After swearing I was gonna pass on the Tom Petty Beacon Theater residency and even writing an entire post about how I would not be shelling out a fortune to a bandit with a website for brokered tickets in a post here, I changed my mind and went the bucks
As might be expected, a handful of classics(the “1+1” followed by “Irreplaceable” is money in the bank) and a whole lotta strutting. It starts off a little slow (she might wanna rejigger before she hits the US)
Muse are an old fashioned band with all the trappings, Matt can sing falsetto, he can get way way up there, and so, of course, Led Zep come into play. And their lyrics are like an XBox 360 come to life: resistance is futile but we will fight them in the trenches.
Last Wednesday saw the eagerly anticipated return to the stage of Fleetwood Mac, the So cal Mac, the Buckingham Nicks plus Mick plus the bluesy couple of McVies with the exception of one of the Mcvies, and, after Buckingham, the most important member of the band. Christine McVie
18 songs. 13 off Red. One cover. That leaves 2 off Fearless and 2 off Speak Now. Set length is average for Swift, 18 songs this year, 17 on the Speak Now tour, 16 songs in 2009 so yeah, that’s as expected.
It looks like just about what we thought, though we always hope for more of Dookie, and “JAR’ thrown in for good measure but, yuck “Oh love”. Please no. Still, you’ve got to have a plan got to do what’s right, right?
At the time I thought that this what it must have been like seeing Teddy Pendergrass in his prime, all those white boys claiming to be long time fans weren’t in the orchestra, it was me and thousands of screaming black women. Now, I don’t think even the great Pendergrass could’ve been this good.
