The biggest news of this weekend, for rock fans, is that tickets will go on sale Saturday for the Dec. 12 Arco Arena show by Nine Inch Nails. Join the Prince of Darkness and his band for some blistering, alienated, and insanely CATCHY angst....
Otherwise, there are several big name concerts this weekend, none of which I'm at all excited about. But that's life in the medium-sized city. But before getting to those, I'd like to give a pitch for a couple of smaller-time bands that are more human scale and musically interesting - if you're into that sort of thing (and most people are not):
One is Scott Amendola, a terrific jazz drummer who will be playing with guitarist Jeff Parker of the wonderfully indescribable instrumental ensemble Tortoise, from Chicago. They'll be at The Palms Playhouse in Winters Friday night. Here's a rather rough clip of Amendola's band...skip ahead a minute or two to get into the meat of it...
The other is a band I'd never heard of before - Clutch, a great name - but they're playing Harlow's tomorrow (Thursday) night. Judging from this video, their blues-metal might be well worth checking out.
OK, so the same night features one of those big ol' names, Old Boys on the Block, a reunion tour of the New Kids from way back when. That's Thursday at Arco. Do YOU care? Really? OK, fair enough.
The other big name is old Skinny Boots herself, Celine Dion, who will be at Arco on Tuesday. MUST her heart go on? Oh, alright...
Of more interest to me is the Rockband Live Tour, which comes to Arco on Sunday. It's headlined by Panic! at the Disco, Plain White Ts and Dashboard Confessional - three of the bigger names in current alterna-pop.
Here's Panic! at the Disco:
And here's Dashboard Confessional, all acoustic:
For the old folks like me, there's In the Spirit of Lennon at The Palms Playhouse on Friday - it's an all-John Lennon covers show featuring Drew Harrison from the SF-based Beatles cover band The Sun Kings - because tomorrow (Thursday) would have been Lennon's 68th birthday. Here are the Sun Kings doing a Lennon song we've only heard played live by Bourgeois Tagg...
Elsewhere, reggae group Zion I is playing at Sac State on Monday.
And don't forget that this is Second Saturday, and this month will have a CLOWN PARADE (Halloween comes a bit early), a celebration of A-Gay Tina Reynold's 60th birthday. The parade is open to all and begins at 6 p.m. at the intersection of 17th and Capitol Avenue in downtown Sacramento. Proceeds benefit local children's charities. Visit www.sactownclownparade.org for details.
Speaking of Halloween, Burners will try to recapture a bit of the wild spirit of the Black Rock playa on Sunday, with this year's Decompression, in San Francisco. Visit www.burningman.com for details...
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DWB, you know I love ya but your blog has been reduced to a weekly posting of "Hot Ticket" style items. Come on, Mr. Barton! Give us some more of that insight and observations about the grid and greater Sacramento area, like you did in the beginning of this bloggy blog. And don't give us this "I don't have time" because we all know you're never short of things to say. :) Take care ...
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