Northern Wish

Damn, it won't zoom.....

http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/41023/flowchart-what-sport-should-hockey-fans-follow

I might have a pair for sale. There are few places I hate more than a sold out Horseshoe- even for The Rheostatics.

Nassau Coliseum was never the same after April 3 1998.

Island Tour'd.

I love that they used the PBR logo.

This Barclays place sure launched with a hell of a bang. There was an interesting story in the NY Times about its ability to compete with MSG for concerts too:

"Not surprisingly, Barclays has undercut the Garden’s prices for performers, which are among the highest in the industry. Several promoters said a band stands to earn between $150,000 and $250,000 more for a sold-out show at Barclays than for one at the Garden. For concertgoers that means ticket prices for some shows will be lower at Barclays as well: Neil Young fans can buy a seat for $58 at Barclays, versus $63 at the Garden, according to Ticketmaster. Yet tickets to other big shows — the Who and Justin Bieber for instance — are roughly the same price at both places."

NY Times Article

Sorry, and now back to sports and crickets.....

Good work ersh! That was very well received by the crowd.

Good to see you on the way in too. Always travel with Joel, you can see that guy in any crowd.

How long til you, Pete, Plaskett and Clemons form some kind of supergroup? Maybe you can pick up the young Weinberg to fill it out.

In this day and age of TM apps, multiple computers, browsers and phone lines in the same house- you have to get out of the house and go to an outlet.

The further away from the show and large pockets of population also help immensely.

A location in Woodstock was good enough for me to hit on NYE tix.

Thanks for shooting and posting!

Hell yeah!

Well except for The Horseshoe part.

I also like the mention of new material.

Oh and the band took the stage to the Hockey Night in Canada theme song. Death to my Hometown took on a different perspective for me considering the hockey lockout.

I just read over on Backstreets that Bruce was sick last night.

A sick performer who still plays for 3 hours. Gotta love it!

It was solid. Not the best of the shows I've seen him play (and it should be noted that was my 4th this year so maybe I'm getting jaded), but very very good.

My fav was the opener- My Love Will Not Let You Down, which was a first timer for me. Other than that nothing really stood out. But all of that said it was a Springsteen show so it kicked ass, I was just hoping for a few tunes that I didn't get. Racing in the Streets was on the list and not played for the second show in a row. Fack!

It was really cool to buy Joel Plaskett a drink and take in a couple of songs with him!

Good to see you ever so briefly KK.

Where/ how did you get a setlist?

I will be showing up around 3:30 to grab a bracelet and try my luck. If the draw means I won't be up front, I am still going to go in early and set up near the mid floor platform. Maybe he will drink my beer this time!

If anyone has tips on a good place to park, eat and drink beforehand, I am a Hammer noob.

Concert Review: Still the Boss

By Lynn Saxberg, The Ottawa Citizen

Bruce Springsteen unleashed the full force of his rock-concert superpowers on a sold-out crowd of 19,000 people at Scotiabank Place on Friday. Once again, the rock legend and his renowned E-Street Band outdid themselves with a momentous performance that conveyed the triumphant power of rock ‘n’ roll.

Within minutes, he showed us who was boss. While the audience must have been frustrated by the stop-and-go traffic getting to the show, and long lineups to get into the venue, all was forgotten within four songs.

Under bright white lights, the 63-year-old grabbed the crowd’s attention with a riveting version of The Promised Land, cranking his electric guitar and ripping into his harmonica as the band wailed behind him. His E Street band, by the way, was augmented by some extra personnel, including a top-notch horn section and a trio of rich-voiced backup singers.

The lights went down for The Ties That Bind, but you could see the intensity in the faces on the giant video screens: everyone on stage had already worked up a sweat. The fierce No Surrender was rolled out next, ringing with piano notes and vocal harmonies as Little Stevie Van Zandt leaned in to share the microphone with his old friend.

Casting his guitar aside, Springsteen launched into Hungry Heart, although he didn’t actually have to do much singing. The crowd bellowed the song at the top of their lungs as their hero headed to the floor, shaking hands and bumping fists with fans along the way. From a satellite stage in the middle of the general admission section on the floor, Springsteen then let himself drop backwards onto the outstretched hands of fans, and surfed the crowd back to the stage.

After this impressive display of trust in his followers, Springsteen could do no wrong. He went into another stretch of musical intensity, this time touching on We Take Care of Our Own, the title track to the latest album, Wrecking Ball and the lilting Death To My Hometown.

When he came up for air, Springsteen took note of the “old faces†and “new facesâ€, both in his band and in the crowd. In what was presumably a bit of a tribute to his late saxophone player, Clarence Clemons, he spoke about ghosts as the camera panned to the face of Clemons’ nephew Jake, the band’s new sax player. .

“The older you get the more ghosts and spirits walk alongside,†he said. “When you’re old, those ghosts beome your travelling companions. They remind me when they walk side me, of the preciousness of this day and how sweet life is.â€

His words rang with truth. In Springsteen’s world, there’s no such thing as just a concert. Looking fit and ageless, he was in fine form and made the most of the night, packing in a couple of dozen songs, with a midsection of My City’s In Ruins, E-Street Shuffle, Prove it all Night and Darlington County, and a homestretch of The Rising, Badlands and an epic version of Thunder Road.

One mid-show highlight was the upbeat Waiting on a Sunny Day, when the Boss pulled a couple of youngsters out of the crowd and handed one of them the microphone as they bounced with excitement. Another lucky fan, who said she worked at Sobey’s, had her request for Queen of the Supermarket fulfilled with a solo acoustic version of the tune.

Although the bars closed at 10 p.m. and the house lights came on at 11 p.m., Springsteen and the band kept on rocking like their lives depended on it. There were more songs to deliver, and to the sheer delight of the fans, Springsteen came through with Born To Run, Glory Days, Dancing in the Dark and Tenth Avenue Freeze Out. By the end, more than three hours after it began, it was a incredible musical experience that made everyone in attendance happy to be alive.

© Copyright © The Ottawa Citizen

Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Concert+Review+Still+Boss/7419285/story.html#ixzz29qKNXLOe

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Concert+Review+Still+Boss/7419285/story.html

Nice looking set! 3 hours and 9 minutes total......

The Promised Land

The Ties That Bind

No Surrender

Hungry Heart

We Take Care of Our Own

Wrecking Ball

Death to My Hometown

My City of Ruins

Spirit in the Night

The E Street Shuffle

Jack of All Trades

Prove It All Night (with '78 Intro)

Candy's Room

Darlington County

Shackled and Drawn

Waitin' on a Sunny Day

Drive All Night (sign request)

The Rising

Badlands

Thunder Road

Encore:

Queen of the Supermarket (solo,sign,tour premiere)

We Are Alive

Born to Run

Glory Days

Dancing in the Dark

Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out

Happy birthday; Thanks for all of the links!

I'll buy you a beer in the Hammer on Sunday.

Have fun everyone- you are in for a treat!

Bouche that seat looks killer, you will be on the horns side of the stage.

A new radio spot for www.ashleymadison.com appeared this week on the Stern show. It features a hack rewrite version of New Orleans is Sinking, with the vocals being "If your marriage is sinking, Ashley Madison will help you swim."

I'm sure they got paid well for this, but it surprised me on so many levels. The first surprise is that The Hip don't seem to sell their songs here in Canada, and I thought they were generally unknown in the US so it seemed out of place. Second but most importantly the site is for people looking to step out on their spouse and The Hip are a group of family men so I just don't see how this got approved.

Everyone has their price I guess.

Anyways, nothing to see or read here really- I just found it surprising and wanted to share.

Maybe Monahan has already sown up The Hip for a Bluesfest appearance later on the tour.

Can't wait!

If you're meeting up let me know where via PM. I am going to try for the pit, but that still gives a long window during the afternoon for some football watchin.

Last night the Chargers looked foolish as Peyton looked like him old self.

How was Good Old War received?

I found the set times on this handy little website:

http://www.settimes.ca/

October 6, 2012

Budweiser Gardens

Doors:6:30 pm

Infantree:7:30 pm

Los Lobos: 8 pm

Neil Young & Crazy Horse: 9 pm

Crazy Horse unleashes the rock

As the crowd was growing anxious after the two opening acts, Neil Young and Crazy Horse took the stage in what can be described as nothing less than a rockin’ stage performance.

Sure, the packed house were there to hear the tunes they know and love and get a taste of the group’s latest album, Americana, but surely there wasn’t an eye in the audience not glued to the stage as the show opened.

Picture this: As The Beatles classic A Day in the Life filled the K-Rock Centre, a number of odd little fellows in lab coats took the stage. Fiddling with controls and directing a construction crew, the lab coat-clad men had the vintage, weathered, giant-sized road cases hoisted into the air to reveal two equally as giant Fender amp stacks, framed by two smaller Fender amps (still giant in their own right). A giant, 1950s-style radio microphone dropped from the rafters, and a huge Canadian flag became the backdrop as Neil Young, Billy Talbot, Ralph Molina and Frank “Poncho†Sampedro took the stage.

And like every almost every event in an arena, the first song that echoed through the venue as the show began was O Canada.

If that couldn’t get the crowd rockin’, I’m not sure what could.

Maybe a slick rendition of the Young song Powder Finger?

As the 1979 classic resounded from the walls, the crowd joined in, swelling the sound in gorgeous crescendo one would expect from a man and a band that have entertained crowds the world over for decades.

But it wasn’t just the classics that summoned the screams and cheers of the more than 3,000 who packed the K-Rock Centre Friday night. The song Ontario, from Americana, had the audience singing along with a brand new song, as its repetitive refrain “I was born in Ontario†struck a chord with the crowd.

A beautiful mix of young and old was not only the makeup of the audience, but also of the set list that kept classic rock ‘n’ roll ringing out through the arena.

Taking to the front and centre of the stage alone, Young’s The Needle and the Damage Done brought the audience to a still silence, apart from their singing along. Lighters and cellphones lit up the audience from the standing-room-only floor to the ceiling of the boxes.

By the end of the first hour, the smell of a joint or two lingered throughout the arena, my first time experiencing the true concert experience in the K-Rock Centre (because what great show have you seen that didn’t smell of marjiuana?) — ironic, however, given Young’s announcement just a few weeks ago that he was giving up the reefer and the bottle.

But if you thought the drugs and the alcohol were what kept Young fuelled on his rock ‘n’ roll journey some 50 years long, think again.

I’ve seen Young perform solo before, never with the absolutely killer Crazy Horse, but I’ve seen him rock out.

Friday night was all that and more.

Both opening bands fit the bill beautifully. The young, new group Infantree, a Los Angeles-based band, found their groove by their second song, and had Young and Crazy Horse fans yelling hours before the band took the stage.

Following Infantree, Los Lobos, perhaps best known for their cover of Ritchie Valens hit La Bamba (from the film of the same name), took the stage as though they’d been playing Kings­ton for years — and this was the band’s first time rockin’ the Limestone City.

Los Lobos found their grunge and blues edge, kicking off with some down-and-dirty rock ‘n’ roll before breaking into that Mexican-influenced rock that made them famous.

Still, it was Young’s iconic voice that never wavered. Clad in his plaid flannel shirt, Young had command of the audience for the entire two-hour set.

And while Young might have had control of front and centre, it was Talbot’s thumping bass and Molina’s sticks on the skins that kept the whole show packaged up, neat and tidy — if anything about rock ‘n’ roll can be considered neat and tidy.

Sure, Young has aged since he was last here in Kingston about a few years ago. But all you had to do to find out if Young is still rocking as hard as ever was look around — the crowd was loving it.

“This show is way better than when I saw Neil last time he was here,†said Sandy Walton, who took two ferry trips — one from Cape Vincent, N.Y., to Wolfe Island, and the other from the island to Kingston.

“I was kind of worried I’d be mad I’d got tickets again and travelled all this way if he was going to play folky, slow, sappy stuff. But I figured he’s with Crazy Horse. And I was right.â€

Admittedly, I missed the encores, which I am certain brought the house down, but I won’t complain. I’ve seen Young before, and I can say without a doubt I’ve never seen him rock that hard.

tori.stafford@sunmedia.ca

http://www.thewhig.com/2012/10/05/crazy-horse-unleashes-the-rock