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Dust In The Wind - The Book
One of classic rock’s most instantly recognizable and enduring songs, ‘Dust in the Wind,’ will celebrate its 35th anniversary in 2012. As part of the celebration for this one-of-a-kind tune (penned by Kerry Livgren and first recorded by the band KANSAS), a 35th anniversary limited edition gift book is being released.
AliceCooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare
Written by James Downing
Alice Cooper is back…..with a vengeance. Over 30 years after the original “Welcome To My Nightmare” album, “Ole Black Eyes” has released his latest and in my opinion, his best album in many years.
Concert Blast wanted to honor the ones whose lives where changed forever because terrorist wanted to destroy America no matter what it took. Even if it meant losing their own lives! This blog is written by Mike Arnold, James Downing, and Tom Thompson on what three different normal Americans, located over 900 miles away from this horrible incident, were going through during this terrible time in American History.
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Big Bad Voodoo Daddy In Concert - Nashville, TN
Written by James Downing
The cool thing about being involved with Concert Blast is getting the opportunity to see a lot of bands that I have never seen before. One of those opportunities happened in June. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy was playing in Nashville at the Wildhorse Saloon. I have listened to them on occasion but my son, Julian, is a huge fan. He has several of their cds and I hear him listening to them all the time. It was close to his birthday so when I got the chance to attend the show for a review I brought him along too.
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Written by Mike Arnold
My wife Sandra and I were married in 1979 and lived in Madison, TN, a suburb of Nashville. In those days cable television weren’t available in our area, although if it were, we couldn’t afford it anyway. Heck, we didn’t even have a telephone during most of the first year of our marriage and we definitely didn’t go out to eat. There were times we would save up $15 or $20 to go to a concert (yes that was the price for two tickets in those days). Our entertainment mainly consisted of walking to the little league baseball field behind our apartment to watch the kids play (and the parents scream!) or visit friends to play board games and play music. TV really wasn’t our main source of entertainment and you could tell it by the 13 inch black and white television we owned.
Multi-platinum rock band STYX joins forces with the world’s most quintessential prog-rock band YES for a summer tour extravaganza. These two monster rock bands will embark on the 22-city “Progressive U.S. Tour” starting July 4th and concluding August 3rd in Mountain View, CA. Tickets will go on sale starting the weekend of April 8th.
ZZ Top In Concert - Nashville, TN - Dusty Hill and Billy Gibbons
Written by James Downing
When I was 15 years old my dad got me a job riding in an 18 wheeler on a route with a guy and helping him unload boxes at each of his stops in Tennessee and Kentucky. One thing made me excited about this job was that the truck driver had 2 boxes of eight track tapes that he carried with him on his route each day. I could not wait to see what he had in the box. The first morning of the job I asked if I could look at his tapes. When I opened the first box he reached over and pulled out a tape and said something like “Let’s go down to Texas.” I told him I had better call my parents if we were going to Texas because they just thought that we were going to Kentucky. He laughed and said “No man, this is ‘That Little Ole Band From Texas’ ZZ Top, you ever heard them?” I told him no as he pushed the tape into the player and the first song that played was “Just Got Paid” I was a fan after that first song. After that day I listened to the local FM station and heard a lot of songs by ZZ Top and found out they were very popular. I went to several of their shows and loved their music more with each album.
4FINI, Inc., producers of the wildly successful Vans Warped Tour, the longest running traveling music and extreme sports festival in the world today, now brings to you, Willie Nelson’s Country Throwdown Tour 2011 kicking off in Philadelphia, PA on May 27 and going out with a bang with Willie’s Picnic in Fort Worth, TX on July 4.
The second annual 24-city outdoor amphitheater trek will feature a diverse lineup including recording artists Willie Nelson, Jamey Johnson, Randy Houser, Lee Brice, Brantley Gilbert, Craig Campbell, Lukas Nelson & the Promise of the Real and Drake White, with the addition of Jack Ingram 6/30-7/4.
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Winter Jam 2011 Nashville, TN
Mike Arnold and Brian Hasbrook of Concert Blast were on hand at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, TN to enjoy and review the Winter Jam 2011 concert. This was a night of various styles of Contemporary Christian music and Mike and Brian loved this evening. With ten acts performing short sets of their new and popular tunes. The acts on the Nashville tour stop were; Newsboys, Kutless, David Crowder Band, Francesca Battistelli, Newsong, Red, Sidewalk Prophets, Chris August, Jason Castro, and several guest appearances from Christian Rapper, KJ52. Continue Reading…
Written by Josh Jackson
For the second year in a row I was invited to work as the script supervisor for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions and of course, I obliged. I always love hearing my friends tell me to make sure to tell someone to induct __________ (insert favorite rock group) into the Hall. (Usually KISS or RUSH) I’m not sure exactly how the nominations go about, and while I have my own feelings about some of the great groups that have been left out (Eagles, Heart, Journey & oh so many more), I was fairly satisfied with this years group of inductees.
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