Lana Del Rey
Terminal 5
October 24th

I don’t do festivals, cause I’m old and don’t want to stand around for 243992494 hours (sitting is a different story) or see my favorite artists play really short sets, and because of this insist-stance, I had never seen Lana Del Rey live, cause she only seemed to play festivals.  DAMN YOU FESTIVALS!!!  Well, Lana Del Rey finally set up some solo shows, and so I had to make it happen – and I did!

THIS woman with THAT beautific voice is a marvel to behold and be heard.  Odd then that at times she was singing along with her own recorded backing vocal.  Other times she wasn’t, and she sounded just as angelic.  LET THY VOICE FLY FREE BABY!!!! 

With a rockin backing band, she dropped love to 6 songs from her latest – Lust For Life – my favorites being ‘White Mustang‘ and ‘Cherry‘, while WE made love to the classics she bopped like ‘Blue Jeans’, and the song that gives us the opposite of sadness…

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Setlist 

 13 Beaches / Diet Mountain Dew / Cherry / Shades of Cool / Chelsea Hotel #2 (Leonard Cohen cover) / Pretty When You Cry / Blue Jeans / Born To Die / White Mustang / Lust for Life / Music to Watch Boys To / Change / Ride / Love / Video Games / Summertime Sadness / Off to the Races

Paul McCartney
One on One Tour
Barclays Center
September 19th

Dude, Paul McCartney!!  He was in The Beatles!!!  OK, we’ve been here before!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I’ll spare you the JOing over Paul, but Paul LIVES!!!!  And I’ll give him a pass for singling out Jimmy Fallon in the audience and wishing him a happy birthday, even though Jimmy Fallon sucks and doesn’t deserve to have anything celebrated

Anywho, last night was the first time I’ve ever heard any Beatle sing ‘All My Loving’ OR ‘I Wanna Be Your Man’ live!!!!  

OK, one more time…

PAUL MCCARTNEY WAS IN THE FCUKING BEATLES AND HE LIVES AND HE BREATHES AND YOU CAN BE IN THE SAME ROOM AS HIM AS HE DOES ALL OF THIS INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO SINGING BEATLES SONGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for being yourself Paul, and giving so much of yourself to the rest of us.  We are not worthy

Setlist – A Hard Day’s Night / Junior’s Farm / Can’t Buy Me Love / Jet / All My Loving / Let Me Roll It (followed by ‘Foxy Lady’ jam) / I’ve Got a Feeling / My Valentine / Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five / Maybe I’m Amazed / We Can Work It Out / In Spite of All the Danger / You Won’t See Me / Love Me Do / And I Love Her / Blackbird / Here Today / Queenie Eye / New / Lady Madonna / FourFiveSeconds / Eleanor Rigby / I Wanna Be Your Man / Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! / Something / A Day in the Life (with Give Peace a Chance snippet) / Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da / Band on the Run / Back in the U.S.S.R. / Let It Be / Live and Let Die / Hey Jude

Encore – Yesterday / Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) / Helter Skelter / Birthday / Happy Birthday to You / Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight / The End

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Roger Waters
Us + Them Tour
Barclays Center
September 11th

Not sure of Roger Waters’ stance on Jews, but I know he doesn’t like walls.  In fact, he wants them torn down.  Like the ones in Israel.  I can see his point.  Other Jews cannot.  So some Jews don’t like Roger Waters whatsoever

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I am not one of those Jews.  I hope that’s OK with the rest of you Jews.  If not, it’s your loss, cause dude, Roger Waters is the fcuking BEST!!

This was my 5th time seeing the rotten ole bastard.  First two times he did Dark Side in full, then the next two me saw him Wall build and destroy!  Where did he go from there, as in two nights ago?  The best of both + a new album (which is totally NOT awful!)  

Who knows if this will be his last tour or not.  You have to assume it’s the last time, and so you juss go and see him, again and again, and I will continue to do so.  So should JEW!

And dude, LOVE the bobbed hair babes!

but seriously Roger… look, I love your faux David Gilmour – David Gilmwitz, but can’t you and David bury the BS and juss reunite???  You don’t need the money, but there would be plenty.  Do it for us, or do it cause you hate Trump more than all of us (Jews and non-Jews and Jews who hate you) combined 

First Set – Speak to Me / Breathe / One of These Days / Time / Breathe (Reprise) / The Great Gig in the Sky / Welcome to the Machine / When We Were Young / Déjà Vu / The Last Refugee / Picture That / Wish You Were Here /The Happiest Days of Our Lives / Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 / Another Brick in the Wall Part 3

Second Set  –  Dogs / Pigs (Three Different Ones) / Money / Us and Them / Smell the Roses / Brain Damage / Eclipse

Encore – Vera /Bring the Boys Back Home / Comfortably Numb

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Eric Clapton
Madison Square Garden
September 7th

Was supposed to see Sir Eric back in 2009, as a part of the RnR HoF Anniversary Concerts, but he couldn’t make it for one reason or another, and I was left waiting.  And either I waited forever, or forgot about him, or something, or another thing, but then he announced that he was playing his ‘final’ concerts ever – a pair of shows in NY and another pair in LA, earlier this year.  Those tix went fast and left me waiting, again.  But then he was like, OK, me gonna do some more ‘final’ shows, same deal – pairs in NY & LA, and so this time I was able to make it happen, and that’s how I came to pray in front of the rock gawd that is Eric Clapton.  It was a pretty penny to pay, but I’d say worth all the pennies!

OK, so a lot of his best songs aren’t even his own, but he’s OUR hoochie coochie man!  He can shoot all the sheriffs he wants!  Even the deputies!!  Snort that Cocaine!!!  (him, not me).  And OK, he didn’t play the ONE song I REALLY wanted to hear (‘Let It Rain’), or even bothered to bother with ‘After Midnight’ (a song he’s shockingly has only played 200ish+ times), but dude, when he broke out ‘White Room’, OH MY FCUKING LORD, was I CREAMing all over myself!!!

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Setlist – Somebody’s Knocking / Key to the Highway / I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man / I Shot the Sheriff / Driftin’ Blues / Lay Down Sally / Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out / Layla / Tears in Heaven / White Room / Wonderful Tonight / Cross Road Blues / Little Queen of Spades / Cocaine

Encore – Sunshine of Your Love/ Before You Accuse Me w(ith Jimmie Vaughn & Gary Clark Jr)

man, he was so wonderful that night.  if only I had a woman to dance with

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Phish
The Baker’s Dozen – Night 13
Madison Square Garden
August 6th

After being shocked and awed by Phish’s coconutty first night of their Baker’s Dozen run at MSG, I was ready for them and I to go to infinity and beyond in their 13th and final show  

Before the concert, I huddled up with my 3 diehard Phishead buddies and we all guessed as to what they were going to play.  The final flavor/theme was pink glazed donuts with rainbow sprinkles.  I had no idea what songs of their own that they would play (cause I only know like 5 of them), but I had some ideas of what themed songs that I hoped they would play

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By day I’m your humble TM, but by night I’m MP, and MP’s guesses were… garbage sauce, but I really did wish they played what I guessed, and that they didn’t, or anywhere near that was actually kinda disappointing.  Sure, the boys played Bowie and the Stones and Willie Nelson, and a bunch of songs that made the faithful happy, but I really thought they were going to tear the roof off in the final night.  I mean, they did, but I just think they could have gone bigger.  Like play the Pretty In Pink soundtrack in reverse order, or something else that would be out of their comfort zone, and perhaps a little more Junior Senior-y

Still, it was the best Phish show I ever went to, but not for the music.  I me enjoyed myself cause I was with these three fellas who love Phish so much, but not as much as I love them

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Set One – Dogs Stole Things / Rift / Ha Ha Ha / Camel Walk / Crazy Sometimes / Saw It Again / Sanity / Bouncing Around the Room / Most Events Aren’t Planned / Bug / I Been Around / Izabella (Jimi Hendrix cover)

Set Two – Simple / Come Together / Starman (David Bowie cover) / You Enjoy Myself / Loving Cup (The Rolling Stones cover)

Encore - On the Road Again (Willie Nelson cover) / Tweezer Reprise

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