Archive for the 'Live Shows' Category


Paul McCartney At The Capitol Congress

You can see all the stars as you walk down Hollywood Boulevard Some that you recognize, some that you’ve hardly even heard of “Celluloid Heroes” The Kinks Paul McCartney did not write that, but he did cowrite one of the Stones’ very first hits, “I Wanna Be Your Man,” and Marc Maron started off asking […]

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo At The Ace

It was astounding. If you want to know what it was like in ’68, if you want to steep yourself in the concert experience from way back when, go to this show. First and foremost it was in a theatre. Hard to believe, but the acts lamented the move to arenas at first, because of […]

Sunsoaked

But most of all, I wanna have some FUN! We self-satisfied baby boomers think we know it all, lived through the best era, that nothing can compete, so we might as well just stay home and marinate in our glorious feelings. I was literally the oldest guy there. I saw one dude who was in […]

Stars Align At FivePoint Amphitheatre

It was like the Fillmore. Only it happened at a hellhole in the middle of nowhere. Actually, not a hellhole, that’s the amphitheatre in Glen Helen, which I last went to when it sported the moniker “Blockbuster,” it would be best if they both disappeared. The shed began with Tanglewood, but a few decades back […]