Drivin N Cryin at 37 Main

Yes 37 Main in Johns Creek has finally opened with Divin N Cryin rocking the opening nite festivities!  The band channelled Led Zeppelin through Lynryd Skynyrd and the jam packed crowd loved it.  What a great facility 37 Main is too.  One side a large bar with dueling pianos, the other a great rock hall with a fabulous sound system!

Bruuuuuuuuce!

The Boss and the E Street Band came to Lakewood and it was a River of rock!  The legendary Springsteen and the E-Streeters tore thru almost three hours of music opening with the Clash and not stopping til the final encores of Shout and Highway to Hell!

Springsteen played one of his most epic Atlanta dates on a beautiful spring evening.  He started by saying "the river, the river, the river" and his nine songs from that iconic 80's album were the most he's played from it in years.  Selections for Darkness, Wrecking Ball, High Hopes (Tom Morello on guitar rules!) and of course Born to Run rounded out a raucous tour thru that rock and roll river.  

Bruce proved it all nite, that tramps like us, baby we were born to run!

Steve Hackett's Genesis Revisited Tour at Symphony Hall

The great Steve Hackett came to Symphony Hall for a two hour non-stop prog rock feast.  Playing every era of Genesis, Steve and his expert band rocked it all.  From Musical Box to Supper's Ready through Los Endos, Hackett showed why he is one of rock's greatest!

Crosby, Stills and Nash at the Fox

The sixties returned to the Fox and of course Rockman was there with his partner in crime Mr. Jimmy!  Great long show from CSN who don't hit those high notes all the time, but get em when they need em!

They played for almost three hours mixing up the classics with a bunch of eclectic solo stuff particularly from David Crosby's new album, Cros.

Graham was great and Steven Stills remains one of the greatest guitar players alive!

They finished super strongwith Almost Cut My Hair, Wooden Ships and a rare Suite Judy Blue Eyes!

Next up Steve Hackett the guitarist from Genesis plays Genesis Revisited as Symphony Hall.

See ya at the show!

It's 2014 and Rockman is back...Ratdog at the Tabernacle!

Sorry fans got, a bit worn out from last year's 30 concerts/30 rounds of golf.  But I'm back for 2014 to share the rock with you as finally the snow is gone and the rock is on!

Kicked it off with Bob Weir and Ratdog reprising the greatest of the Grateful Dead last nite at the Tabernacle.  The young and the old (including yours truly) were out last nite for the final show of Ratdog's spring tour and it was one of the best set lists of the tour!

Some serious guitar power chords like Pink Floyd meets Lynyrd Skynyrd!

Set 1:

Help on the Way
Slipknot
Don't Let Go
She Belongs to Me
Lazy River Road
Little Red Rooster
Ashes and Glass
Promised Land


Set 2:

Peggy-O
Victim or the Crime
THE WEIGHT
Samson and Delilah
Terrapin Station 
The Other One
Space
MORNING DEW
Sugar Magnolia

Encore:

Broekdown Palace (Fare thee well…)

A very tight first set with a blazing dueling slide guitars on Little Red Rooster

The second set was insane:

Terrapin (of course this is Atlanta) into the Other One into Space into Morning Dew into Sugar Magnolia, crazy.. .ATL got one of the best set lists on the tour!

Onward to CSN at the Fox next Saturday!

2013...It's On!!!

Rockman is back and ready to go in 2013!  The first foray into the fray was last nite at the Tabernacle for the long awaited return of Keane!

Tom Chaplin is one of the purest singers alive and he let it all hang out last nite in a hundred minute show that covered all of Keane's best.

The rest of the band were epic with fabulous keys, drums and bass propelling Keane to the rafters of the Tabernacle.  What a fabulous start to 2013 for Rockman and his crew of Sneppisito, Mark Z and Garito!

 Next up Dweezil Zappa and Gaelic Storm at the Variety next week. 
See you at the 2013 shows!

The Musical Box and The Lamb

For the 45th and final concert of Rockman's record breaking 2012, I returned with the Silver Medalist Mark Snepp (a brilliant 16 shows) to the Variety Playhouse  for the Musical Box's Genesis approved recreation of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway!

The Box did a stunning performance of The Lamb using Genesis's original slides and costumes from the 1973 Lamb tour.

It was so great that this was my second time this year to see this great show.  Let's hope they come back with Foxtrot and Selling England By The Pound!


Time for Rockman to rest and to celebrate the holidays.  It was great going to the show with all of you this year and special congrats to our Bronze Medalist Don with Honorable Mentions to Mark Z, Jon, Jeremy and Roger for mutiple nites of madness!  Also special thanks to all the good people who provided me with seats including Brian, Brandon, Jimmy and Bernie and anybody else who made this amazing year happen. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to all. See ya at the show...