Bruce Springsteen. High Hopes tour. Consol Energy Center, Pittsburgh PA. April 22, 2014

What can I say about Bruce that I haven't already said :)

Fun Fact: This was Blake's first "real" concert. I think I picked a good one.

Clampdown (The Clash cover, Tour Premiere w/ Tom Morello on shared vocals)
Badlands
Johnny 99
Stand On It (Tour Premiere)
Seven Nights To Rock (Moon Mullican cover)
Just Like Fire Would (The Saints cover)
Hungry Heart
I Wanna Be With You (Tour Premiere, Sign Request)
Back In Your Arms (Sign Request)
Wrecking Ball
The Promised Land
Youngstown
Lonesome Day
Mary's Place
The Ghost Of Tom Joad (w/ Tom Morello on shared vocals)
Radio Nowhere
The Rising
Land of Hope and Dreams

ENCORE
The Promise
The Wall
Born in the USA
Light of Day (w/ Joe Grushecky)
Frankie Fell in Love (w/ Joe Grushecky)
Born to Run (w/ Joe Grushecky)
Dancing in the Dark (w/ Joe Grushecky)
Tenth Avenue Freeze Out
Shout (Isley Brothers cover)

ENCORE 2
Dream Baby Dream (Suicide cover, solo on pump organ)

Billy Joel. Feb 21, 2014. Consol Energy Center, Pittsburgh

These tickets were a Christmas present to my Mom and they were worth every penny. Mr. Joel sounds as good now as he did when I saw him back in 1994.
My only regret about this show is that my Dad couldn't be there too.

SETLIST:

Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)
Pressure
All for Leyna
When I'm 64 (Beatles cover)
The Entertainer
Summer, Highland Falls
Zanzibar
And So It Goes
Allentown
My Life
Sometimes a Fantasy
Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
New York State of Mind
She's Always a Woman
Don't Ask Me Why
Captain Jack
The River of Dreams
Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
Piano Man

ENCORE:

Uptown Girl
It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
You May Be Right
Big Shot
Only the Good Die Young

Nine Inch Nails: Tension. October 8,2013. Petersen Events Center, Pittsburgh Pa

Amazing. Just amazing. This was my third nin show and I think it was my favorite.
The band sounded so tight it was divine, and as per usual it was visually stunning.

Copy of A
1,000,000
Terrible Lie
March of the Pigs
Piggy
All Time Low
Disappointed
The Frail
The Wretched
Came Back Haunted
Find My Way
Into the Void
Satellite
Survivalism
Running
A Warm Place
Somewhat Damaged
Wish
The Hand That Feeds
Head Like a Hole

Encore:
The Day The World Went Away
Even Deeper
While I'm Still Here
Black Noise 
Hurt

Fall Out Boy: May 21, 2013, Stage AE, Pittsburgh

This night will go down as one of the best shows ever. It was simply just a perfect night all around.


Thriller
I Slept With Someone in Fall Out Boy and All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me
A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More "Touch Me"
Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes
The Phoenix
This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race
Where Did the Party Go
Tell That Mick He Just Make My List of Things to Do Today
Alone Together
What a Catch, Donnie
Death Valley
Hum Hallelujah
Grand Theft Autumn/Where is Your Boy
Sugar, We're Goin' Down
Young Volcanoes
Dance Dance
I Don't Care
My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light 'Em Up)

Encore:
Save Rock and Roll
Thanks fr th Mmrs
Saturday

The Flaming Lips/The Black Keys. April 30, 2013. Consol Energy Center, Pittsburgh

Flaming Lips

Look...The Sun is Rising
The Terror
The W.A.N.D.
Virgo Self Esteem Broadcast
Silver Trembling Hands
Try to Explain
One More Robot
Sympathy 3000-21
Heroes (David Bowie cover)
Do you Realize?
Always There, In Our Hearts


The Black Keys

Howlin' For You
Next Girl
Run Right Back
Same Old Thing
Dead and Gone
Gold on the Ceiling
Thickfreakness
Girl is on my Mind
Your Touch
Little Black Submarines
Money Maker
Strange Times
Sinister Kid
Nova Baby
Ten Cent Pistol
She's Long Gone
Tighten Up
Lonely Boy

Encore:
Everlasting Light
I Got Mine

Green Day: March 31, 2013. Consol Energy Center, Pittsburgh PA

FANTASTIC SHOW! I'm so glad I jumped for the tickets. I was in love with GreenDay in highschool but never got to see them live. This was a show I have been waiting for for a long time!  A clean and sober Billie Joe Armstrong gave such a high powered show. I'm glad that we got to see him in a better place than he would have been before.

setlist:

99 Revolutions 
Know Your Enemy 
Stay the Night 
Stop When the Red Lights Flash 
Letterbomb 
Oh Love 
Holiday 
Boulevard of Broken Dreams 
Burnout 
Only of You 
Christie Road 
Disappearing Boy 
Sweet Home Alabama / Sweet Child o' Mine / Highway to Hell 
Brain Stew 
St. Jimmy 
When I Come Around 
Longview 
Basket Case 
She 
King for a Day 
Shout / Stand by Me / (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction / Hey Jude 
X-Kid 
Minority 

Encore:

American Idiot 
Jesus of Suburbia 
Brutal Love 

Billie Joe Solo Acoustic Encore:

Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) 

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: October 27, 2012. Consol Energy Center, Pittsburgh PA

Don’t Look Back

Candy's Room

The Ties That Bind

Streets Of Fire

Hungry Heart

We Take Care Of Our Own

Wrecking Ball

Death To My Hometown

My City Of Ruins

Spirit In The Night

Pretty Flamingo

Talk To Me

Adam Raised A Cain

Because The Night

She’s The One

Working on the Highway

Shackled and Drawn

Waiting on a Sunny Day

The Rising

Badlands

Land of Hope and Dreams

Encore:

Racing in the Street

Born To Run

Glory Days (With Joe and Johnny Gruschecky)

Light of Day (With Joe and Johnny Gruschecky)

Dancing in the Dark

Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out

Personal notes now... 

I love music,
 I can honestly say it's saved my life more than once.
 I've gone to many concerts but it takes a superior artist to make me emotionally react in public to live music...
at "Hungry Heart" I got teary eyed
at "Spirit In The Night" I was literally tears running down cheeks the whole song, 
by the time we hit "Waiting On A Sunny Day" I was done...
Done, 
Gone. 
Swept. Up.
 ...in the music and feeling and story and emotion. 
I was DONE. 
Springsteen is amazing live.
 If you have never seen him live you simply have NO IDEA what I mean. 
He isn't performing to a crowd of fans...

He's preaching from his pulpit to his congregation.  

He is the Minister...
His backup singers and amazing E Street Band the Choir,

and the Audience...

We are simply the followers... 
following every note, 
every lyric, 
every lick, 
every beat...

Begging for Rock n' Roll forgiveness...

And asking for more...
More...
MORE.

Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band live is 3 hours of REAL LIVE MUSIC. 
No Autotune, 
no fat old guys in suits writing your music, 
no nameless musicians playing "your" songs. 

No fake, 
No bullshit, 
No crap...

Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band is what music was, 
what it needs to be now, 
and what it always should be.


Forever and ever

Amen

Flogging Molly @ Stage AE. May 10, 2012

(Half-assed) Set List

Half assed because I cannot find a set list online, and I sure as hell wasn't going to interrupt my concert viewing to write/type it out during, so it's out of order, and I probably missed something (or added something...I don't have a photographic memory...)

Drunken Lullabies
Rebels of the Sacred Heart
The Son Never Shines (On Closed Doors)
The Powers Out
Oliver Boys (All Of Our Boys)
What's Left of the Flag
If I Ever leave This World Alive
Black Friday Rule
Devil's Dance Floor
Swagger
Float
Seven Deadly Sins
Requiem for a Dying Song
The Worst Day Since Yesterday
Whistles the Wind
Life in Tenement Square
The Likes of You Again
The Times They Are A Changin' (Bob Dylan Cover)

The 2nd opening act was awesome.
The Devil Makes Three. Sort of AltCountry,hillbilly,rockabilly,ragtimey goodness.
Check them out www.thedevilmakesthree.com

Foo Fighters: Wasting Light Tour Setlist, September 23, 2011 @ CONSOL Energy Center

Bridge Burning
Rope
The Pretender
My Hero
Learn to Fly
White Limo
Arlandria
Breakout
Cold Day in the Sun
Stacked Actors
Walk
Monkey Wrench
Let It Die
These Days
Skin and Bones
This is a Call
In the Flesh (Pink Floyd cover)
All My Life

Encore:
Long Road to Ruin (Acoustic)
Best of You (Acoustic)
Times Like These (Acoustic/Electric)
Dear Rosemary
Breakdown (Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers cover)
Tie Your Mother Down (Queen cover)
Everlong

U2 360 Tour Setlist. July 26, 2011 @ Heinz Field

Even Better Than The Real Thing
The Fly
Mysterious Ways
Until The End Of The World
I Will Follow
Get On Your Boots
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
Beautiful Day
Elevation
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Miss Sarajevo
Zooropa
City Of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
I'll Go Crazy / Discotheque
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Scarlet
Walk On

Encore:
One
Where The Streets Have No Name

Encore 2:
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
With Or Without You
Moment Of Surrender
Bad