Summer Concert Plans Getting Set

Are your summer concert plans shaping up yet? Mine are. In addition to seeing Metallica next month, I am also now going to an Ohio stop on Shinedown's current run in early May. Also cool is that Beartooth is the support for Shinedown.

I wasn't really planning on attending this tour, but Eric is obsessed with the band and he loves Beartooth too. He wouldn't even know of Beartooth without me, but I digress.

Anyway, we got pretty good seats for Shinedown and the band just released a new video yesterday for their song "Dance, Kid, Dance." The clip is below.

I want to go to the Doobie Brothers in early September but I am holding on buying those tickets. I figure I can get a deal on those since it is several months away still. There's also a few other shows I am keeping my eye on like Live/Collective Soul/Our Lady Peace, Bachman Turner Overdrive, Alison Krauss and Union Station (!) and so many more. I just wish shows weren't so incredibly expensive - it just isn't possible to go to them all anymore. Fees for the Shinedown show added almost another hundred bucks to the tickets and we won't even talk about Metallica.

Let me know who you are planning to see live in the comments.

I Thought This Was Nu Bon Jovi

Picture it: Ohio, the CVS counter.

I'm standing in line and waiting for my scripts and I start paying attention to the music playing. It sounds oddly like Jon Bon Jovi's voice... but not quite. I kept trying to discern just who or what is playing... and I finally Googled the lyrics. Turns out, I was listening to Shinedown's "Daylight." I'm telling you the song went from country, to Bon Jovi to nu metal for me without any context. As soon as I knew I was hearing a Shinedown track, it all made sense, but man, "Daylight" is far from The Sound of Madness.

"Daylight" is from the 2022 album Planet Zero. The song isn't really played on Octane, hence why I wasn't able to place it. Oh well, happy Saturday to all!