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JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Postgame Concert Series, 2013

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Feb 28 2013 11:56 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Mar 01 2013 03:29 PM

The Friday night concert series returns this season. Upgraded? Upgraded. • Foreigner, June 14 (after a game with the Chicago Cubs) • Nas (!), July 19 (Philadelphia Phillies) • O.A.R., Aug. 2 (Kansas City Royals) • Third Eye Blind, Aug. 23 (Detroit Tigers) I've got illmatic tickets for 7/19 already.

Gwreck Feb 28 2013 12:09 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Concert Series, 2013

That's Queens native and life-long Mets fan Nas. I just might go to that one.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 28 2013 12:15 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Concert Series, 2013

Foreigner touring with fake vocalist these days. I don't get the whole O.A.R. thing.

Edgy MD Feb 28 2013 12:24 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Concert Series, 2013

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Foreigner touring with fake vocalist these days. He's a Foreigner foreigner! They're fucking playing head games with us!

metirish Feb 28 2013 12:28 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Concert Series, 2013

He sounds scarily like the real singer...it's weird..... I wonder if they tailor the performers to the opponents?

metsguyinmichigan Feb 28 2013 01:34 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Concert Series, 2013

Seems like kind of a step down for O.A.R., no?

John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 28 2013 01:55 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Concert Series, 2013

metirish wrote: He sounds scarily like the real singer...it's weird..... eh. Foreigner IMO is the worst sort of dinosaur rock hanger-oners. One original member left, and it's not the singer, but they live off those guys accomplishments, going as far as to re-record all their parts for pointless "Greatest Hits" collections that don't replace the originals but compete with them for (mostly virtual) shelf space. In the meantime they record new stuff but make it exclusively for sale at Wal-Mart, so you know they are preying on the poor and stupid more than usual. All that said you'll prolly find me with a bic lighter standing on the dugout. DAMN YOU FOREIGNER.

Edgy MD Feb 28 2013 02:03 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Concert Series, 2013

>>> "How does it feel, JCL?" >>> "LIKE THE FIRST TIME!" /wicked squinty-faced air guitar flourish

Edgy MD Feb 28 2013 02:08 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Concert Series, 2013

The Foreigner Crimeline: Boring but necessary factoid to know: The band chose the name "Foeigner" because the band had both multiple Brits and some Americans. Looks like it became the Mick and Lou Show pretty early on. I'm curious about that Jack Allen Smith era.

Ashie62 Feb 28 2013 02:10 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Concert Series, 2013

Touring later in their careers is a retirement plan of sorts for the dinosaurs..

Vic Sage Feb 28 2013 03:04 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Concert Series, 2013

the band was Jones, McDonald and Gramm. They did the first 3 albums together, which were all huge and contain almost all the good songs in their inventory. The 4th album ("4") happened after Jones tossed McDonald out so he (with Gramm) could write all the songs. It has some big songs, too, but was softer and mushier than its predecessors. Though they had a few more hits in later years ("I want to know what love is"), not a single note they wrote or played after "4" in 1981 is worth listening to again. That's about 30 years of them being basically a FOREIGNER cover band. Even the most generous definition of the band as basically being Jones & Gramm would date the group's demise as 2002. I don't know what the carcass is that calls itself FOREIGNER now other than Jones' glorified solo project with hired hands brought on to give hollow renditions of former glories. as for touring as a retirement plan for dinosaur bands, these groups used to be able to live off their music libraries, but with digital piracy basically undermining the industry and destroying the market, so bands find they have to tour to live. Others live to tour, and would be on the road regardless.

Edgy MD Feb 28 2013 04:17 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Concert Series, 2013

Well, the trick then would be for the actual musicians to tour, but I imagine the frontmen/brand owners have little great motivation to welcome back the old bandmates who bring relatively little brand association in exchange for the bigger paycheck. The friggen Eagles kicked out Don Felder after a million years as recently as 2002 when they decided he wasn't needed to sell the brand. "Let them eat residuals," says Don. The real retirement plan is to get your damn back catalog into car commercials or Joseph Gordon-Levitt movies.

Ashie62 Feb 28 2013 04:24 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Concert Series, 2013

Less original members divides into the check better.

Edgy MD Feb 28 2013 04:32 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Concert Series, 2013

Yes, that's sort of exactly what I'm saying.

Frayed Knot Feb 28 2013 06:31 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Concert Series, 2013

One of the advantages in breaking up and then later reforming 'The Eagles' --well, an advantage if your name was either Glenn Frey or Don Henley anyway-- was that Frey & Henley were able to re-set the parameters of the band to where they got the biggest bulk of the money generated by the band's second act, something that was in direct contrast to the dynamic in many new bands where the 'we're all in this together'/equal partners type of brotherhood tends to dominate. That chart shows 'Foreigner' as going through more drummers than Spinal Tap.

Edgy MD Feb 28 2013 07:43 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Concert Series, 2013

And nothing says that rumored Led Zeppelin reunion tour just ain't happenin' like Jason Bonham going on tour with bloody Foreigner for half a decade.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Feb 28 2013 08:02 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Concert Series, 2013

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Seems like kind of a step down for O.A.R., no? Really? Of the four here, without research, I'd say that O.A.R. had the shortest/lowest commercial peak/audience-size peak.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 28 2013 09:09 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Concert Series, 2013

Mick Jones gets big gigs after Mets games. The Lou Gramm Band is playing honkey-tonks in Reno. And eating all the Foreigner drummers, looks like. [youtube:25fzys3q]qEWVwynKK3M[/youtube:25fzys3q]

bmfc1 Mar 01 2013 05:45 AM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Concert Series, 2013

How many people stay after a game for concerts?

Ceetar Mar 01 2013 05:47 AM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Concert Series, 2013

bmfc1 wrote: How many people stay after a game for concerts? not a lot. and it's not like Citi Field was designed acoustically.

metsmarathon Mar 01 2013 06:45 AM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Concert Series, 2013

Ceetar wrote: bmfc1 wrote: How many people stay after a game for concerts? not a lot. and it's not like Citi Field was designed acoustically. it wasn't exactly designed for baseball either. sorry, too easy

Farmer Ted Mar 01 2013 06:57 AM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Concert Series, 2013

I just got an email blast notifying me that I can one of the first to have the privilege of buying tickets for... wait for it... wait for it... wait for it... Bob Segar and the Silver Bullet Band. It's like I'm in 1983 all over again.

Frayed Knot Mar 01 2013 07:08 AM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Concert Series, 2013

Or, as it's known now, Bob Seger and the Silver Hair Band.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 01 2013 07:21 AM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Concert Series, 2013

I'm going to that game. When is it?

MFS62 Mar 01 2013 07:32 AM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Concert Series, 2013

Why isn't this thread in the Non-Baseball Forum? Later

Edgy MD Mar 01 2013 07:58 AM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Concert Series, 2013

Because rockin' out after a baseball game is baseball-related. Seger, I'm buying.

seawolf17 Mar 01 2013 09:00 AM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Concert Series, 2013

I'm thinking Mr. Seger needs to wear shirts with sleeves.

Gwreck Mar 01 2013 01:05 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Concert Series, 2013

Except Bob Seger is not playing a free show after a baseball game. If you want to see him, you will need to buy a ticket to his show in Brooklyn on April 16. (Or wherever else he's playing this tour). I saw him at the Garden in 2007. Fun show but an audience filled with people who crawled out of the Seventies for the evening.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 01 2013 01:27 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Concert Series, 2013

Yeah, I was afraid Bob had kept himself off the after-baseball-free-concert circuit. I guess it had to do with Tom Cruise's undies and Chevy Trucks.

G-Fafif Mar 01 2013 01:37 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Concert Series, 2013

Gwreck wrote: Fun show but an audience filled with people who crawled out of the Seventies for the evening. Picturing Bruce Boisclair holding a cigarette lighter aloft for "Mainstreet".

Gwreck Mar 01 2013 03:34 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Postgame Concert Series, 2013

Surprisingly accurate description, that.

Edgy MD Mar 01 2013 08:49 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Concert Series, 2013

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Mick Jones gets big gigs after Mets games. The Lou Gramm Band is playing honkey-tonks in Reno. And eating all the Foreigner drummers, looks like. [youtube]qEWVwynKK3M[/youtube] That clip should seriously be the new RickRoll.

G-Fafif Jun 13 2013 06:16 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Postgame Concert Series, 2013

Bump. Or any dance you like when you're hot blooded.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 13 2013 07:07 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Postgame Concert Series, 2013

Gotta coach Little League tomorrow or I'd be there on the double (vision).

G-Fafif Jun 13 2013 07:26 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Postgame Concert Series, 2013

Tentatively going with a pal who I don't think is predisposed to hang around to extend his blue morning, blue day deep into the blue night. But it will be tough to be there and not wait for a show like this.

Mets – Willets Point Jun 14 2013 08:10 AM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Postgame Concert Series, 2013

Free concerts after a baseball game? WTF Mets? Couldn't you get someone better than Foreigner? Maybe you could've spent that money on an outfielder who can hit.

Ceetar Jun 14 2013 08:13 AM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Postgame Concert Series, 2013

Citi Field acoustics suck btw, for concerts anyway.

Gwreck Jun 14 2013 02:08 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Postgame Concert Series, 2013

It's the quality of the sound system, not the acoustics. A free post-game concert with a hastily-assembled stage and PA system is unlikely to sound good. McCartney in 2009 sounded good, mostly because they were using a world-class system and had four days to set up for the show.

Edgy MD Jun 14 2013 02:20 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Postgame Concert Series, 2013

Out in the street it's 6 a.m. Another sleepless night Three cups of coffee, but I can't clear my head From what went down last night No we won't have our own little ways But somehow we keep it together You hear me talk, you don't hear what I say I guess it don't even matter

Frayed Knot Jun 14 2013 02:32 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Postgame Concert Series, 2013

Mets – Willets Point wrote: Free concerts after a baseball game? WTF Mets? Couldn't you get someone better than Foreigner? Neither Loverboy or Journey were available.

Edgy MD Jun 14 2013 02:47 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Postgame Concert Series, 2013

Journey > Foreigner Loverboy, probably not > Foreigner

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 14 2013 02:52 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Postgame Concert Series, 2013

Yeah, Journey for whatever reason is above doing post-Mets-game concerts, while Loverboy is below that level. Foreigner. Just right for 45 minutes of free entertainment in a major city.

Edgy MD Jun 14 2013 03:00 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Postgame Concert Series, 2013

Wondering where Loverboy has been playing this month? [list]5/31/2013 Windsor, ON Beaverfest 6/08/2013 Syracuse, NY Taste of Syracuse 6/15/2013 Laughlin, NV AVI Resort and Casino 6/22/2013 Petaluma, CA Sonoma-Marin Fair 6/23/2013 Pleasonton, CA Alameda County Fair 6/28/2013 Omaha, NE Memorial Park 6/29/2013 Las Vegas, NV Cannery Casino[/list:u] May 31st isn't technically this month, but I couldn't resist Beaverfest and neither could you.

Swan Swan H Jun 14 2013 03:12 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Postgame Concert Series, 2013

Wondering where Loverboy has been playing this month? [list]5/31/2013 Windsor, ON Beaverfest [/list:u] May 31st isn't technically this month, but I couldn't resist Beaverfest and neither could you. Have you tried their official snack food?

dinosaur jesus Jun 14 2013 04:17 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Postgame Concert Series, 2013

And when the tour bus is low on gas . . . Canadians.

Zvon Jun 14 2013 04:32 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Postgame Concert Series, 2013

My band in the late 70's was named Split Beaver. We were big in Canada.

Frayed Knot Jun 14 2013 05:51 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Postgame Concert Series, 2013

Edgy MD wrote: Journey > Foreigner In the same way that taking a hammer to your foot is better than taking one to your hands.

d'Kong76 Jun 14 2013 07:18 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Postgame Concert Series, 2013

How come they can't get the Bay City Rollers for a post game concert?

Edgy MD Jun 14 2013 07:31 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Postgame Concert Series, 2013

Frayed Knot wrote: Journey > Foreigner In the same way that taking a hammer to your foot is better than taking one to your hands. Haters gotta hate. There isn't really a currently active version of the Rollers. But Les McKoewn is fronting something he calls Les McKoewn's Bay City Rollers (which, on the other hand, probably is no less authentic than Mick Jones' current incarnation of Foreigner). Dates in June [list]Sat Jun 15 Town Hall Glaisnock Street Cumnock, Cumnock, Scotland Sun Jun 23 Whitehaven Festival, UK[/list:u] No stateside gigs listed for 2013, I'm sorry to say. I'll keep you up to date, though.

G-Fafif Jun 15 2013 01:19 AM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Postgame Concert Series, 2013 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 15 2013 08:57 AM

Foreigner rocked several thousand of us, which should reassure lead singer Kelly Hansen (or HANSEN 10, per his blue Mets jersey), who seemed anxious about ascertaining whether we were ready to rock. He was still asking with minutes to go in the hourlong set. "Head Games" > Met games, at least the one that preceded the concert. Kelly made mention of us being in the "bleachers" with our "pretzels and hot dogs" as prelude to slowing it down with "Waiting For A Girl Like You," a ballad for which there was no need to put down any pretzels and hot dogs. (Concessions remained open for Foreigner's show, though not for the Mets-Marlins 20-inning jam.) Mick Jones, freshly inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, crawled out of his deathbed (or so Kelly made it sound) to help us rock on "Feels Like The First Time," and a few other numbers. Mick has liver spots on his forehead, but is gonna keep rockin', he just can't stop. "Jeff from Foreigner" at one point during the game exhorted us from in front of the buffet in the Hyundai Club to chant "Go Mets," and then "Let's Go Mets". A patron behind him was choosing from among entrees as he was getting us psyched. They performed a nice national anthem. The American national anthem, in case you were wondering, what given their Foreign-ness. Thom Gimbel did Junior Walker's sax intro proud on "Urgent". Drummer Chris Frazier ominously thumped us into a town without a name, in a heavy downpour on "Juke Box Hero". During "Cold As Ice," CitiVision forgot to flash images of John Buck. Our participation was requested on "I Wanna Know What Love Is," though not for the part about heartache and pain, which seemed most apropos considering Kelly addressing us as "METS FANS!" throughout the show. (There was a sizable helping of Cubs fans on hand who presumably rocked.) "Hot Blooded" ended the festivities because how're you supposed to follow that? Tight, well-crafted, polished, save for a moment of feedback which a visibly annoyed Kelly addressed with "we're gonna get rid of that feedback." Better a postgame concert than the usual postgame "ohmigod, I just spent three hours watching the Mets sleepwalk to another dismal loss" recriminations. Those waited for the ride home. Foreigner: Not an enterprise I ever loved nor an enterprise I ever disliked. They were just always around as I made my way from junior high to high school to college. So was Craig Swan. Shaun Marcum's a terrible opening act.

Edgy MD Jun 15 2013 06:32 AM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Postgame Concert Series, 2013

That's a heckuva summation. The only thing that feels distinctly not-very-big-league about the proceedings is turning a semi-counterfeit band member "Jeff" into the official cheerleader for a team he''s probably not very familiar with. I imagine he had the same role with the Akron Aeros three nights ago. GarRonKei could not say enough about how good the national anthem was ("Best of the year") during one of the innings when they couldn't say much about anything else I had forgotten that was Junior Walker on "Urgent." That was a pretty inventive nu wave solo for an old rhythm and blues guy.

Ashie62 Jun 15 2013 04:51 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Postgame Concert Series, 2013

Say what we will, but Foreigner had more than their share of hits. Now get the dang Rollers in...On a Saturday night...

G-Fafif Jun 16 2013 05:42 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Postgame Concert Series, 2013

I had forgotten that was Junior Walker on "Urgent." That was a pretty inventive nu wave solo for an old rhythm and blues guy. Junior's version, for Desperately Seeking Susan soundtrack: [youtube]Qjt1AQli-P0[/youtube]

Edgy MD Jun 16 2013 09:24 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Postgame Concert Series, 2013

Strange bedfellows all over that record. Mutt Lange producing. Thomas Dolby on keys.

Frayed Knot Jul 12 2013 07:01 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Postgame Concert Series, 2013

Tampa Bay has a [u:13575hu4]KC + the Sunshine Band[/u:13575hu4] post-game show on their schedule.

Edgy MD Jul 13 2013 07:24 AM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Postgame Concert Series, 2013

Lucky sods.

Mets – Willets Point Jul 13 2013 12:23 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Postgame Concert Series, 2013

Edgy MD wrote: Lucky sods. Give it up.

Frayed Knot Jul 26 2013 06:57 PM Re: JUKEBOX HEROES: CitiField Postgame Concert Series, 2013

Nationals advertising upcoming post-game shows by Gavin DeGraw and Sammy Hagar (not on the same night).