{"id":1476,"date":"2020-08-13T22:32:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T06:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2020-08-14T08:41:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T16:41:42","slug":"a-year-of-music-revisisted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/?p=1476","title":{"rendered":"A year of Music (revisisted)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I finally got around to try and document the concerts I saw in 2018-2019. I am sure I missed a number of bands as there were over 70 of them. I started the year with buying some tickets at Sycuan casino. They have a wonderful venue with a very intimate settings. The price is very affordable, so I ended up buying 8 concerts. Through the year, more concerts popped up and I found myself seeing more bands in one year than I have my entire life combined. I really miss going to concerts. I sure hope we can soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a list of some of the bands I was lucky enough to see:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Air Supply &#8211; As good as I remember<br \/>Alabama &#8211; Mountain Music is fantastic<br \/>Allman Brothers &#8211; This was my favorite concert of all times<br \/>Blue Oyster Cult &#8211; Saw them twice, no fear<br \/>Barry Manilow &#8211; Man he can put on a show<br \/>Berlin &#8211; Teri is my freshman college crush.<br \/>Britney Spears &#8211; I paid for a lip sync&#8217;d concert<br \/>Cher &#8211; Her final, final, final tour. <br \/>Chicago &#8211; Saturday in the theater<br \/>Def Leppard &#8211; OMG the bass was fantastic!<br \/>Dropkick Murphys &#8211; The boys are back in Irvine<br \/>Flogging Molly &#8211; 1st time seeing them, mosh pits, what?<br \/>Foreigner &#8211; Excellent Concert, horrible venue.<br \/>Frankie Valli &#8211; It took 2 songs to warm up, but you still got it!<br \/>Gwen Stefani &#8211; What a sweet escape this was.<br \/>Journey &#8211; The new lead singer was fantastic<br \/>Little River Band &#8211; No lonesome losers here. <br \/>Loverboy &#8211; We worked for the weekend to see them<br \/>Mannheim Steamroller &#8211; Birthday concert<br \/>Marshall Tucker Band &#8211; We could see!<br \/>Modern English &#8211; We melted with them<br \/>Night Ranger &#8211; Eddie really came out that night<br \/>Oakridge Boys &#8211; My best friend got to sing Elvira. <br \/>Peter Frampton &#8211; Angie got to learn what a Talk Box was<br \/>Pink &#8211; The most amazing singing aerobatics I have ever seen<br \/>Quiet Riot &#8211; Great new songs, but the old songs sounded horrible.<br \/>REO Speedwagon &#8211; What a band to surrender to.<br \/>Styx &#8211; They finally sang Mr. Roboto!<br \/>Tony Orlando &#8211; Wow, who knew how many jingles he wrote. <br \/>Warrant &#8211; Some Cherry Pie for dessert. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got around to try and document the concerts I saw in 2018-2019. 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