Watch what happens

February 26, 2009 · Posted in Music, Music Business 

This is from Billboard Biz…

Classic rock fans will have an opportunity to tap into a recession-relieving concert with the 2009 Can’t Stop Rockin’ tour, featuring REO Speedwagon, Styx and 38 Special. Ticket prices will be available for as low as $13.50 in most markets.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know I poke fun a bit and under normal circumstances I would have titled this post “The Can’t Stop Wrinkle Rockin’ Tour”. But, the fact is, this is a case where the cats calling the shots got it extremely right.

Watch what happens, this tour is going to fill the sheds in a big way.

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4 Responses to “Watch what happens”

  1. Sans Direction on February 26th, 2009 8:43 pm

    My first live concert was REO w/ Survivor opening. In St. Louis. I forget the venue, but I remember us going to Steak and Shake afterward.

    Good bands with memorable songs. The crowds will be old, but as long as they don’t pull out the whole story of Kilroy, Dennis DeYoung, they should clean up.

  2. Pat Darnell and Friends on February 26th, 2009 11:55 pm

    Steak and Shake… good name, sometimes a little lame on the follow through at the place itself; probably depended on the locations of the restaurants.

    Late ’70′s I couldn’t tell my work associates from REO group members; re Oh, like hair, walk and attitude. Did “Ransom Eli Olds” invent power ballads? Did they all drive Olds 98′s [PHOTO]convertibles with arospeed exhaust? HUNHh!

    I would have loved to have gone to see them in the mid 70′s but I was in that double shift 16 hour a day mode of existence… pre marriage days. I should have taken a night out… SpeedWagon were extremely popular with north side Chicagoan in those days. I was invited to go several times to see them back then. But as I was in culture shock, having just arrived in Chicago from Luckenbach by way of Muskogee, I barely knew who REO and STYX were..

    Styx, now there’s a misnomer. The groups new name “Styx” was chosen because it was “the only one that none of us hated…” one of our standard urban logo legends… I have to ask: did all Midwest start up bands sing like they are in subway stairwells? Did they all start out buskin Ravenswood Station around all that tile and steel? And btw, anyone know something about Ravenswood Loft stories… ?

    Standing by, pdnf

  3. Pribek on February 27th, 2009 4:15 am

    Steak and Shake, good point.
    Summertime, go to a rock show, dance on the grass, sing along with every song then go to Steak and Shake. I think think people like doing stuff like that. $13.50 for the concert and, hey you could do that.

  4. Pribek on February 27th, 2009 4:43 am

    p.s. no Ravenswood Loft stories…hip, trendy North Shore discotheque, something like that?

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