“The audience sitting down is a weird trip. It’s like seperatnous (sic), but when they’re dancing, they’re doing it with you, like you said it and they’ve got it and you can play freer and freer.” – Janis Joplin
This is why we dance at concerts.
Alabama Shakes
The first concert of the year was in Bend, Oregon with Alabama Shakes. If you’re going to do a concert summer, there is no better way to go than starting with Grammy winning Alabama Shakes. Robert had signed up for the newsletter from Bend Concerts when he bought tickets to Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals. […]
Bueno Vista Social Club
Ok, we give up. Yet again, people sat around while on stage some 80+ year old musicians are performing Cuban music. Music designed for dancing and everyone sits. How can anyone have fun when you just sit and listen to music for dancing? When people just sit, the concert stops being fun and becomes nothing […]
Eric Burdon
In the early ’70’s, Eric Burdon and War came to the Rogue Valley. At the time Robert was the afternoon disc jockey for KBOY-AM radio (730 on the dial back then) and had the pleasure of interviewing them. Now, forty years later and back with the Animals, Eric Burdon will be playing at Britt Music […]
Gipsy Kings 2016
Un-Bloody Believable! Picture this: a lively, animated, enthusiastic band playing exciting music of Spanish origin, looking out over an audience sitting on their asses. Adding insult to injury, one woman FELL ASLEEP! And, considering the band encouraged people to clap, stand, and dance on FOUR OCCASIONS, it is a tribute to their love of music […]
Ben Harper
We left home for Bend and drove our usual route: 62 to 238 to 97 and finally to 20 and Tumalo State Park campground. It was the usual, uneventful trip. Except for two morons (and that’s the nicest we can say) in their big-honkin’ SUV’s decided to pass four or five vehicles (of which we […]
Tedeschi Trucks Band
The Tedeschi Trucks Band is one of the best bands out there today and when Britt announced they were coming, we had to go. And we’re glad we did! We had purchased their latest album, but found it lacking energy, so we were a little hesitant about the live performance. We shouldn’t have been; our […]
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
How about them Dirt Brothers? – Maybelle Carter The NGDB brought our summer of concerts to a close with yet another audience sit-down fest. Granted, “old time music” dancing requires some space, but foot stompin’ and clapping don’t require much. Two people stood and clapped (not us this time), but when we left towards the […]
John Mellencamp
Tuesday, June 6th: Weather forecast for the concert is snow/rain showers with the high only 53 and lows in the low 30’s. We will monitor the situation with the understanding that this is spring time in Oregon and you only have to wait a few minutes and the forecast and weather will have changed. And […]
Telluride
We left around 0945 heading for Laufman Campground near Milford, CA (20 miles south of Susanville). We had seen the signs on several occasion as we head north or south on Hwy 395. We took I-5 to the McCloud exit, then down to Susanville. The drive is a pleasant drive through some great countryside. And […]
Tom Petty
Tom Petty and The Lumineers The only album we own with Tom Petty is Traveling Wilburys, so he wasn’t really our reason for going to Seattle. That would be The Lumineers. We had purchased tickets for the concert and lodging in downtown Seattle way back in February sometime. Our intention was to take a couple […]
Tedeschi Trucks
We’re learning that Tedeschi Trucks Band ALWAYS puts on a great show. From the moment they take the stage to the final note, it’s rock and roll at it’s best. But the show in Albuquerque FAR surpasses anything we’ve seen and we’ve seen a bunch. THIS show was the most innovative show ever. It was […]
Gipsy Kings
Our trip down to Reno was two-fold: see the Gipsy Kings again and, best of all, visit with our friends, Steve and Barb. Steve and Robert have known each other since 1964 when they were stationed in the Air Force together at Naselle Air Force Station (now a youth camp – some things never change) […]
AWOLNation
iTunes describes the AWOLNation as “A solo project of Aaron Bruno…” who “built a kind of creative free-for-all for himself, mixing genres in a style reminiscent of Beck…”. Which is why we like the group that formed in 2009. The concert consisted of three bands, culminating with AWOLNation. The first band was Irontom, followed by […]
Sasquatch 2018
SASQUATCH IS NO MORE! 2018 WAS THE FINAL YEAR. WE ARE SOOOOOO GLAD WE WENT! Sasquatch. What can we say? It’s an experience as much as a music festival and the 2018 Sasquatch Festival at The Gorge in Quincy, Washington is no exception. We left on the 22nd of May and drove the first day […]
Jethro Tull
Charbonneau Park is a Corps of Engineers park and our first stop on our way to Jethro Tull. For some strange reason the COE, doesn’t allow booze. Maybe it’s because of the marina and huge day use area, that they don’t. Either way, that’s why we travel with a couple of colored glasses. How, you […]
Lunatics United
When we were stationed in Germany, we were introduced to a bunch of wild and crazy guys that happened to be very good musicians and became good friends and fans. Bodo played guitar, Torston on bass, Mike on drums, and Markus was the lead singer. Oddly enough, Bodo was trained as a classical guitarist and […]