previous rock campaigns. One warned "Caution: Falling Drunk." But the combat zone was at the heart of the night. Once you were in it, you were there . If you couldn't stand the heat -- and between the stagelights and the sweltering crowds, it was hot in the zone -- you could get the ushers to help you over the barrier, but you lost your position forever. Sixteen year-old Valerie Milburn of Baltimore looked crushed, physically and spiritually, when she gave in and headed for the bleachers. Coming over the barrier she clutched three shoes in her hand. The vacuum was quickly filled. When the combat crowd raised its hands to applaud or clap along, a few more inches of air space were lost as fans pushed in from behind. A man could have had his suit pressed for nothing there. They all survived. In the course of the night, there were a few arrests, mostly for disorderly conduct. Three folks slept off whatever "it" was outside the Cap Centre's first-aid room. A few cut their feet on broken glass, a few more slipped on the steps. There was a potintially disastrous 20-minute break when the sound system's power was lost. "I guess the Capital Centre can't keep up with us," screamed Nugent when the power was finally restored. He'd just spent 20 minutes proving that he was in good shape by jumping all over the stage and posing provocatively atop a giant column of speakers. However, while he's in good shape, he's no Marcel Marceau. The Cap Centre came back to life, and Nugent went loud bananas again. That's entertainment. Scorpions / Def Leppard / Ted Nugent Sep 25, 2022
 Jeffrey Lee <b>Stewart Rocks Out</b> By Eve Zibart — The Washington Post Thursday, May 31, 1979 "What with all the disco-oriented songs," Rod Stewart said to a sold-out Capital Center crowd last night, "I think it's time to make my statement." With that, he pulled out a harmonica and ground into a bump-and-blues version of "I just Wanna Make Love to You." Stewart's recent multimillion selling work in the disco field has caused plenty of consternation among his longtime rock 'n' roll fans who saw Rod the Mod becoming the king of Studio 54. But Stewart has not defected; aside from the obvious disco numbers like "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy," Stewart's 90-minute show last night was a masterpiece of powerful, bawdy rock 'n' roll. Stewart's singing career stretches back before disco through rock and pub rocks to the blues-weighted British rock of the '60s, and last night he set out to remind the audience of that history. The song list ranged from "Sweet Little Rock 'n' Roller" to "Maggie May" and "Get Back." The hardest hitting rock piece was a medley which careened from "I'm Losing You" to "Standing in the Shadows of Love" to "Layla" and finally an exhausting drum solo by Vanilla Fudge founder Carmine Appice. Rod Stewart Sep 25, 2022
 Jeffrey Lee A loose, somewhat sloppy, no frills - rock 'n roll show without Mick Jagger to steal the spotlight. Like me, if you were there - a slice of unrepeatable history...if not - too bad for you. Go watch it on YouTube. The New Barbarians Sep 25, 2022