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Posted on 5/24/2012
Memphis In May Beale Street Music Festival - From the Photo Pit
Concert Blast returned to Day Two of the Memphis in May Beale Street Music Festival. The team of Mike Arnold, Tom Thompson, and our stand in photographer/helper, Steve Shattuck continued the podcast coverage for Saturday.
Saturday’s podcast festivities included performances from Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Buddy Guy, The Cult, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Al Green, and Jane’s Addiction.
Not only does this podcast include performance clips and our commentary of the performances, but Mike also enjoyed talking with some of the fans in attendance as well as a conversation with the phenomenal blues/rock guitarist, Kenny Wayne Shepherd. Enjoy the blog and podcast review!
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Posted on 5/21/2012
Memphis in May Beale Street Music Festival 5-5-2012 - The Fans
Here’s day number two on the Memphis in May Beale Street Music Festival photo coverage of our annual event. We continue to bring you more pictures from our fun without our expert photographer, Brian Hasbrook. Brian had a previous engagement so Mike and Tom borrowed a camera and brought along Steve Shattuck to help them with the photography duties.
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Posted on 5/14/2012
Concert Blast returned to Memphis, TN to cover the Memphis in May Beale Street Music Festival once again. This time the team consisted of Mike Arnold, Tom Thompson, and our stand in photographer and helper, Steve Shattuck.
Friday’s festivities included performances from Vol Beat, NeedToBreathe, Florence & the Machine, Megadeth, Evanescence, and Johnny Winter. Not only does this podcast include the performance clips and our commentary of the performances, but Mike also enjoyed talking with some of the fans in attendance. Enjoy the blog and podcast review!
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Memphis in May Beale Street Music Festival - Friday May 4 2012
Posted on 5/12/2012
Every year Concert Blast is invited to cover the Memphis in May Beale Street Music Festival and every year the guys look forward to attending the annual event. This year was the year that Concert Blast didn’t have their professional photographer Brian Hasbrook with them. Brian had a previous engagement so Mike and Tom borrowed a camera and brought along Steve Shattuck to help them with the photography duties.
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Posted on 3/28/2012
George Thorogood and the Destoyers In Concert - Nashville, TN - Wildhorse Saloon - 3-20-2012
George Thorogood and the Destroyers returned to Nashville, TN to perform at the Sold-Out Wildhorse Saloon. Nashville classic rock radio station 105.9 The Rock presented this show and they did their job well. When the doors opened, there were only 90 tickets left and before the opening act was finished, the show was completely Sold-Out, which made for a great show!
Concert Blast was invited to review this concert so Mike Arnold, Tom Thompson, and old Concert Blast friend, Michael Fulghum, gave their thoughts on the review during this audio podcast.
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Posted on 2/18/2012
Rick Springfield In Concert - Wildhorse Saloon - Nashville, TN
Concert Blast began the 2012 concert review podcasts in style with the annual party that Rick Springfield puts on in Nashville, TN every year around Valentine’s Day weekend. This year was no different than the others. Another explosive party provided by the rocker who refuses to allow his age prevent him from thrilling Rock and Roll audiences all over the world.
Concert Blast produced a podcast with Mike Arnold, Tom Thompson, James Downing, and many Rick Springfield fans in attendance who were more than happy to join in for this show!
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Posted on 2/10/2012
Happy Valentine’s Day from the guys at Concert Blast. Here’s a hilarious podcast on L-O-V-E. When we came up with the idea of a Music Discussion podcast on LOVE, we decided to release it on Valentine’s Day in 2008. Here we are in 2012 with Valentine’s Day being only a few days away, we thought what a great time to re-post one of our most popular Music Discussions. Enjoy our Concert Blast Valentine’s Day Special with Mike Arnold, Brian Hasbrook, and Tom Thompson!
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Posted on 1/17/2012
We felt Concert Blast had a successful year in 2011 with our stats and the experiences we were very blessed to encounter. We will have a series of Concert Blast Blogs from each of us that is dedicated to 2011 as Mike Arnold, James Downing, and Tom Thompson remember their favorite times covering events for Concert Blast.
This Blog is Tom Thompson’s Concert Blast Favorites from 2011.
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Posted 1/13/2012
The year of 2011 is now in the history books. Concert Blast had another successful year of improving our stats from the previous year. We want to thank everyone who has ever downloaded/listened to our podcasts, read our blogs, and looked at our photos. Let’s make 2012 even a bigger and better year! With having 292,785 downloads of our podcasts in 2011, we devote this blog to our various Top 10 Stats from 2011.
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Posted on 12/18/2011
The Crowd - Nashville's Party Rock Band
On Friday December 9th 2011 something happened at a music club in Nashville, TN that members of the party rock band from the 80’s, The Crowd, thought would never happen… a reunion show!
Two members of the Concert Blast team, Mike Arnold and Tom Thompson, were part of the rock band that began performing cover songs at parties in the early 1980s, decided to write and record a few original songs, had those originals played on the radio and began thrilling crowds at the private parties, rock clubs, colleges, and music festivals. Now in 2011 the guys returned to a rock music club in Nashville, TN, Douglas Corner Café, to perform a reunion show to celebrate their first gig from 30 years ago. Also joining the reunion on stage was Tom’s twin brother and bassist of the band, Jim Thompson, the latest lead guitarist, Gary Conn, and the original lead guitarist, Dwayne Smith.
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